Red Hat and Microsoft announced a technical support agreement which, according to IT analysts is aimed to compete the leader in virtualization technologies VMware. Microsoft has recently been put under pressure from customers who demand to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) smoothly on their Windows servers and desktops. The Microsoft’s virtualization General manager Mike Neil publicly announced that Microsoft and Red Hat signed agreements to test and validate their server OS running on each other’s hypervisors. The hypervisor, also known as Virtual Machine manager is a technology which...

During his opening keynote at the Parallels Summit 2009, Serguey Belousov, CEO of the virtualization producer defined a few types of clouds*. Cloud Type 1: The Google cloud. Truly massive, huge data centers, heavily hardware dependent, unmatched in many senses. Cloud Type 2: The Microsoft cloud. Also massive, less hardware dependent, more user-fueled at its heart. Cloud Type 3: Other super-size large clouds, among the largest being IBM and Apple, but also including EMC, HP, Amazon, Facebook, Adobe etc. Cloud Type 4: Channel clouds of service providers, telcos, ISPs, SaaS ISV, web hosters etc Cloud...

VMware’s won two prestigeous awards with its Infrastructure 3. One of them came from InfoWorld’s. The magazine’s technology of the Year Award for the best server virtualization platform went to the VM producer for the 5th consecutive year. WMware has also been honoured as “Best Overall Cloud Product” and “Best Cloud Platform” at the SYS-CON Event’s - Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards. The delegates of the expo voted for the best cloud computing solution in 5 categories all having “Best” upfront: Overall Cloud Product,...