Simplified upgrades is another feature, including rolling upgrades for Hyper-V.
It's cloud optimized, and 20 times smaller than Server Core.
Its main new features revolve around greater scalability.
AWS is worth between $48 billion - $69 billion, according to some estimates.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2015
The ubquitious cloud continues to conquer the datacenter, now accounting for one-third of all IT infrastructure spending, according to new research from IDC.
Bedrock Data thinks it has a solution.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 04/23/2015
Called Project Photon and Project Lightwave, they provide an infrastructure and security model for containers in the cloud.
Up to 64,000 IOPS per VM is supported at the new tier.
Among the many challengers stepping into the ring, the top contender is Microsoft.
The container company is a darling of venture capitalists.
The IDC study also shows that most are using their clouds for IT operations.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will offer Hyper-V container support to provide additional deployment scenarios and allow for the development of more scalable apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/09/2015
The company was founded by a former NASA CTO.
The cloud giant undercuts the competition in the "how low can you go?" contest.
Year-over-year sales were up more than 30 percent over 2013, according to IDC.
IBM Corp. opened two Network Innovation Centers to help customers explore software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and other emerging virtualization and cloud technologies.
Redmond has released a second preview of Azure AD Connect.
The latest membership survey from the Open Data Center Alliance shows increased use of software-defined networking technologies with even more demand forecast for the near future.
The bundled service offering works with Hyper-V now, with VMware compatibility in the preview stage.
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service vendor OnApp touts its wares.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/25/2015