All Posts Tagged With: "microsoft"

Parallels Desktop for Mac To Be Part Of Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription

Last week, Parallels announced that its Parallels Desktop for Mac software will be made available as part of the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription. The company claims this will enable millions of designers using Mac computers to use Microsoft’s Expression Studio to design desktop and web-based graphical interfaces.

5May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Microsoft Management Summit 2008: Birth Of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta

At the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas, the Redmond-based software giant released its virtualization management platform, now named System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, into public beta testing. The release comes well within the 60 to 90 day window Microsoft promised after the public beta delivery of its ‘Viridian hypervisor’, now formally known as Hyper-V.

30Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Microsoft Survey: Why Retailers Are Adopting Virtualization

71 % of U.S. retailers are turning to a broad set of virtualization solutions as a means to save costs, maximize space and generally gain better control of their IT infrastructures, reports a new survey released today by Microsoft.

29Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Neterion 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Drivers Embedded In Windows Server 2008

Neterion, maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) adapters for server and storage environments, announced today that drivers for its 10 GbE adapters are embedded in the initial release of Windows Server 2008.

28Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Microsoft Puts Forth System Management As Key Differentiator In Virtualization Technology

Anticipating that the market for virtualization software eventually will be commoditized, Microsoft sees management as the key revenue opportunity for competitors offering server virtualization.

22Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

What Should We Ask Steve Ballmer?

Upcoming thursday, we’re sitting down with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a short Q&A session. We have some questions in mind for the man, but we thought it might be a good opportunity to ask you for feedback on what we should ask as well. Anything goes, but please avoid questions that could make him go crazy.

21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Free Virtualization Capacity Planning, Courtesy of Microsoft MAP

MAP is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely run in small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of agent software on any computers or devices.

21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Hyper-V Quick Migration Breaks Network Connections, Says VMware

Here is a demo by Blip.tv account ‘VMware TV’, expressing the difference between moving a VM from one physical server to another with downtime (Hyper-V Quick Migration) and VMware’s Vmotion, which offers zero downtime when transferring virtual machines.

21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued

EMA Research on Virtualization: VMware Still Leading The Pack, Microsoft And Citrix Following Closely

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a US-based IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its latest research report titled, “Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts and Recommendations.”

17Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

AspenTech Releases aspenONE 2006.5, Integrates Microsoft Application Virtualization

Aspen Technology, provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that aspenONE version 2006.5 uses the latest Microsoft technologies to simplify IT rollout and management. The integration of aspenONE with Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office Excel, and SoftGrid Application Virtualization supports IT standards, speeds time to deployment, and extends the reach of aspenONE within operations for improved manufacturing performance.

16Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Google And Microsoft Set To Battle In The Clouds: App Engine vs. Red Dog

Lots has been written already about Google’s new initiative called App Engine, a preview-release developer platform for Python applications, and now Microsoft seems to be throwing itself in the ring - where Amazon and Salesforce are also to be found - in order to get at least a piece of the cloud computing buzz momentum. LiveSide spotted a job posting with clear mentions of the Microsoft Utility Computing Platform, code-named Red Dog, and it sounds very much like a platform for building a Google App Engine type service.

9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Hyper-V Release Candidate Now (Optional) Part Of Windows Update

Today, April 8, the Windows Update team is making the Hyper-V Release Candidate package available as an “Optional Update” via Windows Update for all Windows Server 2008 SKUs. It will also be published as an “Optional Update” to WSUS.

9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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