However, they said customer acceptance of the new Microsoft technology combined with how Microsoft advances technology has the potential to impact VMware and others over time. Microsoft on Thursday ...

During Microsoft's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain, the company finally named its upcoming hypervisor virtualization platform. What was once code-named Viridian and then announced as ...

New Server 2008 customers can download Hyper-V now, but customers who've already deployed Server 2008 will have to wait until July 8, when Microsoft plans to offer Hyper-V through Windows Update.

While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs ...

Microsoft Thursday did something it rarely does. The company released a beta for a long-awaited technology — in this case its Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology Hyper-V — ahead of schedule.

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company’s march toward services-based computing. Microsoft ...

VMware has a long history of delivering top-performing virtualization solutions. Its hypervisor technology is widely regarded as the industry standard, with a proven track record of high performance ...