Microsoft ships Hyper-V
Posted in Network Management on June 27th, 2008
Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five years and is a major play in the company’s march toward services-based computing.
Hyper-V, which was code named Viridian and Windows Server virtualization, hit its release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage and will be posted on the company’s Web site today. It also will be available via automatic update starting July 8.
Hyper-V is free to users with a Windows Server 2008 license.
Microsoft originally said Hyper-V would ship “within 180 days of the shipment of Windows Server 2008,” which was Feb. 27. Most experts had pegged August as the delivery time frame, but in April Microsoft began to hint that the software would come in June or July. Regardless, the technology has been late in arriving given that it was originally slated for inclusion with Windows Server 2008.
By Mohammad Sahebjamee