Hello again! I know it's been a while since I've written a blog, but since my last post I have spent time taking care of a new baby and blogging (and everything else ☺) takes a back seat to that.
What I did want to talk about today is a great technical conversation which is happening on the Network World site about the future of computing, clouds, and virtualization. Writing for the Microsoft side is David Greschler, who is a director of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft and founder of Softricity. David and I worked together at Softricity before they were acquired by Microsoft and virtualization became a trendy technology.
In his first post, David explains his thoughts on why customers can rely on Microsoft's current set of products as well as its vision for the future of virtualization and its importance as a stepping-stone to cloud computing. With his years of experience in Virtualization, both at Microsoft and before then, David really understands that Virtualization is not about the technology but rather the capabilities that it can provide IT and companies as a whole.
Microsoft is a platform company that provides customers with the tools, capabilities, and features they need to manage their applications, both in their datacenters and in cloud computing. This means providing not only the virtualization infrastructure, but the management, identity, and application development framework that companies need to fully prepare and easily adopt cloud computing. Through years of working with customers to develop enterprise solutions to meet their needs, Microsoft is able to deliver these end-to-end capabilities.
I strongly encourage you to review David's posting and to start thinking beyond just the virtualization of infrastructure and more about the journey to cloud computing. I believe that Microsoft is the best company to work with customers on that journey. In the end, Cloud is not a technology or product but a destination for the future of IT and Microsoft is leading the way to that.