Microsoft is confident to take over VMWare
August 22, 2007
Network World has published a short interview with Mike Neil, General Manager for Virtualization Strategies at Microsoft.
Mike speaks all about critics, competition, licensing and feature delays focusing the upcoming Windows Server Virtualization, which first was a feature and now is an add-on to Windows Server 2008
Server virtualization is still a developing market and technology. Since, to a great degree, the utilization of virtualization has been in relatively confined areas, typically in large enterprises or infrastructure products like [VMware's] ESX Server, Microsoft will be able to have a much broader approach and make virtualization available to a wider swath of the industry.
From a competitive standpoint, it is a sexy feature and sounds really exciting. But, of the Microsoft customers using VMware or other virtualization technology, few are actually utilizing that type of functionality. It is a relatively sophisticated piece of technology to set up. The capabilities we do have and are shipping — our ability to cluster virtual machines and the ability to migrate quickly — will meet most customers’ needs.
Today, with the architectures we have, the hypervisor level of the software is being targeted by more and more of the malicious-software industry. You can see that by looking at the security updates that VMware has had. Microsoft has shown we have been responsive to the security threats out there and put in place the processes to make our products secure and react to any security issues.
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