On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Microsoft last week stepped into the virtualization market dominated by VMware with the introduction of Virtual Server 2005. The product, which it acquired from Connectix in 2003, allows network ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Data center managers have embraced server virtualization in the past year across a variety of businesses for nearly every kind of application as a way to reduce oversight and ...

Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology’s use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, ...

Server virtualization may be enterprise computing’s latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype. According to an August survey of ...

Solution providers are turning server virtualization, one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT market, into their very own gravy train. "Server consolidation and IT optimization [are] hot," said ...

Windows Server carries with it a very specific reputation. It's typically thought of as an enterprise OS first, belonging to ...

Application virtualization is one of those technologies that has been around for a little while now, but it just doesn't seem to get the same attention as its older sibling -- server virtualization.

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

SEATTLE/BOSTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it bought a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems , targeting the fast growing ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...