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Red Hat boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio

Red Hat has released new components in its enterprise virtualisation portfolio, including a stand-alone hypervisor and management platform for servers. Read more »

VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism

VMware has responded to claims made by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer that its virtualisation software is "very expensive". Read more »

Red Hat hypervisor tools to run on Windows only

Open-source company Red Hat will initially offer its hypervisor management tools for Windows systems only. Read more »

Red Hat adds virtualisation, cloud to RHEL

Open-source software company Red Hat has made a bid at cloud virtualisation with the release of the latest version of its operating system, which includes a built-in hypervisor. Read more »

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Application virtualisation hits handsets

VMware is in the early stages of embedding its technology in a range of smartphones, enabling them to connect to PCs and run applications that were designed for other mobile phones. Read more »

Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server R2

The latest version of Microsoft's Hyper-V standalone hypervisor, which includes new functionality for the live migration of servers, is now available for download. Read more »

Red Hat chief: 'Cheaper generally wins'

Red Hat's chief executive, Jim Whitehurst, has claimed his company is well placed to deal with the current economic crisis because it is a low-cost supplier. Read more »

Windows Server 2008 R2 revealed

Microsoft announced the second release of its Windows Server 2008 operating system at its Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this week. Read more »

VMware: Microsoft has 'no car'

Microsoft's virtualisation offering was like tyres without a car, according to Paul Harapin, VMware's Asia Pacific vice president, who today said his company's future direction would put it in increasing conflict with Redmond. Read more »

Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »

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Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements

Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »

Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 vs. VMware's vSphere: A feature comparison

VMware and Microsoft are ramping up their virtualisation games with relatively new releases. Scott Lowe compares and contrasts some of the major features in vSphere and Hyper-V R2. Read more »

VMware embraces the cloud with vSphere

VMware has launched vSphere, the latest rendition of what used to be called Virtual Infrastructure. vSphere comes in three product segments and seven editions, one of which is the familiar (and free) ESXi edition. Here's a brief overview of the new editions and some of the features. Read more »

Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment

In efforts to virtualise everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. After all, those servers just run e-mail, right? Not so fast. Although Microsoft does support virtualising Exchange in certain scenarios, there are a number of caveats and requirements. Read more »

10 reasons why Linux will triumph over Windows

Windows 7 may be generating some positive buzz, but the author remains sceptical. In fact, he says it's only a matter of time before Linux takes its rightful spot at the top of the OS heap. Read more »

Key features in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft plans to release an R2 edition of Windows Server 2008 in 2009 or 2010. Here are the key features of the R2 release that you need to know. Read more »

10 things you should know about virtualisation

Virtualisation has been a major buzzword in the IT world for a few years. Microsoft has promised that the Hyper-V virtualisation component (formerly called Viridian) will follow within 180 days of the Windows Server 2008 release. Read more »

10 tech skills you should develop during the next five years

If you want a job where you can train in a particular skill set and then never have to learn anything new, IT isn't the field for you. But if you like to be constantly learning new things and developing new skills, you're in the right business. In the late 80s, NetWare and IPX/SPX administration were the skills to have. Today, it's all about TCP/IP and the Internet. Read more »

KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications. Read more »

Red Hat's Fedora 5 boosts desktop features

Red Hat released its Fedora Core 5 version of Linux Monday, giving enthusiasts new graphics and virtualisation abilities, as well as some desktop utilities based on a software framework from Microsoft. Read more »

Blog (5)

Google releases new JavaScript tools

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has open-sourced a new JavaScript toolkit and also released the Google Dashboard. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Azure: A matter of trust

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »

Ubuntu gets jaunty

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »

VMware shows how not to do it

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »

Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »

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