Microsoft's virtualisation offering was like tyres without a car, according to Paul Harapin, VMware's Asia Pacific vice president, who today said his company's future direction would put it in increasing conflict with Redmond.
A confident VMware chief executive Paul Maritz today laughed off attempts by Microsoft staff to conduct a guerrilla marketing campaign at VMware's annual worldwide conference in Las Vegas.
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMware for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.
VMware on Tuesday announced the abrupt departure of founder and CEO Diane Greene, replacing her with former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.
Microsoft began a major virtualisation push late yesterday, with the introduction of new virtualisation tools and by making its core hypervisor product free of charge.
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The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware.
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SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.
If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.
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Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.
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