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Will Carmine Be Enough In Microsoft's Fight Against VMware? |
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Friday, 05 May 2006
by Michel Roth
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An interesting read on infoworld.com: If there was one thing that I thought was missing from Microsoft's Virtual Server product, it is and has been for some time now a centralized management tool. But now, it appears as though Microsoft has heard the call and answered it by preparing a Virtual Server Manager code-named Carmine. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of information known about the project right now. What has been reported is Carmine will not be as sophisticated as VMware VirtualCenter but that it will provide users with the ability to add, delete, move and patch virtual machines on its virtualization platform. But is that enough? And is it too little too late? And when can we expect it? And how much will it cost? There are so many questions.
But VMware isn't wasting any time, and they don't seem to be phased by the news. VMware seems to be on track with delivering its own product, a new version and more up-to-date version of VirtualCenter and combining it with a newer release of VMware ESX Server, version 3.0. Both products are on target to be released by the end of this quarter.
Read the whole article here.
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