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Cisco extends Microsoft support in datacentre portfolio

Cisco last week extended its datacentre product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective datacentre and Cloud architectures for joint customers.

By Jim Duffy | 15 April, 2013 13:55

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Windows, hardware systems, Data Center, operating systems, cloud computing, internet, hypervisor, server, Windows Server 2012, virtualization, Microsoft, Cloud, cisco, software
NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V

NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.

By Jim Duffy | 22 January, 2013 18:57

Tags: Microsoft Hyper-V, Networking, switches, ipv6, LAN & WAN, NEC, hypervisor, networking hardware, OpenFlow, SDN, Microsoft, Ethernet Switch, NEC switch
What's next with hypervisors?

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

By John Dix | 13 December, 2011 22:28

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, IBM, hardware systems, xenserver, Data Center, operating systems, Oracle, hypervisor, virtualization, kvm, IDC, hyper-v, software, Red Hat, non-Windows, VMware, open source, Linux, xen
New local Cloud built with Linux-based KVM hypervisor

A Sydney-based IT services provider has built a public Cloud with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation hypervisor instead of one of the better-known commercial or open source products making it one of the first of its kind in Australia.

By Rodney Gedda | 14 June, 2011 11:23

Tags: Evolution Systems, open source, Linux, kvm, Red Hat, cloud computing, VMware, virtualisation, hypervisor
Citrix unveils bare-metal desktop hypervisor, ahead of VMware

Citrix is unveiling its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, known as XenClient, with a test version being released for download this week and general availability expected within a few months.

By Jon Brodkin | 13 May, 2010 04:42

Tags: servers, storage, Data Centre, citrix., VMware, virtualisation, hypervisor

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VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns

VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that rival virtualization vendors claim they would not impose.

By Jon Brodkin | 03 September, 2009 23:36

Tags: virtualization, Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, hypervisor