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I just read Mitchell Ashley’s Network World blog from last Friday.  He cautions that feature limitations won’t slow Hyper-V in its march to the data center.  He also predicts that VMware will be quick to point out feature deficiencies.   I agree with Mitchell that Microsoft is poised to make inroads despite having a lighter feature set.  [...]

Now that Hyper-V is officially shipping you can expect to see a series of new developments in the data center virtualization market.  Microsoft appears to be leveraging Hyper-V and virtualization to extend the reach of Server 2008 versus launching it as a head to head offering versus ESX.   Microsoft clearly wants to play to its incumbent [...]