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. Even ...

After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features — and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

While VMware might want to diminish Microsoft's role in the enterprise, the company understands that if it wants to play an even greater role in managing virtual and cloud infrastructures, it needs to ...

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 users ...

I'm getting a new system with Windows 10 Home. I occasionally need to run virtual machines on the system. Simple things like spinning up a web server for web development, or running CentOS instances ...

If you haven't had a chance to read my Hyper-V vs. VMware debate with Jason Perlow in the Great Debate series, please do so before reading this post-mortem assessment and review. Now that you've had a ...

Microsoft and VMware are in pitched battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project? There's a lot to like in both Windows Server ...

VMWare also has a significant number of features a lot of their customers never use and yet still pay for. In my mind VMWare remains the 800lb gorilla in the enterprise virtualization space (and for ...