Vizioncore's management tool vFoglight will work with Microsoft's virtualization platform Hyper-V by the middle of the year and with Xen from Citrix by the end of the year, the company said Wednesday at Cebit....

To stay ahead of Microsoft, VMware will have to cut prices, bolster security, simplify management and successfully navigate the desktop and the cloud.

Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.

By Alex Williams

VMware's acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo points to a new form of partnership in the tech word. It's one that could define the big winners in the battle for a major piece of the enterprise market.

The acquisition shows how VMware is seeking to do more than provide virtualization technology. By packaging Zimbra's popular, open-source collaboration software, VMware can provide a more enhanced service, one that combines virtualization technology with email and calendar applications.

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will invest $250 million over three years on a product integration strategy meant to "significantly simplify" technology deployments for companies of all sizes, they said Wednesday. The agreement will employ a new "infrastructure-to-application" model and result in prepackaged offerings that combine servers, storage, networking and applications.

Microsoft and HP disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation datacenter technology and application infrastructure.

By Rich Brambley

Forget the feature matrix with all the check marks. Forget the price comparison and the price per virtual machine or cost per application. For the sake of consideration, assume an “apples to...

Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).

VKernel now offers a version of its Capacity Analyzer for Hyper-V, signaling the virtualization management company's new focus on Microsoft virtualization.

By Eric Gray

Most enterprise virtualization deployments make use of a robust shared storage infrastructure.  A high-performance SAN allows multiple hypervisors to access virtual machine disks and is the foundation for amazing virtualization benefits such as VMware vMotion and HA.  There are other benefits, too.