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Citrix aims to save Hyper-V from disasters
News Citrix has rolled out disaster recovery features for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, ahead of a planned introduction of the same features for its own XenServer hypervisor next year. The feature is being introduced ahead of an equivalent version for...
[December 17, 2009, 10:40]
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 review
Reviews Also, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) has also been updated to provide cross-server management tools for both R2 implementations, with identical functionality regardless of whether you're using the full hypervisor or the...
[November 25, 2009, 10:00]
Tech events that are shaping Microsoft's future
Articles But that said, if you look at [analyst firm] IDC figures, you'll find we have about 20 percent of the hypervisor market and we'll double that in the next 12 to 18 months. Bob Kelly is a Microsoft executive with a wide remit that takes in...
[November 9, 2009, 14:21]
Hypervisor, Virtualization Stack, and Device Virtualization Architectures
White Papers The presentation presents an architectural overview of the three pillars of Microsoft Windows virtualization: the hypervisor, the virtualization stack, and device virtualization. This presentation provides an overview of the powerful new...
[November 9, 2009, 3:35]
Red Hat boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio
News Red Hat has released new components in its enterprise virtualisation portfolio, including a standalone hypervisor and management platform for servers. Availability of the Virtualisation Hypervisor and Virtualisation Manager for Servers products was...
[November 4, 2009, 16:09]
VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugs
News In April, Oracle announced its intention to buy Sun for $7.4bn (£4.5bn), and followed that purchase a month later with the acquisition of Virtual Iron, a maker of virtualisation products based on the Xen hypervisor.
[November 2, 2009, 8:12]
What Microsoft understands about virtualisation (and a problem for VMware)
Blog Comment VMware's tooling only supports direct management of the host hypervisor and managed deployment of VMs - so you'll need additional tooling for any client OS/application management. I'd suggest that things aren't quite that cut and dried, Manek.
[October 30, 2009, 8:27]
A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
White Papers This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this...
[October 30, 2009, 2:24]
VMware vSphere 4 review
Reviews The vSphere hypervisor can be purchased in four different editions (Standard, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus); there's also a free downloadable version, called ESXi. Which version? We found vSphere easy to deploy and even easier to use.
[October 27, 2009, 14:30]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News Trend Micro's Deep Security 7.0, announced on Monday for availability in November, is one of the first to use VMware's VMsafe API, which allows security technology to be integrated directly into the hypervisor.
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
Microsoft, Red Hat kick off mixed virtualisation
News The move was first announced in February, when the companies said they intended to validate and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, as well as Windows Server running on RHEL using the Kernel-based...
[October 8, 2009, 12:19]
Citrix XenDesktop 4 adds features, changes licence
News XenDesktop 4 includes a copy of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor and also supports Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX and vSphere. Citrix has updated its XenDesktop product, adding over 70 new features, and boosting performance, security and readiness for...
[October 8, 2009, 8:56]
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualisation
Blog Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, using the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, with Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 guests. It is now possible to deploy supported virtualisation environments that combine Red Hat Linux with...
[October 7, 2009, 17:40]
VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism
News Quocirca principal associate analyst Simon Perry told ZDNet UK said that Microsoft's move to give away its Hyper-V hypervisor had been disruptive to the cost structures of virtualisation. The money is all in management tools and services [rather...
[October 6, 2009, 17:10]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog But having previously backed the Xen hypervisor, the Linux vendor appears now to have switched horses in favour of KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) as its virtualisation technology of choice. The Linux vendor has committed to supporting the Xen...
[September 23, 2009, 22:10]
Virtualisation - a progress snapshot
Blog Well, naturally, he has a stake in this as Dell's server range is now hypervisor-ready pretty much across the range with the recent Nehalem refresh. Either they require physical hardware, or they have only 'certified' a particular hypervisor.
[September 21, 2009, 12:41]
HP heads into battle over virtual networking
News Each host server runs a hypervisor that includes a virtual switch — a piece of software that manages networked data flows to and from the virtual machine under its control. With the advent of virtualisation, we now have an Ethernet switch in every...
[September 21, 2009, 11:25]
Using the Latest in Hypervisor Technology to More Effectively Manage Desktops
White Papers bare-metal PC hypervisor in order to provide management capabilities that would not otherwise be available in a desktop management platform. The paper considers the value proposition of Virtual Computer's product, the company's business model, and...
[September 18, 2009, 1:23]
How bare-metal client hypervisors will mean the end of agent-based Windows management
White Papers In fact, one could argue that the true value of a client hypervisor is in the desktop lifecycle management arena, not in the desktop virtualization space. With all the recent focus on VDI and desktop virtualization, people are starting to talk...
[September 18, 2009, 1:23]
But still..
Talkback I'm sure they can make it run on other's if and when the need arises the fact that they are taking this step is a little show of faith either way, that just might prompt microsoft to offer something in return in another area.
[September 7, 2009, 22:39]
