With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...

Until recently, when it came to complex datacenter virtualization tasks, most enterprises have turned to VMware Inc. tools. Lately, though, many have questioned whether Hyper-V is a viable alternative ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

Microsoft is making its case against VMware ESXi 5.0 for hypervisor superiority, with a bevy of features that include its upcoming Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 ability to scale up to higher physical ...

Microsoft and VMware are in pitched battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project? There's a lot to like in both Windows Server ...

One of the tech industry’s fiercest battles has Microsoft playing the underdog against a dominant leader in market share—but the battle we’re thinking of has absolutely nothing to do with smartphones ...

VMware may be in a hypervisor war with Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat, but it also finds itself in a battle over virtualization management control. Third-party vendors have been evolving their ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and ...