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[INFOGRAPHICS] Essential facts on Microsoft virtualization

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:17:42 +0000

Microsoft holds 27% of the virtualization market. Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly. The Microsoft Virtualization community has 1,397 members. These and some other interesting facts on Microsoft virtualization can be found in this new infographics, provided exclusively for this site by Conosco. Tags: virtualization Related [VIDEO] How to install Hyper-V Server 2008?...

MVP for the third year in a row!

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:43:04 +0000

I have been rewarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the 2012! Althouhg I don’t write much lately and don’t deliver many technical presentations, I’m still quite involved in Microsoft community. This is my third MVP award, and I‘m very proud of it! I’m very happy to be recognized by Microsoft for [...]

V-Index – how much is virtualization being used?

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:04:48 +0000

V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of at least 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use. Results for quarter 3 [...]

Where am I?

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:49:39 +0000

Uh, haven’t been here lately. I’m fine, in case you’re worried . I have just been very busy lately and I just didn’t have time (and a good will) to write some posts. I even missed to write some news about Windows Server 8 and new Hyper-V (many interesting news there). I’m starting a company [...]

Differences Between MACs and PCs

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:21 +0000

In the last several years, Apple has gotten a lot of attention and has made big strides in capturing large portions of the market. Their brand is recognized the world over and they’ve become a major player in the tech market. Given this fact, there are still many people who refuse to make that switch. [...]

Microsoft virtualization whitepapers

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:25:12 +0000

Two virtualization whitepapers have been recently published to introduce Hyper-V and Microsoft desktop virtualization. These whitepapers will be useful to everyone with only basic knowledge of virtualization and consider using it in their environment to reduce costs and improve business agility. Whitepaper #1: Everything you need to know about implementing Hyper-V. Aidan Finn provides [...]

Linux Integration Services 3.1 for Hyper-V

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:38:30 +0000

Microsoft has released version 3.1. of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services are a set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. The supported operating systems for 3.1 are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 and 6.1 x86 and x64 (Up to 4 vCPU) and [...]

Windows Server 8 sneak peek

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:55:54 +0000

At the 2011 Microsoft worldwide partner conference, Jeff Woolsey showed a first sneak peek of the Windows Server codename “8”. As he said, Windows Server 8 will bring us a dozen of new features, but he demoed two, both connected with Hyper-V. Virtual machines with more than 16 logical processors Hyper-V replica, which will allow [...]

Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows 8!!!

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:58:22 +0000

Leaked Windows 8 builds revealed one new feature: Hyper-V 3.0! Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows 8 will be installed via Control panel, offering a dozen new features. New features: Storage Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Storage Resource Pools New .VHDX virtual hard drive format (Up to 16TB + power failure resiliency) Memory/Processor Enhancements Support for more [...]

Microsoft adds support for the CentOS on Hyper-V

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:34:40 +0000

As a part of its interoperability efforts, Microsoft announced it will add support for the CentOS on Hyper-V. CentOS, operating system used mostly in hosting environment, will now be supported by Microsoft and integration components will be available for the installation. As I know, so far hosting companies have been using virtualized CentOS, but probably [...]