In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...

Despite naysaying by analysts, customers, tech industry observers and me, it is not true that Microsoft has no substantive answer to the multifaceted approach VMware and other competitors take to ...

Microsoft does it again. Just when you thought you were completely confused about Microsoft virtualization licensing, they do it again. Remember when Microsoft announced their virtualization license ...

That's the message from an event held Monday at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., where the software giant dished up a series of major announcements on the virtualization front and kicked ...

Speaking at the Microsoft Management Summit, Ballmer announced the beta release of Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 and plans for new virtualization support in Longhorn--including opening up the ...

As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualization in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server ...

At a briefing in Redmond, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner explains how business demands for advances in these four key areas guide Microsoft's strategy as it creates a software and ...

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It seems that server virtualization is the buzzword for the industry right now. Having made its way into storage virtualization, VMware led its wide use in the enterprise server market. Last week, two ...

Virtualization the move from real, physical hardware to virtual hardware is being seen as one of the next big things in IT. There are more virtualization options for IT departments than ever before, ...

The functions that Microsoft is now relegating to the scrapheap have unwieldy names: Virtualization-based Security Enclaves (VBS) and Windows UWP Map Controls and associated APIs. These are functions ...