With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...

Until recently, when it came to complex datacenter virtualization tasks, most enterprises have turned to VMware Inc. tools. Lately, though, many have questioned whether Hyper-V is a viable alternative ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

Microsoft is making its case against VMware ESXi 5.0 for hypervisor superiority, with a bevy of features that include its upcoming Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 ability to scale up to higher physical ...

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 ...

One of the tech industry’s fiercest battles has Microsoft playing the underdog against a dominant leader in market share—but the battle we’re thinking of has absolutely nothing to do with smartphones ...

Virtualization solutions maker VMware announced the latest version of the vFabric Suite, a platform that’s meant to support Spring Java applications running on cloud infrastructure powered by the ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and ...

The Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas was the backdrop for a rather unsurprising bit of news: Windows Server “8” will officially be named Windows Server 2012 and will be released this calendar ...