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• What's up with VMware?

  In some people's eyes, VMware has had a tough past couple of weeks.

• 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.

• Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware

  After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features -- and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant says.

• Cisco and Microsoft to bring network-layer management to Hyper-V

  Windows Server 8 looks promising enough that Cisco Systems is queuing up two new products designed to extend its network controls to Hyper-V virtual environments when Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 sometime next year.

• Microsoft partner tackles storage in virtual datacentres

  A storage virtualisation start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualised datacentres.

• Hyper-V adds flexibility but brings new risks

  Virtualising a datacentre can make it more flexible, but it also introduces new points of failure and it doesn't remove the need for critical servers to be duplicated for fail-over, disaster recovery (DR) specialist Neverfail has warned.

• Microsoft plays up Hyper-V versus VMware

  Microsoft is the new competitor in the virtualization market, but executives outlined some of the reasons they think the company can dominate it during a Microsoft virtualization event in Bellevue, Washington, on Monday.

• Microsoft vs VMware: the hypervisor wars

  As Microsoft readies Hyper-V, the new hypervisor software that forms the foundation for virtualisation in Windows Server 2008, VMware is finally facing some real competition in the Windows server virtualisation market. Unfortunately, Microsoft has followed in VMware's footsteps by creating its own, proprietary way of doing things, and VMware doesn't want to play along. The result: IT departments face a choice between two virtualisation options that are incompatible.

• Hyper-V to be released locally soon

  In New Zealand, the Hyper-V goes on sale in August. Regarding pricing, Microsoft’s Windows Server marketing manager, Tovia Va’aelua, says “whilst $US28 can only serve as indicative pricing for New Zealand, we are confident that stand-alone Hyper-V will be priced competitively for the market.