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...

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,...

The Tech Target website has published a comparison article that compares the pricing of Hyper-V and WMware and the benefits consumers have with each of those Windows virtualization technologies. “Microsoft touts Hyper-V as a lower-priced virtualization option than VMware’s ESXi, but for straight server consolidation, it’s unclear whether Hyper-V is that much cheaper than VMware because of Hyper-V’s system requirements and lower consolidation ratios”, writes Bridget Botelho. It is true that VMware has higher consolidation ratios than Hyper-V. Another benefit of WMware...