Sometimes I have heard in different circles that VMware has a “purpose built hypervisor”, and can be installed independently of the host operating system and free, while Microsoft’s not. The reality is that Hyper-V is installed under Windows Server (between the hardware and the host operating system). Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is a hypervisor-based…
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Be ready to Transform the Datacenter
Bed of Cloud by Prashant Dobhal As probably you know (if not, now you know), Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 will be available for download evaluation version for elegible customers through the TechNet Evaluation Center on October 18, 2013. They comes with a lot of new features and more power to…
Moving my on-premises servers to the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines
One of the big new features of the Windows Azure Spring Release is the Windows Azure Virtual Machines feature, and as you has saw in the previous posts Hello World! Windows Azure Spring Release is Here! (IaaS, Media Services, Web Sites…) Part I and Part II deploy a new VM is pretty easy and fast,…
Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud
Register Now for this virtual event. Tuesday, January 17th @ 8:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC, the webcast will feature Satya Nadella and Brad Anderson. Sharing Microsoft’s vision for the future of private cloud. Also featured will be an executive panel with Q&A (Brad Anderson, Jacky Wright, Rand Morimoto), on private cloud guidance and best…
The Microsoft Private Cloud – A technology overview (by David Chappell)
A very interesting and enlightening article by David Chappell about IaaS (aka private cloud): “[…] there’s a clear definition of "private cloud" that pretty much all analysts and vendors in this space agree on. It’s not the same thing as ordinary virtualization, nor is it legitimate to start calling your datacenter a private cloud without…