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October 13, 2011 | No comments

The Microsoft Cloud Power billboard on Highway 101 is obscured by a construction project. See who won last week's caption contest.

October 5, 2011 | 16 comments

Win a copy of the new VMware Workstation 8 by providing the best caption for a photo of the Microsoft Cloud Power billboard construction site.

June 9, 2011 | 10 comments

Learn Microsoft's trick behind the claim that VMware vSphere costs as much as five times more than Hyper-V.

May 24, 2011 | 6 comments

Some newcomers to virtualization don't know that VMware vSphere is the combination of VMware ESXi and vCenter Server. By launching a complete virtualization infrastructure platform, VMware can offer more advanced capabilities than the staggered Hyper-V releases from Microsoft.

April 1, 2011 | 29 comments

At MMS 2011, Microsoft presented a fake demonstration of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in a breakout session. But why?

January 24, 2011 | 3 comments

What would it be like to see Steve Ballmer's MacBook Pro, where he uses Evernote to devise his latest Microsoft executive transition plans.

January 17, 2011 | 1 comment

Last week VCritical hosted the vComeback Contest which received scores of responses. Now find out who the winners are!

January 10, 2011 | 84 comments

Your pithy response to Microsoft's latest cloud billboard could win you a copy of Maximum vSphere in the first-ever vComeback Contest!

October 26, 2009 | 9 comments

Bob Kelley, a Microsoft VP, recently made the claim that only 50 percent of all workloads will be virtualized. The rest of the industry clearly disagrees.

August 25, 2009 | 5 comments

It makes for great drama to say that VMware will not allow Microsoft Virtualization to exhibit their latest product -- but it is not true.

August 4, 2009 | 8 comments

So now it’s okay to just make up market share numbers? Last week Microsoft COO Kevin Turner made a shocking proclamation in this Dow Jones article: “We launched our first product in October of this past year. from then till now, we gained 24 points of market share against a very, very formidable competitor,” Turner [...]

July 23, 2009 | 13 comments

Unlike Storage VMotion from VMware, Quick Storage Migration requires a VM to suspend and be unavailable for a period of time, making it unsuitable for production.

June 1, 2009 | 8 comments

Over the past few months, VCritical has climbed in the Google search rankings for certain virtualization-related queries.  One especially notable search term is SCVMM, since there are quite a few articles written about that product on VCritical.  In fact, VCritical normally appears on the first page of Google search results for SCVMM — result number [...]

May 13, 2009 | 6 comments

Hyper-V is often downloaded to Windows Server systems that will never be used to run virtual machines. Making this an irrelevant metric for Hyper-V installed base figures.

April 15, 2009 | 2 comments

Have you seen the new look of Microsoft Virtualization?  Even though it’s new, it looks familiar to me for some reason.  Here is a sample of the design: It makes me think of clean, but not clean as in save the earth with clean energy.  More like scrubbing shower tile clean… Now that’s complete virtualization [...]

April 9, 2009 | 4 comments

The SVVP identifies VMware ESX releases that are supported by Microsoft. Customers are sometimes turned away unnecessarily due to lack of awareness.

March 13, 2009 | 19 comments

In a failed effort to acknowledge viability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft is caught posting false comments on VCritical.

February 19, 2009 | 4 comments

Hyper-V Linux guests (SUSE) do not yet have integration components or customization capabilities. Nor can you P2V a Linux system to Hyper-V.

February 3, 2009 | 1 comment

System Center Virtual Machine Manager is limited to managing virtual machines (VMs). Claims that SCVMM can manage physical infrastructure are misleading.

December 4, 2008 | 4 comments

Ever wonder what the salary difference is between an MCSE and a VCP?  Here is one perspective: VCP $123,000 MCSE $66,000 View Larger Salary Graph

November 5, 2008 | 8 comments

Initially, Hyper-V Server was sort of a mystery.  Some kind of “bare metal hypervisor” that “is not Windows” sounded peculiar.  Details were scarce.  Some thought it would be like ESXi, a small-footprint design that can be embedded in a server via flash memory.  As you know, it turned out to be nothing more than Windows [...]