IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

It’s always fun to keep your eyes open for useful and interesting free tools that help make your job easier. Because these tools are free, you don’t have to beg for budget or write up a justification ...

VMware is said to be the pioneer of virtualization. Whenever VMware announces a big idea, it’s a big deal for the virtualization world. But competitors are on the rise, and Microsoft is making a tough ...

Microsoft took a big leap forward Thursday in its virtualization effort. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, which ...

Saving about $2 million was the primary reason international business-facility management firm ABM decided to convert its virtual infrastructure from VMware’s vSphere to Microsoft’s Hyper-V, but that ...

When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two ...