The Life of a Silicon Valley Rockstar

Microsoft announced this morning that their new virtualization platform, Hyper-V, has launched. NetworkWorld leaked the story last night (don’t they have an NDA??) and published a full story this morning. This dovetails with the buzz I started at NetworkWorld yesterday afternoon by claiming Hyper-V will kill VMWare. That started a religious war in the blogosphere overnight and there’s a great discussion going on over at BroadDev.

John Furrier called VMWare out while John Casaretto did a deep dive on his experience with VMWare and wondered if Hyper-V was all hype. Taken from my NWW article, “Hyper-V is a LOT more friendly for Windows admins and it doesn’t require any of the core Linux skills that installing and tuning an ESX server does. The combination of easy to use and free has been Google’s trademark strategy. Microsoft may have taken a page from their book on this one and I think it’s very likely to succeed.”