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 ...

Microsoft’s Windows Server Division has announced the public availability of a beta of Hyper-V, the much anticipated hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. The beta release is early. It wasn’t expected ...

One of the biggest problems with traditional networking is it lacks the agility to quickly adapt to changing business needs. You may need to make major topology changes to a physical network. However, ...

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, ...

“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 ...

Hyper-V administrators can quickly resolve four common errors by identifying their root causes--from permissions and VM ...

[ 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 ...

Summary: NEC's new virtual switch brings Hyper-V closer to being an acceptable alternative to VMware. In a potentially game changing move, NEC today announced their PF1000 virtual switch that runs on ...