Computing world was completely taken for a surprise by Microsoft when they announced the release of their virtualization software called Hyper-V.

This is clearly ramping up its competition against the leader of virtualization VMWare. Hyper-V will be a part of Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft which will allow users to run independent, multiple images in a physical machine of this operating system. Virtualization is being adopted widely in the market of enterprise computing which will help reducing the hardware amount that is required for the applications. This feature of Hyper-V makes it easier to deploy, manage and cut costs in the data centers. Microsoft has made it downloadable now from their web site and the current beta version of the same software works with the enterprise version of the Windows Server 2008. Microsoft also announced of adding provisioning and management of virtual machines through the system center tool of Virtual Machine Manager.