VMware is clearly the top player in virtualization, but competitors such as Citrix and Microsoft want a piece of this hot market, too. VMware owns the lion’s share of the virtualization market in ...

SDN, or software-defined software, is one of the latest networking strategies. Open Networking Foundation defines ''a network control plane that controls several devices and is physically separated ...

There's a ferocious battle going on in the software-defined networking market between onetime allies VMware and Cisco Systems. To shed light on their respective SDN strategies, CRN spoke with Steve ...

Debate has broken out over whether Microsoft’s Hyper-V meets enterprise disaster recovery requirements. Disaster recovery has become table stakes in the world of server virtualization. Any good ...

VMware has enjoyed a long run as king of x86 server virtualization, and the pioneering vendor remains the one to beat when tallying enterprise market share. But its competitors, particularly Microsoft ...

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 ...

Because the software industry is booming with continued digital transformation and hybrid activities, prominent companies in this space, VMware (VMW) and Nutanix (NTNX), should witness increasing ...

VirtualBox 5.0's new features add ease and flexibility, but VMware Workstation 11 leads in performance and convenience Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation have been duking it out for several ...

My site is anxiously waiting for Hyper-V 3. Personally, I'd rather be using VMWare but Microsoft's licensing makes it impossible to consider anything else. Hopefully they've improved the stability ...

I was just reading the tail end of this very long thread where Hyper-V in Windows Server 8 is being discussed: Sounds like there's a good deal of features here that are quite expensive if you go the ...

Shortly after I wrote about Win4Lin a few weeks ago, I was bombarded with questions from readers asking how it compares to VMware. Win4Lin is a product that allows you to install and run Windows 95 or ...

Disaster recovery has become table stakes in the world of server virtualization. Any good virtualization platform these days will find a way to restart a virtual machine in the event of a hardware ...