Jon Brodkin

Microsoft disputes criticism that it lacks critical recovery features. Debate has broken out over this topic since the Burton Group declared that Microsoft's Hyper-V is not enterprise-ready because it lacks a specific feature found in both the VMware and Citrix hypervisors

The VMforce cloud platform in development by VMware and Salesforce.com can technically be used to build any Java application

The company's software suite presents the "most complicated lock-in decision in years," according to the Burton Group. "If you go forward with all of the 2010 products you will be a Microsoft shop for the foreseeable future," says one analyst

Virtualization diminishes importance of operating systems, VMware says. CEO Paul Maritz said OSes are having their jobs stolen by virtualization and open development frameworks

Announced in 2008, VMware's bare-metal desktop hypervisor is nowhere to be seen. Citrix beat VMware to the market in May with XenClient

No single article can cover everything you need to know about Microsoft licenses. But here are five tips that could save your business money when it comes time to upgrade or purchase new Microsoft software

Cisco CTO Ed Bugnion was one of five VMware founders. He left the company in 2004, the same year it was acquired by EMC

You better stop what you're doing right there, Mark Zuckerberg: Somebody else has patented the "social network"