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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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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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Microsoft has made available for download a management pack designed to permit administrators to keep a close eye on systems running the hypervisor it launched with the RTM/SP1 build of Windows Server 2008. The Windows Server Hyper-V Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 went live at the end of th... |
23 June 2009
05:34 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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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 will continue offering its standalone hypervisor as a free download, even after the delivery of the upcoming version. The next iteration of the Redmond company's hypervisor is Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, which will be made available for download at no cost, even though customers will be able to b... |
21 April 2009
06:05 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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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
06:18 GMT |
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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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Defined by Microsoft as a “bare metal hypervisor-based server virtualization product,” the availability of Hyper-V Server 2008 was announced by Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer during his keynote address at a TechNet Server and Tools event in London, today, October 1. Delivered as a free download, Mi... |
1 October 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Set up on the road to democratize virtualization, Microsoft sees the technology as an indispensable component of Cloud computing, one that will ultimately support the realization of its own Software plus Services business strategy. In this context, the Redmond company is committed to delivering a strong set of softw... |
17 September 2008
09:14 GMT |
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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
09:13 GMT |
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Moving forward with Windows, and even past what is currently its proprietary operating system, Microsoft will have to deal with a crucial gambit evolution on a non-Windows path vs. perpetuating the platform's heritage for 1+ billion users. Not really much of a choice for the Redmond giant, which can't aff... |
7 August 2008
04:22 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 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
06:53 GMT |
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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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Microsoft has never been that shy about trashing open source operating systems in order to boost its own proprietary platforms, and the latest perspective over the two products is merely a new chapter in the Windows vs. Linux saga. A Microsoft authored comparison involving Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Red Hat Ent... |
20 June 2008
12:09 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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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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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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The BluePill is the code-name used by Joanna Rutkowska, Founder/CEO of Invisible Things Labs, formerly a security researcher with COSEINC, for the development of a virtualization-based rootkit designed to compromise Windows Vista back in 2006. According to Rutkowska, the BluePill is set up to deliver an ultra-thin hy... |
1 April 2008
14:04 GMT |
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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
05:31 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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The virtualization market which is aimed at enterprises and data centers is fast becoming a very popular target for the big hardware manufacturing companies that are struggling to carve themselves a niche on that growing market. As virtualization software applications can always put to good use every little bit of ha... |
19 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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The undetectable Blue Pill rootkit designed for the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista by Joanna Rutkowska CEO of Invisible Things Lab, just got a whole lot more detectable as McAfee got in on the game. Rutkowska claims that the Blue Pill virtualization based rootkit that she demonstrated initially on a 64-bit edition ... |
14 August 2007
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to launch a Windows Vista hypervisor by mid 2009, according to Gartner. Virtualization is currently immature and this aspect reflects upon Microsoft's little coherent strategy with the technology. The restrictions associated with the use of hardware emulating technology and the Home Basic and Hom... |
4 July 2007
07:48 GMT |
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