The release candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available for public testing, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2009
Web hosting specialist and Microsoft shop MaximumASP went looking for a virtualization solution. After evaluating the field, the Gold Certified Partner ended up sticking with Microsoft for a new virtual hosting business.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 01, 2009
First Look: Book by Gold Certified Partner provides a good starting point for building a virtualization practice.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2009
Company plans to roll out iTunes-like interface where end users can access corporate applications.
- By Lee Pender
- June 01, 2009
A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2009
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