A new IT buzzword (that is, hot on the heels of the now fairly worn "cloud") is software-defined networking. Driven by the need for data center networks to be more agile and policy driven than ...

A new Network Controller and the same software-defined networking (SDN) stack in the Microsoft Azure cloud are among the significant SDN capabilities coming to Windows Server 2016. Microsoft's quest ...

“Windows Server 2012 innovations in SDN such as Hyper-V Network Virtualization help enterprises cloud-optimize IT. Huawei's Hyper-V Network Virtualization gateway, gives virtualized networks and ...

One of the biggest problems with traditional networking is it lacks the agility to quickly adapt to changing business needs. You may need to make major topology changes to a physical network. However, ...

Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro with NVGRE offload simplifies cloud deployments, extends scalability and maximizes application performance in Windows Server Hyper-V based infrastructures "With Windows Server ...

Introduction: Microsoft Client Hyper-V is a flexible, robust, and high-performance client virtualization technology that enables IT pros and developers to run multiple operating system instances ...

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company’s march toward services-based computing. Microsoft ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

Saving about $2 million was the primary reason international business-facility management firm ABM decided to convert its virtual infrastructure from VMware’s vSphere to Microsoft’s Hyper-V, but that ...