Rackspace is now taking names for their beta program for Cloud Servers for Windows. They plan to launch the beta in early 2010 with competitive pricing (vs their Linux servers):
Cloud Servers for Windows Server Size
Hourly Charge
512 MB
$ 0.04
1 GB
$ 0.08
2 GB
$ 0.16
4 GB
$ [...]
A few days ago, Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux Kernel. This code is three device drivers that will make it more possible for Linux to run smoothly in a Hyper-V virtual machine! This is really out of the ordinary. It seems Microsoft is realizing that running Linux is desirable as a [...]
I was just reading an interesting article on ZDNet about how the adoption of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 could be accelerated thanks to virtualization becoming more mainstream.
The worries in the past with almost every new version of Windows have always been that program X or device Y will not be compatible with the latest Windows. [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that USB is not supported on the enterprise virtualization platform (VMware’s ESX and Microsoft’s Hyper-V to name the big players). My question is: why not? I posed to this to our VMware rep recently during a “roadmap” discussion and the best answer that I got was that it’s not in their [...]
The Terminal Services Team at Microsoft has announced when they will release App-V 4.5, their application virtualization solution, formerly known as SoftGrid. It will be available for download on November 1st on VLSC.
From their blog:
App-V 4.5 for Terminal Services provides new and easier ways to deploy and manage applications on terminal servers — reducing cost [...]
Recently, several sources have speculated as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to purchase Citrix. Some sources said that Microsoft would buy Citrix before VMware’s VMworld Conference, but clearly that did not happen. However, it is thought that an announcement, if at all, might be made in the next few days.
This raises the question…why? [...]
Remember those days of needing to defrag Windows machines? Oh wait… those days are still with us. And now the situation is worse with virtual machines and the disk mapping between the guest and host.
Well… Diskeeper has announced that their Diskeeper 2008 product has been certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It will [...]