A new IT buzzword (that is, hot on the heels of the now fairly worn "cloud") is software-defined networking. Driven by the need for data center networks to be more agile and policy driven than ...

Hyper-V Network Virtualization enables the Windows administrator to perform many of the functions that were previously in the network administrator's domain. For instance, Virtual Machine Manager lets ...

“Windows Server 2012 innovations in SDN such as Hyper-V Network Virtualization help enterprises cloud-optimize IT. Huawei's Hyper-V Network Virtualization gateway, gives virtualized networks and ...

Server virtualization epitomizes the benefits of abstracting logical IT resources from their physical manifestation. Hypervisors like VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V create immense efficiencies ...

In just over a year, Microsoft went from having basically no real enterprise-class server virtualization technology to one that is at par and has VMware scared and running. Back in the middle of 2008, ...

F5 Networks today announced a forthcoming network virtualization product that is designed to move virtual machines (VMs) from traditional datacenters to those based on Windows Server 2012, while ...

Companies of all sizes are looking to virtualization as a seemingly game-changing scenario. Server consolidation, energy efficiency, increased capacity, and simpler management and deployment are all ...

Late to the virtualization game, Microsoft has been running several lengths behind the competition in this space for years. However, the new features and strong performance present in Windows Server ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

Ten years ago the argument over virtualization would have been a short one because VMware was the only game in town, but that early dominance is now being significantly challenged by Microsoft, Citrix ...