With the launch of vSphere, VMware have introduced a number of new features and capabilities, yet at the same time, in addition to their Standard and Enterprise versions, they’ve introduced a number of new product SKUs, including the Essentials range, for the SMB, Advanced, and also Enterprise Plus,...

Reducing costs, improving efficiencies and increasing performance is a challenge for any business…but Microsoft and Citrix can help. Citrix and Microsoft have decades of experience working together to provide customers a range of solutions which deliver choice, flexibility and cost savings. Our...

Interested in seeing Microsoft virtualisation technologies in action?  Need to understand the Microsoft virtualisation platform?  Virtualboy TV is an IT-Pro oriented Virtualisation TV Channel, with ‘Technical Overview Videos’ discussing, in detail, the solutions, along with in-depth...

SBSC PAL (Partner Area Lead), Vijay Singh Riyait , has highlighted on his blog that Microsoft have made available an EBook on Microsoft Virtualisation - and what's more it's free ! The book is written by Mitch Tulloch and covers the following areas: Microsoft’s Virtualization Solution Server Virtualization—Hyper...

Here's an update from the Partner Readiness team at Microsoft on Virtualisation training... Virtualisation Sales Virtualisation Sales Training with Mike Peers & Matt McSpirit Introduction - http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/uk/partners/virtualisation/Introduction.wmv Overview  - http://wm.microsoft...

New one- and two-day hands-on technical training courses are taking place in London and Birmingham between January and March 2009. Courses range from general overview of Microsoft Virtualisation Solutions through to more detailed in-depth technical training. To learn more about the courses and / or to...

The 5W/50 Webcast series is focused on SBSC partners in the SMB space and cover business readiness, sales, technical and product related topics. To view the topics and dates for the webcasts, go to the 5W/50 Portal at http://www.mssmallbiz.com/training .   New and upcoming presentations include...

Here's an update on what Windows Essential Server Solutions (WESS) and Windows Server 2008 training opportunities and resources there are for OEM & System Builder partners: Windows Server 2008 Product and Sales Overview Introduces the participant to features and benefits of Windows Server 2008 and...

Citrix Systems have recently joined us on the WESS launch SBSC User Group tour. Following some great interest from SBSC partners in Edinburgh last week, Sally Ross from Citrix has asked me to post her invitation out to all SBSC partner to invite you to some webinars they are holding in December. The...

We are pleased to announce that the following document is now available in the Windows Small Business Server Technical Library: Using Hyper-V with Windows Small Business Server 2008 . This document provides an overview of the use of virtualization in a SBS 2008 environment, and discusses scenarios in...

Virtualisation is set to revolutionise your customers' IT. By delivering dynamic resources that hold unlimited capacity and are available to users anywhere at anytime, you can dramatically improve clients' IT infrastructures. Crucially, this also offers a significant opportunity to improve your business...

Virtualisation has gained much attention across organisations looking to address these challenges, improving the efficiency of their IT operations and enhancing their responsiveness to changing conditions. Originally focused on consolidating resources in the data center, virtualisation now has applications...

I just posted about the Windows Essential Server team in Redmond running a special session for partners on SBS 08 and Virtualization . They have also run a session for partners covering the intended support details for running Windows Essential Business Server 2008 in a virtual environment.  You...

Earlier this week the Windows Essential Server Solutions team in Redmond released the official Small Business Server 2008 virtualization scenarios - one of the key pieces in the lead-up to the November 12th worldwide launch.The team ran a special session for partners covering the intended support details...