* Posts by Brendan

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Citrix preaches 'second mover advantage' over VMware

Brendan

Do some research first

Another poor article on the virtualization space from The Register. I wonder if any research went into this article at all, considering some of the glaring inaccuracies like the following:

"Microsoft will fail to make such claims next year when it ships a revamped virtualization platform that lacks key tools such as the ability to move virtual machines around physical servers."

This is just plain incorrect: Virtual Machine Manager can do this today (http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default.mspx). If you're talking about high availability, then has been available for a while using Virtual Server and Microsoft Clustering Services (see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09cc042b-154f-4eba-a548-89282d6eb1b3&displaylang=en).

As for: "In reality though, it just may be the case that Microsoft never gets this virtualization thing quite right." I'm not quite sure what you're getting at: Virtual Server is here today, and it works. A windows server virtualization CTP was released alongside Windows Server 2008 RC0 just recently (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/virtualization/install.mspx), and it works. Microsoft offers virtualization management in the form of SCVMM (see above), which actually outshines VMWare's equivalent Virtual Center in some areas.

I know that MS is everyone's favourite punching bag, but how blatant does it have to be? Sheesh.