Microsoft on Thursday formally announced the beta of Windows Server 8, which was made available for download and testing on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2012
The day-one general session keynote at VMware Partner Exchange 2012, taking place this week in Las Vegas, began with a relatively low-key presentation to partners, but ended with a serious discussion about upcoming technology and strategy.
- By Bruce Hoard
- February 14, 2012
Dell has announced the new vStart 200 server, a new hardware product that can host up to 200 virtual machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2012
Microsoft talked more about storage options in Windows 8 on Thursday, promising a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with the operating system's New Technology File System (NTFS).
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2012
Parallels announced Thursday the addition of three senior executives, including a Microsoft technical fellow, to support the cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization company's global growth goals.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2011
Microsoft spent some time at last week's Build conference to spotlight how five of its major partners -- Cisco, NEC, 5nine, Broadcom and inMon -- are already using the extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 2011
Day 2 of Microsoft's Build conference turned part of the spotlight on the company's next-generation server technology, code-named "Windows Server 8."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2011
Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor will be a part of the forthcoming Windows 8 client operating system, Microsoft announced on Wednesday in a Building Windows 8 blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 07, 2011
The rivalry between Microsoft and VMware over the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure has intensified.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2011
Microsoft signed an interoperability and legal agreement on Tuesday with China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) as part of a Linux server partnership deal. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011
Red Hat Linux operating systems running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor now have continued interoperability support, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2011
Microsoft has added cloud assessment capabilities, including the ability to assess if a computing environment is ready to migrate to Office 365, to the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0), which became generally available on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2011
Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is now available for download by Microsoft partners with silver and gold competencies in desktop and virtualization specialties.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
The community evaluation program (CEP) for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012) beta began accepting signups on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2011
Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 20, 2011
There are broad-based products and there are niche products, but Kemp Technologies' latest product, unveiled this week at Tech-Ed, is a product that's aiming for a niche within a niche.
- By Lee Pender
- May 18, 2011
Microsoft has announced improvements to Exchange 2010 that are designed to avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 16, 2011
Virtualization giant and cloud vendor VMware announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for servers and desktops.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 16, 2011
According to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday, the company's Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors, formerly code-named "Sandy Bridge."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Which components of Microsoft's 350-strong product portfolio are the most important to its partners' businesses? To find the answer, we asked the partners themselves -- over 500 of them -- to pick the 10 they and their customers can't go without.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2011