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April 2009 - Posts

Windows 7 RC Available: What a day for my MSDN to expire!

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:33 PM by davidzi
By now you’ve probably heard that the Windows 7 RC is available for download for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Unfortunately for me, my MSDN subscription expired in the last couple days #%$! and won’t be renewed for another day or two. Fortunately, with Read More...
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New FriendFeed Site Went Live Today

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:18 PM by davidzi
The beta has been out for a couple weeks but the upgraded FriendFeed site went live today. Details are available on their official blog . I just started into the social networking thing in the last couple weeks. Scoble has been raving about FriendFeed Read More...
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One Million Server Datacenter?

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:16 AM by davidzi
IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article online about mega-datacenters and whether a million server datacenter is possible in the near future. It describes the efforts of the major players in this space. They describe some of the attributes of Microsoft’s Read More...
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MMS Keynote Streaming Live Now

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:11 PM by davidzi
MMS Day 1 Keynote: Bob Kelly, Microsoft corporate vice president, April 28, 2009, 8:30 am PT Read More...
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New Site: TalkingAboutWindows.com

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 1:29 PM by davidzi
Over on the Building Community One Brick at a Time blog, a new web site, TalkingAboutWindows.com was announced where senior Windows leadership and engineers (Jon Devaan, Mark Russinovich, many others) are interviewed. I just checked it out, looks like Read More...
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Is the CMDB just a dream?

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 9:00 AM by davidzi
Glenn O'Donnell over at Forrester had a great post titled “ Is a CMDB even possible? ” that I just came across. As you may know, CMDB stands for Configuration Management Database and is typically defined as a single repository holding all configuration Read More...
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New VDI content on Microsoft.com

Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 3:11 PM by davidzi
There is updated desktop virtualization content at www.microsoft.com/vdi There are a couple of whitepapers and guides to help understand the various approaches and components of a virtualized desktop. Over the last few months VDI is an area I have been Read More...
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Virtualization Books from Microsoft Insiders

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:52 AM by davidzi
Two new books on Hyper-V have been released or coming soon. These are written by some of the most active members of the virtualization team and extended community inside Microsoft. Some of the authors I know personally and some I know by reputation from Read More...
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Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: More features, still free!

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 8:05 PM by davidzi
Announced today over on the Virtualization Team Blog, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, the “stand-alone” version of Hyper-V will include Live Migration and host clustering capabilities. It will continue to be a free download. With support for the advanced Read More...
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