Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. VMmark measures the performance ...

ESX pulled down top honors in most of our basic load testing, multi-CPU VM hosting, and disk I/O performance tests. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, however, did well in a few cases, namely when we used a special ...

Cloud start-ups seem to be popping out from everywhere these days, and they’re bringing with them a great deal of innovation matching the biggest names in the industry. The first and perhaps most ...

When we declared VMware’s ESX virtual machine platform to be the performance winner against Micosoft’s Hyper-V. When we declared VMware’s ESX virtual machine platform to be the performance winner ...

VMware has released a whitepaper that shows performance increases in vSphere 6.0 over vSphere 5.5. It has some interesting results -- how real-world valuable they are is another matter. One of the ...