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July 1, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer (softlayer.com) has announced that its suite of software solutions will be expanded to include virtualization with last week's release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Texas-based Softlayer is the second web host to announce Hyper-V service since Layered Technologies (layeredtechnologies.com) collaborated with Microsoft last week.
"Deploying Hyper-V is the first step in an extensive virtualization strategy that we are rolling out over the coming months," Chief Strategy Officer George Karidis stated in a press release. "The opportunities and advantages of virtualization are radically impacting the way we envision SoftLayer's future and our fundamental approach to server and data center architecture."
Hypervisor-based vitualization platform, Hyper-V allows a physical server to be separated into multiple virtual machines that can run independent operating systems including Windows and Linux. Following Tuesday's announcement, Hyper-V will be available through the SoftLayer customer portal and provisioned automatically along with a server's operating system.
SoftLayer implemented Hyper-V to pool server resources, decrease energy consumption and increase application and OS compatibility. The decentralized network infrastructure also reduces the impact of maintenance because machines to be removed without interrupting applications.
Since its beta release in December, updates in March and earlier-than-scheduled release, Hyper-V has been Microsoft's effort to compete with VMware (vmware.com) server virtualization products. The quick adoption of this less-than-week-old official release is already gaining Microsoft ground in the server virtualization battlefield.
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Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 07, 2008
Um. Why does this article say they are offering it when all they are saying is that sometime in the next few months they are going to start working on virtualization?