Microsoft recently rolled out Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. The update for Microsoft’s flagship server OS includes a number of features to improve and enhance managing virtual servers with Windows ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

The good folks at Symantec sent me some information about their recently-released Windows Server 2012 Migration/Virtualization Survey. After reading through the study findings, I am impressed by how ...

Although Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduced an overwhelming number of new features, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces even more. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft did a good job of ...

While working on an article about using vRealize Log Insight's (vRLI) built-in archiving utility, I needed an NFS server to act as its archive repository. I have a Windows Server 2012 in my lab and ...

Virtualization is playing a big role in the rationale behind the streamlining of the product and pricing structure for the new Windows Server 2012. Microsoft has put forward the simplified licensing ...

Last year, Microsoft announced plans to host Linux in virtual machines -- along with Windows Server VMs -- in Windows Azure. But that's not the end of what Microsoft is doing to try to make its ...

[ 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 ...

Adrian Simays, Microsoft Global Applications Technical Enablement EMC, discussed the long-standing partnership between EMC and Microsoft with theCube hosts Dave Vellante and David Floyer live at EMC ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dell today announced it will enable Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V as a viable hypervisor choice for the OpenStack cloud platform. This development, which is the ...

Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...