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...

The virtualization pioneer VMware announced plans to to launch a line of new products in 20o9 in an effort to fight slowdown of IT spending. the company that reported growth in 4th quarter of 2008 of 25% also said that its expectations for the first-quarter on 2009 are much weaker. VMware is planning major upgrades around server virtualization and cloud computing. The company is about to launch a “major update” of server virtualization products. It will be also unveiling new management and automation products, enhancements to its desktop virtualization offerings, as well as a significant...

According to a “Virtualization Industry Survey“, a research work conducted and published by Virtualization.info among 1,050 respondents Hyper-V, the relatively new virtualization technology by Microsoft. Question 6 of the survey is “What hardware virtualization platform do you implement?“. It is a closed question which offers respondents multiple choices to as answers. Among the options are 8 hypervisor choices - VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen Server, Virtual Iron, SuSe, RHEL, Oracle VM, KVM, as well an answer “None”. Hyper-V receives 600 responses with 475 for EXS...