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Following the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2, Citrix moved to provide its own virtualization management and automation solution tailored to the latest iteration of Windows Server. In this regard, while Microsoft delivered the R2 flavor of Windows Server 2008 along with the Hyper-V hypervisor techn... |
5 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Microsoft has wrapped up the next iteration of its standalone hypervisor and is now offering it for download to customers. As the Redmond company promised in the first half of the year, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 continues to be free even after the evolution to R2. The software giant promised that customers would ... |
31 August 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is on a mission to play its cards right in game over a larger share of the virtualization market. Little shy of taking jabs at the main competitors, the Redmond company is dangling consistent cost savings in front of potential customers provided that they switch from VMware solutions to its own virtualizati... |
28 August 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to manufacturing on August 24th, 2009, and is already permitting customers to test drive the solution. The gold development milestone of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 started being offered on the Microsoft Download Center at the begi... |
25 August 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Nissan North America Inc. has turned to Microsoft’s virtualization technology in order to shift server spending in reverse at two of its plants in the United States, namely Smyrna and Decherd. According to the Redmond company, the number of servers necessary to run manufacturing operations at the two locations ... |
19 August 2009
10:57 GMT |
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It’s that time again! Microsoft traditionally doesn’t allow the benchmarking of its products as long as the software is still in development, but both the Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009. The RTM status opens up comparison scenarios, but ... |
18 August 2009
12:00 GMT |
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Are you looking to test drive Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 without having to go through the hassles associated with the deployment process? Then Microsoft has the right download for you. The Redmond company is offering a trial version of Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 packaged as a virtual machine. Cust... |
10 July 2009
03:59 GMT |
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The first Mediaroom with virtualization service is coming to Europe by the end of this year. Microsoft revealed that it had inked an agreement with Viapass, for the adoption of Mediaroom as the French network services and telecoms operator's Internet Protocol television service. At the end of May 2009, the Redmo... |
9 July 2009
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Following the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 Microsoft has literally joined its client and server operating systems at the hip. So much so that the client can stretch all the way to the server and manage the hypervisor role. This scenario was valid with the first service ... |
6 July 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is working its way to release to manufacturing and subsequently to launch Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server) concomitantly with the Windows 7 client. The R2 version of Windows Server 2008 delivers the second-generation of Hyper-V. In this regard, the Redmond-based company is currently offering for do... |
22 June 2009
06:33 GMT |
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At the end of May 2009, Microsoft made available for download and started offering as an update the second service pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. In the time passed since the RTM of Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, bundled in the same package, the Redmond company revealed that it had seen &ldqu... |
18 June 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Customers running virtual machines leveraging the Microsoft server hypervisor role that are looking to update their server OS to the latest service pack release available can effectively cut access to virtualized platforms. Microsoft explained that the problem was associated with virtual machines put together with th... |
11 June 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Microsoft's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform has evolved with the addition of virtualization support, the company informs. In this sense, the software giant becomes the first provider of IPTV platforms to bring virtualization to the world of IPTV. And in order to do this, the company is leveraging th... |
27 May 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of applauding every technological success, no matter how small, especially when it could potentially end up in additional customers embracing its software products. The latest example in this regard is A & A Contract Customs Brokers, which adopted solutions from both Microsoft and NetApp. With... |
7 May 2009
09:54 GMT |
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It's a veritable Release Candidate fiesta over at Microsoft. Along with the latest development milestones for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the Redmond company has also released a variety of software in RC stage. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate accompanied the RC milestones of both Windows serve... |
6 May 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of serving VMware the same treatment that it is using to fight Apple. The Redmond company is betting on a numbers game strategy that makes all the sense in the world, especially in the context of the global economic downturn. With IT budgets shrinking and no end to the financial crisis in sigh... |
5 May 2009
05:47 GMT |
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The Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V are now live on the Microsoft Download Center, and up for grabs as version 1.0. Prior to being offered through the Download Center, the Linux Integration Components could be accessed only via Microsoft Connect. What Microsoft is essentially delivering i... |
17 April 2009
05:48 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows Vista Microsoft introduced Solution Accelerators, resources accompanying the operating system designed to streamline common processes and tasks. The strategy continued with Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft is committed to the model even for its hypervisor. The latest Solution Accelerator o... |
1 April 2009
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Microsoft is applauding its virtualization and management solutions for enabling US ice cream manufacturer Wells’ Dairy to save no less that $500,000. However, at the same time, the Redmond company is using the opportunity to take a jab at rivals VMware, by advertising the cost advantages of its own products. A... |
30 March 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Citrix is expanding support for Linux running as Hyper-V guest operating systems. Having acquired XenSource, Citrix Systems continued with the Satori Project, an initiative initially from XenSource / Microsoft, designed to enhance the performance of Xen-ready Linux guest platforms running on the Hyper-V hypervisor. T... |
25 March 2009
06:35 GMT |
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In mid-February 2009, Microsoft and RedHat announced a Linux and Windows support agreement for virtualization scenarios. Essentially, the two rival companies have agreed to offer support for Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating systems deployed in both Microsoft and Red Hat virtualization prod... |
18 March 2009
09:23 GMT |
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The Microsoft Hosting Summit 2009 is the stage where the company plans to introduce an updated hosting strategy and bring into the limelight tools and resources available for its partners to drive success. In doing so, the Redmond company is simply looking to catalyze the transition to the world of software plus serv... |
4 March 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of an issue related to virtual machines running under Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, where items can no longer be executed or accessed because of a certificate error. According to Microsoft, attempts to connect to a vm would... |
3 March 2009
06:00 GMT |
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In the context of the global economic downturn, Microsoft has been consistently emphasizing the need to cut costs, pointing to virtualization as one of the solutions to save a pretty penny. At the same time, the Redmond company has not been shy at all in applauding its success stories, and invariably also those of it... |
24 February 2009
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Project Encore is yet another illustrative example of solution providers adapting their products to heterogeneous environments, and customers depending on mixed source IT infrastructures. A Citrix initiative, Project Encore is designed to enhance Microsoft Hyper-V. The promise is that Citrix Essentials take the virtu... |
24 February 2009
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Microsoft revealed that users of its hypervisor and Windows Server 2008 operating system have cut costs, on average, by approximately half a million dollars per year. The Redmond company even managed to produce a few examples starting with the Indiana University’s Auxiliary IT Department, which deployed virtual... |
10 February 2009
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Live Migration is a new feature shared by both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, designed to ensure that virtual machines will remain online and accessible in maintenance scenarios. Microsoft has made available documentation for Live Migration introduced with the next generation of its hype... |
29 January 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Following the downloading and deployment of over 1.5 million Beta copies of the Microsoft hypervisor-based virtualization technology in testing environments, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was released to manufacturing at the end of June 2008. However, even as early as the Release Candidate stages of the solution, the R... |
7 January 2009
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At the end of the past week, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1. With the release of SP1, the Redmond company enhanced the protection capabilities available for SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Exc... |
22 December 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Following the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has made it increasingly easy for customers to access and test-drive its latest iterations of Windows client and server platforms. First off, both operating systems offer an extensive trial-base period, Vista of up to 120 days, and Windows Serv... |
11 November 2008
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Microsoft is committed to virtualization for the long haul, with a focus on democratizing the technology. As far as the Redmond giant is concerned, with the debut of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, its efforts to make virtualization mainstream have been kicked up a notch. But the hypervisor in the Windows Server op... |
2 September 2008
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Even as a new player on the virtualization market, Microsoft has touted intentions to democratize the technology. Despite the perception of a revolutionary novelty, virtualization in fact dates back all the way to the 1970's mainframes. However, the technology has so far failed to gain sufficient traction, despi... |
22 August 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has a tradition of implementing and using its own software products, even as early as the Beta stages. Windows Server 2008 or the platform's hypervisor make no exception to this rule. The process is dubbed dogfooding, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is now running virtualized MSDN, TechNet, and increas... |
30 July 2008
12:32 GMT |
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It's game time for Microsoft in virtualization, revealed Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas on June 10, 2008. The CEO's focus is intimately connected with the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and t... |
11 July 2008
07:57 GMT |
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On July 8, 2008 Microsoft gave the green light to the automatic distribution of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V via Windows Update. The hypervisor component of the latest Windows server operating system was finalized at the end of June 2008, and at that time, it went live on the Download Center. Now the Redmond giant is ... |
9 July 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft is yet to officially breathe a single word on the matter, the virtualization capabilities of Windows 7 will also evolve in comparison to what is offered with Windows Vista today. Vista was the Redmond giant's first client for which virtualization was introduced into the End User License Agr... |
3 July 2008
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Even though it might seem like an overstatement, the fact of the matter is that Microsoft is actually providing all the information consumers need to know about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, and centralizing it proved quite a task. Hyper-V is delivered as an update for Windows Server 2008, available for download as of... |
27 June 2008
13:04 GMT |
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Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to manufacturing on June 26, 2008. The final version of Hyper-V is designed to integrate exclusively with the gold build of Windows Server 2008, RTM'd on February 4, and launched on February 27. The hypervisor-based virtualization technology is available as a role i... |
27 June 2008
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Even though its has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 on February 4, 2008, alongside Windows Vista SP1, and was launched on February 27, Microsoft is still wrapping up the latest Windows server operating system. In this context, the Redmond company announced that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was released t... |
26 June 2008
12:20 GMT |
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At the beginning of June 2008, Microsoft ended its transition to Windows Server 2008 by upgrading the last box running Windows Server 2003 to the latest Windows server operating system. At the same time, the end of the Windows 2003 era marked the start of yet another migration for the Redmond company's servers. ... |
23 June 2008
10:17 GMT |
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As of June 10, Microsoft has completed the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the previous version of the operating system. The last Windows Server 2003 box that was powering Microsoft.com has been upgraded to Windows Server 2008. Even as early as the beta development stages of the latest server operating system, ... |
11 June 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Microsoft never contested the fact that Windows Vista's hardware requirements qualified the latest Windows client as resource hungry, but at the same time, the company did point out that, given the right system, the platform would deliver quite a performance. And performance is the correct word to describe a lit... |
9 June 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a taste of its latest Windows server operating system available as a free download. Multiple Virtual Hard Drive Images containing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise can be grabbed straight from Microsoft, permitting the integration of the platform in a virtual machine running on two different Micros... |
4 June 2008
05:32 GMT |
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At the start of 2008, Microsoft indicated to customers, partners and competitors that it was committed to a new business strategy involving a strong focus placed on interoperability. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is, in this context, an illustrative example of the Redmond company working to bridge the gap between its p... |
3 June 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is not lingering on Windows Vista SP1 with its solution accelerators. In fact, the Redmond company has revealed that it is moving past the first service pack for its latest Windows client, as well as Windows Server 2008 to upcoming releases of its Windows operating systems. Next month, the Redmond company w... |
29 May 2008
04:49 GMT |
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On May 20, 2008 Microsoft made available for download Release Candidate 1 for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The RC1 build was served through the Download Center at that time, although it was packaged as an update for Hyper-V Release Candidate 0. RC1 via Windows Update is distributed automatically as of May 27, but thi... |
28 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V has been ready for deployment into production environments as early as Release Candidate 0, made available for download in December 2007. And just as the case with Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is jumping the gun on the adoption of Hyper-V. Ahead of its finalizatio... |
27 May 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 for Windows Server 2008 is available for download through Windows Update. On May 20, Microsoft started serving the RC1 build of Hyper-V for the latest Windows server operating system via WU. The update is designed for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 and weighs under ... |
20 May 2008
07:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to start the distribution of its hypervisor as a Windows Update for all Windows Server 2008 editions starting on April 9, 2008. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was initially served via the Microsoft Download Center starting with mid-March 2008. At that time, Microsoft revealed that it had reached a ... |
8 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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An update made available for both the x86 and x64 editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 enables administrators to remotely manage the Windows Server 2008 hypervisor. The update is essentially designed to introduce the Vista SP1 tailored management tools for the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Release Candidate. Via th... |
27 March 2008
10:00 GMT |
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