A $4.6m NEC server using Microsoft Windows has grabbed high marks in a closely watched performance ranking traditionally dominated by machines running the Unix operating system. The fifth-place ranking on the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C...
Microsoft is working to solve an incompatibility issue that prevents backups made with Windows Server 2003 from being read on previous versions of Windows. The software giant's latest operating system saves data to tape using a slightly different...
Virtualization, an emerging technology which is garnering growing interest from corporate customers, allows a server to run multiple instances of an operating system. We've made a long-term commitment to make sure that non-Windows operating systems...
The features will be included in a future version of Viridian, formally called Windows Server Virtualization, the company said. In a blog posting, the general manager of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, Mike Neil, said the company is making...
He said: "Of most interest are new features around improving resilience and failover and clustering in more environments. Microsoft's newly-launched Windows Server 2008 has been given a cautious welcome by customers.
Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology. Hyper-V, launched on Thursday, is not Microsoft's first...