Microsoft continued its foray into unified communications (UC) with an announcement last week of support for a virtualized topology in Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 (OCS R2).
- By Herb Torrens
- May 19, 2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2009
ISVs provide the critical tools and applications that complete Microsoft solutions. Microsoft Tech-Ed is traditionally where many of those vendors announce their next products.
- By Lee Pender
- May 01, 2009
The release candidate (RC) of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, can be downloaded today by Microsoft TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2009
Windows XP Mode, a feature designed to help small businesses migrate to Windows 7, will be available as a beta for download on April 30.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2009
Concerns about the security implications of evolving cloud computing technologies dominated last week's annual RSA Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- April 28, 2009
Is there really a performance difference between hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix? We put them under a microscope and stress-tested them for days to find out the answer.
- By Rick Vanover
- April 27, 2009
Microsoft provided a couple of Windows 7 tidbits on Friday, confirming the availability of Windows 7 release candidate (RC) and describing a forthcoming virtualization capability in the new operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2009
At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, there is an increasingly strong impetus to virtualize IT environments.
- By William Jackson
- April 23, 2009
Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure.
- By Keith Ward
- April 21, 2009
On April 21, VMware will take the wraps off of vSphere, the next generation of its infrastructure suite currently known as VMware Infrastructure.
- By Keith Ward
- April 17, 2009
A key Microsoft team member involved with the modular design of Microsoft's server farms has joined another company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2009
The first version of Microsoft's desktop virtualization tool was announced last week.
- By Jim Barthold
- April 09, 2009
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution.
- By David Nagel
- April 08, 2009
VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It's so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can't
meet that goal.
- By Keith Ward
- April 06, 2009
A roundup of green alternatives in the virtualization space.
- By Keith Ward
- April 01, 2009
Find out which third-party programs your peers say sell better together with Microsoft solutions.
- By RCP Staff
- April 01, 2009
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 25, 2009
Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, a major update to the company's virtualization management suite.
- By David Nagel
- March 25, 2009
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
- By Keith Ward
- March 16, 2009