Summary

I don't have official numbers, but I would risk it to say that today there are already more virtual servers running than physical servers, keeping our world online. While the battle continues to rage between which hypervisor platform is the best—typically the argument is split between either Hyper-V or VMware—you cannot ignore the fact that virtualization is the way of the future. Microsoft puts great amounts of time and resources into making sure that Hyper-V is always staying on top of the game, and introducing more and more features with every release so that you can keep your virtualized infrastructure up and running perfectly, all the time. Is the capability of cloud virtualization even more powerful than on-premise Hyper-V Server? I would say yes, because the infrastructure that is in place at a cloud service provider is going to be the all-powerful Oz compared to what a single company can provide in their own datacenter. Does this mean you can forget about Hyper-V altogether...