Microsoft has been hammering away at VMware with the message that Hyper-V gives customers much bigger bang for their buck, and the software giant has come up with creative promotions to get companies ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

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 ...

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built ...

Businesses around the world have embraced virtualization because it can deliver high performance and reduce both capital and operational expenditures, while freeing up valuable IT resources. The rise ...

The VMware Workstation product, used to host virtual machines on client devices, is getting support for Windows hypervisor, which will unlock the use of various Microsoft technologies that are ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

VMware administrators seem hard-pressed to give up on using VMware vCenter Server to manage their virtual data centers. That’s been good news for VMware, as the company expands its virtualization ...

It’s always fun to keep your eyes open for useful and interesting free tools that help make your job easier. Because these tools are free, you don’t have to beg for budget or write up a justification ...