In the battle for the virtualization title, VMWare, the underdog scrapper from Palo Alto, Calif. is pitted against the mammoth-sized contender out of Redmond that is Microsoft. I say contender because ...

A war of words in the virtualization space is heating up over what Microsoft says are inaccurate claims being bandied about by market-leader VMware. Microsoft's furious response to a recent VMware ...

Microsoft’s momentum in virtualization is growing quickly, as evidenced by September 8th’s “Get Virtual Now” virtualization extravaganza showcase. Microsoft announced Hyper-V Server 2008 will be free ...

Michael Goldstein has made a career out of providing his small business customers with the biggest IT bang for their buck. Goldstein says Hyper-V, which comes lock, stock and barrel as part of ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its Windows 365 desktop-as-a-service offering is now integrated with the VMware Horizon Cloud virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service. It's possible to try this ...

With technological innovation reshaping industries at a breakneck pace, the very framework of how we work, interact and live is undergoing a massive transformation. As virtualization and cloud ...

As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualization in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server ...

As Hyper-V marks Microsoft's entry into virtualization, market leader VMware must consider new strategies for survival against the software behemoth Two weeks ago, VMware found itself squarely in ...

VMware has enjoyed a long run as king of x86 server virtualization, and the pioneering vendor remains the one to beat when tallying enterprise market share. But its competitors, particularly Microsoft ...

Google is claiming that new node types and incentives can provide up to 30% less total costs for running VMware in its environment compared to Microsoft. Google said its offering provides for 20% ...

Disaster recovery has become table stakes in the world of server virtualization. Any good virtualization platform these days will find a way to restart a virtual machine in the event of a hardware ...