This isn't VMware's first rodeo, as we say in Texas, and by the time any companies might begin to embrace Hyper-V, VMware will have produced another major version or two, while Microsoft will ...

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.

Since the release of Windows Server 2012 R2, which included the third generation of Hyper-V, the Microsoft hypervisor reached near parity with the vSphere virtualization platform from VMware Inc ...

Hyper-V’s dynamic memory, introduced in Server 2008 R2, is conceptually similar to VMware’s “overprovisioning.” The two work a bit differently, however.

Microsoft is shipping Hyper-V, which offers virtualization on the cheap, but VMware might still be the best option. With the release Thursday of Hyper-V as a free download to Windows Server 2008 ...

Now Microsoft's coming in and saying we'll pay you to show Hyper-V instead of VMware," added the source. So far, Microsoft's efforts are paying off in terms of getting customers' eyeballs on Hyper-V.

VMware has been downplaying other virtualization platforms like Hyper-V and Xen for years now, never really giving them credence or acknowledging them as any significant threat. But actions often ...

More than 1,200 undocumented VMware VMX parameters have been discovered, some showing signs of being Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor-aware ...

As part of the RDP, Garcia had his team investigate shifting some or all of ABM’s virtualized workloads from VMware to Hyper-V 3.0. [Related: ...

At the very least, the entrance of Microsoft and Hyper-V into a market in which Xen-based offerings are already giving VMware a run for its money means that the days of VMware as the no-brainer ...

Looking at making the jump over to Hyper-V to avoid dropping 6 kilobucks for vmware essentials plus just to allow me to do shared nothing live migrations and manage all of my hosts from a single ...