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Microsoft Charges Ahead in Virtualization

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) this week gave further signs that it’s ready to challenge virtualization leader VMware on its home turf, taking the wraps off its Hyper-V Server 2008 and revealing that another key virtualization component is only weeks away. The company said Hyper-V Server 2008 will be available free on the Web, while System Center […]

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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) this week gave further signs that it’s ready to challenge virtualization leader VMware on its home turf, taking the wraps off its Hyper-V Server 2008 and revealing that another key virtualization component is only weeks away.

The company said Hyper-V Server 2008 will be available free on the Web, while System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 will be available within 30 days. SCVMM 2008 handles configuration, deployment and centralized management of enterprises’ virtualized infrastructure in connection with solutions from both Microsoft and VMware.

The announcements came during the first in a global series of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) marketing events promoting the Redmond, Wash. software colossus’s virtualization solutions.

This week’s event, held in nearby Bellevue, Wash., is also a preemptive swipe at virtualization market king VMware, which is holding its own VMworld 2008 user conference next week in Las Vegas. While VMware (NYSE: VMW) will hold court next week, Microsoft’s product updates as well as its highlighting of a slew of key partners and customers at the event underscores its determination to carve out a share of the virtualization market.

It also further demonstrates Microsoft’s success in rapidly mobilizing itself for a move into the area, following signs that came when the company released its Hyper-V hypervisor (define) ahead of schedule earlier this year.

In addition to the updates on Hyper-V Server 2008 and on SCVMM — a part of the Microsoft System Center suite of products, which provides centralized management of physical and virtual resources — Microsoft this week also demonstrated a live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2).

Live migration, which involves moving a virtual machine from one physical server to another while its running, has been one area in which Microsoft is playing catch-up. VMware has offered live migration since 2004, while Citrix-owned XenSource, supplier of the open source Xen hypervisor, has done so since last year. The next version of the Microsoft Hyper-V server will have the live migration capabilities, Microsoft said.

The company also announced that Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, which helps virtualize Windows Vista, would be included as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, scheduled for general availability sometime in the next few weeks.

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Richard Adhikari is an experienced writer who specializes in high tech. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, mobile technologies, CRM, databases, software development, mainframe, and mid-range computing, and application development. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including eSecurity Planet and Serverwatch. He is the author of two books on client/server technology.

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