Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

Microsoft arrived late to the virtualization market and still has some holes in its product portfolio. As it fights for market share, partners say the company's traditional strategy of pricing ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Really, CPU power is only as important as you want it to be, or, for testing, that is plenty. RAM is important, since VS or VPC will only run with physical RAM. So, if you want to run 4 guest OS's, ...