Windows Server 8 is every bit as big a release Windows 8. It's big in a different way—evolution rather than revolution—but the improvements are extensive and their consequences far-reaching.

Microsoft Corp. has seen the light and is here to help with Hyper-V (previously known by its code name, Viridian, or by the previous brand name, Windows Server Virtualization), which was released ...

In Windows Server 2016 the HGS service needed a three-node, physical server cluster to ensure security, resulting in high costs. In addition to Windows VMs, Linux VMs can now be shielded. Networking ...

Windows Server has long included support for nested virtualization through Hyper-V. Although I have used nested Hyper-V several times, I've never considered whether it is possible to do nested ...

Presently, Nano Server is still a full operating system, but with the Redstone 3 release of Windows later this year, that's going to change. It's going to be a strictly container-only deployment.

Users can open System Information (msinfo32.exe) to check if VBS is running and confirm that the Hyper-V role is not ...

AppZero is collaborating with Microsoft to persuade users of Windows Server 2003 to update before Microsoft stops supporting the operating system using AppZero's application virtualization technology.

On the virtualization front for Windows Server 2008, it's not just Microsoft's own Hyper-V that isn't quite ready for prime-time. Several other Windows-Server-2008-based virtualization products ...

If you haven't had the opportunity to see Microsoft's next generation virtualization hypervisor platform, you are in luck. Jeff Woolsey, a lead program manager on the Windows virtualization team ...

Whereas server virtualization is mostly a straightforward concept, ... A Type 2 hypervisor is really an application, like Windows Virtual PC, ...

New servers licensed with Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition will now have the license rights to run an unlimited number of virtualized Windows Server instances.