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Early thoughts around VMware ESX vs MS Hyper-V..

by ~Previous Contributers

I was reading through this well done article by the Network World Labs comparing the performance between Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX 3.5.0 Hypervisor and got to thinking about some of my own experiences in the lab with the two products. I have had 4 ESX servers and VirtualCenter running in my lab for a [...]

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The Impact of Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager

by ~Previous Contributers

Microsoft recently announced that Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) will be released in Q4 of this year as a stand alone product. An article in Network World has the details of the pricing. There has been a lot of news lately in the virtualization world. Microsoft with the release of Hyper – V and VMware with [...]

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Iron Chef Virtualization

by Dwayne Melancon

As was posted here yesterday, there were a lot of changes at VMware this week, prompting lots of speculation and (in my opinion) premature declarations of the end of VMware. For example, as CNet’s Matt Asay mentions in his post “VMware feeling the open-source sting,” It was great while it lasted, VMware. Who knows? Maybe [...]

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VMware’s shake up at the top.

by ~Previous Contributers

Today VMware announced that DIane Greene would be stepping down as the CEO of VMware and was being replaced by Paul Maritz. Maritz is coming out of EMC after being the CEO of Pi which was purchased by EMC. He was also at Microsoft for 14 years where he was in charge of the development [...]

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VMware vs. Microsoft – Betamax vs. VHS or something different?

by Dwayne Melancon

Kevin Fogarty has some interesting commentary over at Network World, in which he claims that VMware is wasting energy on declaring its technical superiority over Microsoft. His premise is that VMware is taking the same tack that vendors like Banyan Systems, WordPerfect, Digital Equipment and Novell took in past technology throwdowns. Each of them were [...]

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