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Microsoft Jumps Into Virtualization Fray

Microsoft has not just released the cat among the pigeons by releasing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it is the cat among the pigeons.

Both its allies and its competitors are fluttering about and squawking at the news.

Microsoft's supporters are, understandably, happy to be able to stretch their wings, while its competitors are keeping a stiff upper lip and pointing out that the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) hypervisor (define) is a first-generation product and, therefore, will lack a few capabilities.

Hyper-V's roots lie in technology from Connectix, which developed virtualization software for Windows and Apple Macs, and was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.

"This has been in the works for a very long time, and it's an expected announcement," VMware group manager for product marketing John Gilmartin told InternetNews.com. (Microsoft did not return a request for comment at press time).

Indeed, Microsoft's been a player in the virtualization space since February 2004, when it released its first beta of Virtual Server 2004 in hopes that this would get customers to migrate to Windows Server 2003.

VMware is squarely in Microsoft's sights, and did the expected, with Gilmartin pointing out that Hyper-V is a "first-generation product" and therefore "doesn't have the features and capabilities our customers are asking for."

"We have tens of thousands of customers running our products in their production environments because we offer the reliability and capability they need," Gilmartin added.

Tim Walsh, director of corporate marketing at Virtual Iron, which offers a platform based on the open source Xen hypervisor, said that VMware is "the most advanced solution, it works at the high end of the market, and can support features from server consolidation to development and test optimization, which are at the low end of the food chain, to disaster recovery, high availability and high capacity."

Virtual Iron's product has "features comparable with VMware but costs less and is lots easier to use," according to Walsh. The company targets the SMB market.

While Microsoft's Hyper-V supports consolidation and testing, it can't support high availability and failover, which are critical for market penetration because "more than half of the users of server virtualization are adopting it to support things like disaster recovery and business continuity," Walsh said.

Competition in the Enterprise

That deficiency will hamper adoption of Hyper-V in the enterprise, he added.

Another competitor doubting Microsoft's ability to compete in the enterprise virtualization space is Sun, which uses the Xen open source hypervisor.

"We're happy to see Microsoft come out with this offering, but Hyper-V is primarily about Windows, and we see heterogeneity, or the ability in the data center to address multiple systems being key," Vijay Sarathy, senior director of xVM, Sun's virtualization line, told InternetNews.com.

Sun's offering can "address Windows and a variety of Linux variants as well as Solaris (define) and Open Solaris (define)," Sarathy said. (In addition to Windows, Microsoft's Hyper-V also supports two versions of SUSE Linux).

Hyper-V also does not offer live migration, which Sun will unveil in August; instead, it has QuickMigration, which "isn't the same because it halts the system, customers' processes and applications will shut down for some time and they'll be inconvenienced," Sarathy added.

However, Paul Ghostine, vice president of the Provision Networks Division at Quest, whose company unveiled the first hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for Hyper-V in April, is optimistic about the Microsoft hypervisor's chances.

"I believe adoption of Hyper-V will be pretty broad and pretty fast, especially in the SMB space to begin with," he told InternetNews.com.

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Meet the inventor of "Donkey Kong." And "Mario." His hot new game: "Wii Fit."

Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't just work for Nintendo, one of the world's leading game makers. He is Nintendo.
The most successful game designer in the world, Miyamoto is responsible for blockbuster series like "Zelda," "Donkey Kong" and "Mario." More recently, he helped create the Wii, the sought-after game console in which players use their bodies to mimic onscreen action. His latest creation, "Wii Fit" ($89.99), out now, is a physical fitness game with nearly 40 activities, such as yoga poses, ski jumping and snowboarding. The game, which includes a scale/balance-board device, is part of a growing trend dubbed "exergaming."
While excessive weight remains a problem in America, Miyamoto says he didn't create "Wii Fit" to fight obesity: "My thinking behind it was, if weighing yourself every day and seeing the changes helps you become more aware of your body, your balance and your BMI [body mass index], that is not only going to lead people to new discoveries about themselves, it's also going to help them make better decisions about their health."
Miyamoto, 55, admits he has grown more concerned about his own health since experiencing back pain a few years ago. After noticing he had put on a few pounds, he started swimming and frequenting the gym. He says he also uses "Wii Fit" regularly. As of April, his BMI was a healthy 23.
Miyamoto lives in Japan, about a mile and a half from the Nintendo headquarters. He used to ride his bicycle to work. "Nintendo asked me not to do it," he told us, through a translator. "They thought it was too dangerous."
For someone of his fame in the digital generation (he was the first to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame), Miyamoto's childhood was exceptionally low-tech. He grew up in the countryside near Kyoto, in the central part of the island of Honshu. "I was always surrounded by nature as a boy," he says. "It was very peaceful." When he wasn't exploring the nearby creeks and hidden caves that inspired "Zelda" and "Mario," Miyamoto liked to draw and stage puppet shows. "Monster movies were big in those days, so many of my puppets were monsters," he says, laughing. "I seemed to make a lot of dogs, too, for some reason."
In college, Miyamoto studied industrial design and mechanical engineering. After a series of odd jobs, including playing the guitar in a bluegrass band ("which is not," he says, "a terribly popular brand of music in Japan"), he was hired by Nintendo in 1977.
At the time, Nintendo was looking for new ventures and badly overestimated the appeal of a coin-operated arcade game machine called Radarscope. The company wound up with a warehouse full of them in Redmond, Wash. "For some reason, I was assigned the task of figuring out what to do with the machines," Miyamoto recalls. He came up with a simple game featuring a character scaling a set of girders while avoiding barrels tossed by an oversize ape. That game, of course, was "Donkey Kong," and by 1982 its hero, Jumpman (later rechristened "Mario" in honor of the warehouse's portly manager), would appear on everything from cereal boxes to neck ties.
A quarter century later, Miyamoto is sometimes referred to as the video-game-world equivalent of Walt Disney. His star is on the Walk of Game in San Francisco, and last year "Time" named him one of the 100 Most Influential People. Asked if he's ever received poor service at a restaurant and said, "Don't you know who I am?" Miyamoto shakes his head and laughs like a giddy schoolboy. "No, I've never done anything like that," he says, his eyes crinkling at the corners. "While I hope that my products stand out, I personally try to blend in as much as possible." 

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