I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal... The budget is $14K CDN for new server ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

Microsoft pricing for Server 2008 and the Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor was announced on Monday. Probably the two most interesting things about the pricing is that Server 2008 stays pretty close ...

With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has introduced a lengthy list of improvements to Hyper-V. Along with functional additions like container support, nested virtualization, and increased memory and ...

The Windows 10 October 2018/1809 release was Microsoft's most problematic feature update wave (so far, anyway). After pulling and reissuing the 1809 releases, one particular variant remained missing - ...

Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, the company's standalone server virtualization solution, includes the same two features highlighted with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server ...

Although Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduced an overwhelming number of new features, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces even more. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft did a good job of ...

With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

Microsoft brings its bare-metal hypervisor platform, Hyper-V Server 2008, to market and makes it a freely downloadable virtualization product Last week, Microsoft announced that it had shipped its ...