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Citrix offers cut-down XenServer for free
News The company plans to give away the XenServer hypervisor, but will hold back certain key management features.
Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Tool, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Hypervisor, XenServer, Server
Citrix XenServer now available free of charge
News The virtualization software joins Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMware's ESXi in being available at no charge, which Citrix hopes will help boost the platform's adoption.
Tags: Server platforms, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Open Source, Tool, Storage, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Hypervisor
Red Hat, Microsoft expand virtualization alliance
News The rivals have teamed up to make virtualization deployment easier and more flexible for enterprises.
Tags: Virtualization, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Server, software, Microsoft Windows Server, alliance, agreement
Clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 improve migration time
Techguide An enhancement to Windows Server 2008 R2 is clustered shared volumes. Rick Vanover provides an overview of this important change.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Migration, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Storage, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, clustering, Rick Vanover, Server
Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment
Techguide In efforts to virtualize everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. But do watch out for caveats.
Tags: Virtualization, E-mail servers, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Environment, Virtual Machine, unified messaging, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
Disabling the firewall in Server 2008 Core Edition
Techguide For Windows Server 2008’s Core Edition, the default firewall configuration is one of the things most administrators want to turn off after installation.
Tags: Networking, Operating systems, Hardware, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, question mark, Netsh, Server, Use Case, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Key features in Windows Server 2008 R2
Techguide 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.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Hypervisor, VMWare ESX, 64-bit computing, PowerShell 2.0, Server
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualization
News It is now possible to deploy supported virtualization environments that combine Red Hat Linux with Microsoft Windows Server, the two companies have announced.
Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HP and VMware team up on server management
News Companies have jointly released a vCenter-based console that promises to simplify the management of virtual server systems and their physical counterparts.
Tags: Business applications, Servers, App servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Gartner Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Server
Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server R2
News Latest iteration of Microsoft's free hypervisor, which now includes functionality for the live migration of servers, is now available for download.
Tags: Servers, Business applications, Virtualization, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Server, processor, team, Servers
Platform moves into cloud management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing releases cloud management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Web services, Xen, BMC Software Inc., Quocirca, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud computing, Environment, Platform Computing Inc.
Citrix releases major XenServer upgrade
News Available for download now are Version 5.5 of both XenServer and Citrix Essentials, the first significant new releases since XenServer became a free product in February.
Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., virtual machine, built-In, Virtualization, storage, Web
VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism
News Company has responded to comments by Steve Ballmer, saying while cost comparisons of virtualization products are complicated, Microsoft may be more expensive.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, Steve Ballmer, Operating System, EMEA, Microsoft Corp., operating system company, server operating system, Business applications, VMware Inc.
