Select two articles from the RSS feed, one related to a virtualization or cloud computing topic covered in this chapter and one that explains a new virtualization technology or service related to a chapter topic. Summarize each article and include a concluding paragraph that explains how you as an IT professional would use this information. Scan the articles that appeared over the last two weeks. Use those articles to create your own one-page summary of a virtualization or cloud computing technology or event related to a topic covered in this chapter. Select one article that is of particular interest to you. Perform additional Internet research on that topic and then write a summary of that article. Include why you were interested in the article, what you learned from it, and how you could use it in your career as an IT professional.

Article 1 hyper v powering: December 2019

Hyper-V is Microsofts hardware virtualization technology that initially released with Windows Server 2008 to support server virtualization and has since become a core component of many Microsoft products and features. These features range from enhancing security to empowering developers to enabling the most compatible gaming console. Recent additions to this list include Windows Sandbox, Windows Defender Application Guard, System Guard and Advanced Threat Detection, Hyper-V Isolated-Containers, Windows Hypervisor Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Additionally, applications using Hyper-V, such as Kubernetes for Windows and Docker Desktop, are also being introduced and improved.

As the scope of Windows virtualization has expanded to become an integral part of the operating system, many new OS capabilities have taken a dependency on Hyper-V. Consequently, this created compatibility issues with many popular third-party products that provide their own virtualization solutions, forcing users to choose between applications or losing OS functionality. Therefore, Microsoft has partnered extensively with key software vendors such as VMware, VirtualBox, and BlueStacks to provide updated solutions that directly leverage Microsoft virtualization technologies, eliminating the need for customers to make this trade-off.