Apartments.com goes Hyper-V

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by Matt Stratton on May 2, 2012

If you follow me on Twitter, or are my friend on Facebook, you may have seen me posting links to various online articles about something called “Hyper-V“. Basically, earlier this year, my team here at Apartments.com migrated our virtualization platform from VMWare to Microsoft’s Hyper-V offering.

Microsoft wrote up a case study on this experience, and due to that, I’ve been interviewed by several trade publications and quoted in a few articles. I’ve collected them here for your enjoyment. It’s some tech nerdery, but even if you don’t totally understand the technology, I think that it’s an interesting story about the “behind the scenes” tech “plumbing” that I do for a living.

Microsoft System Center 2012 overhauls licensing, focuses on apps [Network World]

Users find Microsoft System Center 2012 simplifies virtual systems management duties [Network World]

Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster with Hyper-V-based Cloud Solution [Microsoft]

VMware to Hyper-V converts share lessons learned [TechTarget]

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