Thinking back to a previously mentioned article by Oliver Rist he stated:

“If you’re running a pile of servers, connected together to form a virtual hosting landscape, then that hardware must be updated, modified, and maintained over time. To keep virtual machines from going down during that time, Virtual Server now does machine migration from one host to the next at less than 10 seconds per 128MB (assuming a 1GbE iSCSI interconnect medium).”

Does this mean that MS is officially developing a VMotion competitor?

A quick search on the Microsoft website turned up nothing. Even the webpage dedicated to the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager doesn’t mention it. Honestly, that page doesn’t say much of anything.

However Microsoft has taken note of how large the virtualization market has become, and is still becoming. Last May they released their virtualization roadmap, which included the stated intent to acquire Softricity which they completed July 17th.

VMware’s position has been that they are so far ahead technology wise, that it will take Microsoft years to catch up. But do they really? Are they really that far ahead that MS can’t catch up?