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• VMTurbo upgrade supports the three major virtualization platforms

  VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.

• What's next with hypervisors?

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

• Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware

  After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features -- and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant says.

• Hitachi goes 3D with new virtualised storage platform

  Hitachi Data Systems is bargaining on the three-dimensional marketing trend in home entertainment to push its latest virtualised storage platform, promising the ability for customers to "scale up, out and deep" in data centres.

• Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers

  A storage start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.

• Citrix debuts disaster recovery app

  Citrix has developed disaster recovery software that uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to help automate and speed the recovery process.

• Microsoft: We’re gaining server virtualisation market share

  Microsoft is starting to make serious headway in the server virtualisation market based on a ‘free’ technology and lower cost of management argument, according to the company’s global head of virtualisation, Zane Adam.

• With Hyper-V R2, Microsoft sets its sights on VMware

  Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.

• Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says

  Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group.

• Microsoft Linux move puts pressure on VMware

  Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.

• Citrix releases free XenServer 5.5, new community portal

  Citrix Systems has announced the availability of Citrix XenServer 5.5, a free server virtualisation hypervisor based on the open source Xen project.

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  NSW Electoral Commission goes Hyper-V over VMware

  The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) has selected Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform over the more mature VMware for its server consolidation project.

• Xen 3.4.0 released with more client device, Hyper-V integration

  Xen, the de facto virtualization hypervisor for Linux and the basis of Citrix's commercial products, has reached version 3.4.0 bringing improved support for client devices, integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, better reliability and power management, and many CPU-level big fixes.

• Microsoft to offer more goodies in free Hyper-V Server update

  Ratcheting up the competition with virtualization market leader VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp. will include a number of advanced features in its upcoming free server hypervisor software.

• Microsoft runs cannibalization risk with low-end server push

  Microsoft runs the risk of cannibalizing some server sales with the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition, a low-end version of the server operating system that will ship installed on servers that cost as little as US$500. But the potential boost of expanding the market for low-end servers outweighs the risk of losing some sales of more expensive versions of the operating system, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday.