Lots of folks are trying to save money in their data centers by optimizing their infrastructure usage with virtualization. Interestingly enough, with the release of Hyper-V and Microsoft’s program for hardware virtualization vendors, the support policy for Exchange and other applications has changed. A couple of weeks ago, a post […]
Virtualization
Virtualized Performance: Fusion vs. VirtualBox
Been playing around a little bit with VMware’s Fusion 2.0 and Sun’s VirtualBox 2.1.2, two virtualization platforms that are available for Mac users. I will eventually expand this brief test to include Parallels 4.0, since it seems that Parallels and Fusion are the frontrunners when it comes to virtualization on […]
Ballmer on Virtualization
Interesting quote from Steve Ballmer on virtualization that he gave during his September 25 Churchill Club speech: “If you want virtualization on 80 percent of servers instead of 5 percent of servers, you better not charge three times as much as the price of the server for the virtualization,” Ballmer […]