| VMware vs Microsoft in virtualisation battle |
| Wednesday, 29 March 2006 by Michel Roth | ||||
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"With the recruitment of IBM, Intel, AMD and CA, among others, to a community aimed at framing an industry standard for virtualisation, VMware is planning to have a powerful counter-attack for anything Microsoft can dream up as part of Vista. Virtualisation in its fullest form allows an operating system to “break free” of dependence on a particular collection of underlying hardware, says VMware’s Sydney-based managing director Paul Harapin. This not only allows a number of software servers to run on the same underlying hardware, it means a server can be relocated from one processor to another, with its state at that moment completely preserved." Read it here.
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