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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Despite the fact that Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and that the latest iteration of the server operating system was officially launched on February 27, the company has yet to finish certain aspects of the product. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V managed to reach only beta-s... |
19 March 2008
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Microsoft is ready to bet the low costs associated with its upcoming virtualization solution as a key to success. Launched worldwide on February 27, 2008, following the RTM on February 4, Windows Server 2008 brings to the table the Hyper-V component, essentially a hypervisor that ships together with the latest iterat... |
18 March 2008
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Virtualization is by no means a new technology. However, in terms of mainstream adoption, virtualization is just making the first steps on the market, and yet far from maturity. Shipping as a server role in Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V is one component of Microsoft's latest Windows server operating system that i... |
6 March 2008
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Microsoft is aiming high with its goals related to virtualization. The Redmond company is by no means the leader of the virtualization market, but has come up with a strategy that could very well take it to the top. Concomitantly with the latest Windows Server operating system, Microsoft is also making available a vi... |
28 February 2008
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Despite the fact that Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and that February 27 is the official global launch of the server platform, there are aspects of the product still cooking over at Redmond. An illustrative example in this regard is Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V B... |
27 February 2008
12:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is on a mission. A mission to make virtualization mainstream. And as far as the Redmond company is concerned, it all revolves around Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, the hypervisor integrated as a role in the server operating system. The Microsoft Virtualization Deployment Summit was the stage where the com... |
22 January 2008
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Microsoft is kicking Windows virtualization up a notch with the help of Citrix. The two companies have announced an expansion of their existent alliance aimed at developing and making available a new collection of virtualization solutions both client and server-side. The joint virtualization solution will be built ar... |
22 January 2008
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Microsoft's Windows operating system is simply a hit when it comes down to the integration with virtualization technology. The Windows near-monopoly on the operating system market has deep repercussions, reverberating throughout virtualized environments. A recent survey, published by Sage/CMB market Pulse and sp... |
3 January 2008
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Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is currently scheduled for official "Heroes Happen Here" launch on February 27th, 2008, in Los Angeles, alongside with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft revealed in the past, via Iain McDonald, Director of Windows Server Program, that the official deli... |
19 December 2007
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A single virtual machine running under Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V role can have allocated in excess of 1 Petabyte of storage space. Just watch the videos at the bottom of this article in order to get a full idea of what Hyper-V, formerly codenamed Viridian, can do for you in terms of virtualization. The videos deal ... |
17 December 2007
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Microsoft is beginning to increasingly focus on outlining its strategy against Linux on the server operating system market, and Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is positioned as an ace up its sleeve. After having delayed the release to manufacturing date of Windows Server 2008 from the end of 2007 to... |
12 November 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Microsoft's virtualization strategy is slowly beginning to have a well-defined contour. The TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona, Spain was the stage where the Redmond company unveiled details related to its new virtualization offerings. In this manner Hyper-V has taken shape. Microsoft's increasing focus on v... |
12 November 2007
09:12 GMT |
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