Microsoft's Server and Tools Business did the virtual conference thing for industry analysts last week. Fellow analyst Judith Hurwitz ably describes the limitations of this format. I concur with much ...

Do you have situations where users work from home, connecting from personal devices? Do you trust those devices and the networks they're connecting from? Do you have compliance regulations that ...

Microsoft is offering a new service to offload virtualization tasks and speed cloud instance performance. The company this week announced a preview of Azure Boost, a new system that offloads ...

'The cost of owning and operating a virtualization environment now has really gotten much cheaper, much easier, simpler to deploy [and] manage,’ Microsoft’s Scott Manchester tells CRN. Microsoft ...

Over the last few years, I've read and listened to numerous complaints from people about Microsoft not being fully invested in virtualization, that the software giant was simply sticking their big toe ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

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A powerful Windows-native virtualization stack that trades polish for control and flexibility ...

Microsoft arrived late to the virtualization market and still has some holes in its product portfolio. As it fights for market share, partners say the company's traditional strategy of pricing ...

Virtualization is as critical a technology for Microsoft as its operating systems. But an awful lot of fiction circulates about virtualization and Microsoft’s role in the market, including Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V and its other virtualization technologies help push the company further into the virtualization community -- a new product launch event and user group could be the start. With the ...