First of all, no matter how much memory you put into your system, it ain't enough. And this is true for all or at least most of the operating systems. Earlier this week Mark Russinovich wrote a blog post about "Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory." Needless to say, it is another...
Unable to resist I got myself a shiny, slim new MacBook Air (MBA). While I am used to Mac OS X, I wanted it to run Vista so I can also take it to work. My MBA has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 64GB solid state drive and I bought a SuperDrive . Here's how I installed Vista and why I did it 3 (three...
Mike Otey from Windows IT Pro took a look at our next generation virtualization product. Looks like he's pretty impressed. My favorite: "... Hyper-V, is a significant new competitor that has the potential to change the market." You'll find the article in the Feb issue and an excerpt...
A series for five short and comprehensive podcasts will be published on InfoWorld's blog. This week the first has been posted. Below some info about the complete series. The podcasts can be found here . Podcast Descriptions Episode One : Top Virtualization Myths Industry Analyst, Dan Kusnetzky, Principal...
Yesterday Microsoft published an executive email from Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Corporation on the Microsoft Virtualization strategy. It is titled "Harnessing the Power of Virtualization for Dynamic IT" and can be found here . The email covers the...
WSJ has a nice write-up of the state of affairs with Microsoft Virtualization technology Hyper-V and compares the latest Microsoft moves in Virtualization, including its acquisition of Calista Technologies Inc., to VMware. WSJ also talks about Intel's and Phoenix' move to enter the hypervisor...
Looks like there is some confusion about our Hyper-V product. The Microsoft Hypervisor is called Hyper-V (as announced today). It will only be available for 64-bit SKUs of Windows Server 2008. Also the Hyper-V standalone SKU is only available for 64-bit. To take advantage of the Microsoft Hyper-V technology...
With the keynote at IT Forum still going on, the press announcements accompanying the announcements made earlier in the keynote are out: Quote Sheet: Industry Partners Support Microsoft Hyper-V Server New Microsoft System Center Offerings Extend Management From Desktop to Datacenter Microsoft Outlines...
One of the largest Virtualization conferences of the industry seems to happen this week in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft Teched IT Forum . Obviously not a pure virtualization conference but the Microsoft technical event for IT professionals. But if you look at the number of sessions and the many different...