Posts Tagged ‘windows server’
Windows on EC2
Amazon has announced support for Windows Server and MS SQL Server running in EC2 coming this fall. The announcement came the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the coming of Windows ‘Cloud’. This functionality was available before using a bit of a hack, but will be fully supported coming before the end of the year. There’s no solid word from Amazon on what the costs will be nor how the licensing will work, though they have said “of course the actual price will be higher than Linux-based instances, due to the cost of Windows licenses”. The more traditional licensing style from Microsoft would be a bit difficult given the elastic nature of EC2, but they apparently have worked out something with Microsoft even with the recent news of Windows ‘Cloud’ on its way (somehow related?). You can read the original announcement here.
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Oct 6th, 2008
Microsoft Offers Hyper-V for Free
In true Microsoft style, long after other competing products have been offering free versions of their software, Microsoft announced yesterday that the new version of its Hyper-V product will be free. Competitors VMware and Xen have been offering free virtualization software for some time now with pay-for management features. Microsoft appears to be jumping on the bandwagon. According to cnet, the new version will be released in less than 30 days. Microsoft also is reporting that the new Live Migration feature (once again, available in VMware and Xen) will be available in the new version. Live Migration was promised in the first version, but wasn’t developed in time to be released with the first version. It will allow a virtual machine to be migrated to another physical host while the virtual machine is running. The new version will be part of Server 2008 R2.
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Sep 9th, 2008
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