As the VMworld 2010 conference gets underway this week in San Francisco, players in the world of virtualization will be taking another read on the impact of upstart Microsoft on the incumbent VMware ...

Looking at making the jump over to Hyper-V to avoid dropping 6 kilobucks for vmware essentials plus just to allow me to do shared nothing live migrations and manage all of my hosts from a single pane ...

IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

VMWare also has a significant number of features a lot of their customers never use and yet still pay for. In my mind VMWare remains the 800lb gorilla in the enterprise virtualization space (and for ...

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 ...

Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization software.

When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two ...

Microsoft is the new competitor in the virtualization market, but executives outlined some of the reasons they think the company can dominate it during a Microsoft virtualization event in Bellevue, ...