Microsoft's first effort at enterprise-level virtualization is a good start, but lots of rough edges remain.
Sanbolic's chairman Bill Stevenson sees clustered file systems as a key technical piece in the virtualization puzzle.
If you're only virtualizing your servers or desktops, you're missing out on one of the best bets: virtual storage.
With the release of Hyper-V, is VMware in danger of becoming the new Netscape?
- By Robert Mullins
- 04/10/2008
Known for application virtualization, the company shook the hypervisor market with the strength of a sonic boom when it bought open source maker XenSource.
Microsoft's new Hyper-V is the cornerstone of its virtual structure.
The most important and influential company in virtualization reigns supreme -- but could a revolt be coming?
High availability for Windows Server gets an assist through a virtual copy scheme.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
Software for creating and running virtual machines on the PC goes mainstream.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
One company aims to measure virtualization's effect on the bottom line.
- By Doug Barney and the Virtualization Review Staff
- 04/01/2008
Virtualization can be a boon to business continuity and disaster recovery planning -- provided you understand the risks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/01/2008
Old habits die hard and this enterprise player gets back in the game to help customers manage enterprise virtual platforms.
- By Doug Barney and the Virtualization Review Staff
- 04/01/2008
The virtualization stalwart's product guru, Raghu Raghuram, helps the company set its sights on next-generation products and services.
Automating your virtualized datacenter can be a challenge.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
As companies virtualize physical servers and provision processor and memory resources to specific virtual machines delivering I/O to these VMs presents the next set of challenges. We examine these and look at two I/O solutions: InfiniBand and 10 GbE.
- By Jerome M. Wendt
- 03/13/2008
Citrix's Peter Levine discusses the company's Windows and open source virtualization strategies, as well as coopetition with Microsoft.
- By Ed Scannell and Doug Barney
- 03/01/2008
Here's how you can back up files inside running Virtual Server VMs.
Enhanced administration, security, IIS updates and virtualization promise to make moving to Microsoft's new server OS worthwhile.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2008
VMware might be far out in front, but don't count Microsoft out.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/27/2008
Disaster recovery tends to become a focus during any period of economic uncertainty -- and 2008 will deliver uncertainty in spades if market pundits are correct.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 01/18/2008