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VMware vSphere pricing - Meet the new price; same as the old price, only more

Mon, 05/04/2009 - 22:00 — WSV_GUY

Hi, I'm Edwin Yuen, a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization team.  This past week, there were two key announcements made, one by Microsoft and one by VMware, that have an impact on how we compare Microsoft and VMware pricing. 

The first announcement was actually off this blog,

The vSphere Cloud Operating System: Extra Layer, Extra Cost?

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 16:30 — porourke

Hi, I’m David Greschler, director of Microsoft virtualization and management. Today VMware announced their new “Cloud OS,” called vSphere.  It’s an interesting announcement in that it points out more clearly than ever that VMware adds an extra layer to the computing stack.

March 31 live web chat

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 00:24 — porourke

On Tuesday, March 31, Microsoft's Edwin Yuen will be hosting a live web chat 11am-3pm EST. Edwin is a sr. technical product manager. Edwin came to Microsoft with the acquisition of Softricity (and the SoftGrid application virtualization technology). He now also covers Hyper-V and System Center VMM.

SCVMM and VMware ESX management

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:43 — porourke

The threat of virtualization sprawl. That was a theme my colleagues heard last week at IDC's "Directions" conference in San Jose. And true to IDC's form, they backed up their predictions with some numbers.

Virtualization Review's hypervisor test

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 04:09 — porourke

The other day, Virtualization Review published a comparative performance test of three hypervisors: VMware ESX 3.5, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

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