On April 16, 2006, I wrote (in another unnnamed tech pub) about Microsoft's plans for a virtual machine management platform , then code-named "Carmine," which was being designed for Microsoft's much ...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 allows users to use the same tools to manage both virtual and physical assets Microsoft released its first software designed specifically to manage virtual ...

With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are.

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of its Virtual Machine Manager, which is designed to help companies manage their virtualization deployments. The software, which should be ready by the end of the year, ...

Yesterday, we asked Microsoft when Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 would ship. (We asked via Microsoft’s experimental Twitter hashtag, #qs4ms.) Due to the power of Twitter, the ...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday released its first software designed specifically to manage virtual machines on a network, and tweaked licensing for its system management products to take into account ...

It’s time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...

Microsoft will release the third version of its Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) this fall and the key new feature will be the return of support for physical to virtual conversions. MVMC is ...

Secure and patch those powered-off Microsoft virtual machines with the latest version of Microsoft's free Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Microsoft has quickly updated its patch management ...

One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so that they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. I will tell you ...

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) Windows Server updates to address a known issue breaking virtual machine (VM) creation on Hyper-V hosts after installing this month's Patch Tuesday ...