Here's a rundown of how to use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter to switch from VMware hypervisors to Hyper-V. A growing number of organizations are starting to show an interest in using Microsoft ...

It’s always fun to keep your eyes open for useful and interesting free tools that help make your job easier. Because these tools are free, you don’t have to beg for budget or write up a justification ...

Businesses around the world have embraced virtualization because it can deliver high performance and reduce both capital and operational expenditures, while freeing up valuable IT resources. The rise ...

Back at TechEd 2012, Microsoft released a free tool into beta testing aimed at helping vSphere admins convert Windows virtual machines to Hyper-V (I wrote about it here). It's nifty, but check out ...

With the imminent release of Windows Server 2016, due to be launched some time in September with its new per-core licensing, Microsoft is making a concerted effort to win over VMware users and get ...

VMWare also has a significant number of features a lot of their customers never use and yet still pay for. In my mind VMWare remains the 800lb gorilla in the enterprise virtualization space (and for ...

Facilities solutions specialist ABM has more than 100,000 employees and customers around the world, all served by a small IT team struggling to deliver IT services to its constituents. It needed to ...

Saving about $2 million was the primary reason international business-facility management firm ABM decided to convert its virtual infrastructure from VMware’s vSphere to Microsoft’s Hyper-V, but that ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...