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Private Clouds: Believe it or not?

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:01 PM by davidzi
Recently there has been some healthy debate around the validity of “private clouds” and whether such a construct is new or just a different name for virtualization and automated provisioning, i.e. a marketecture. In this corner for the anti-Private Cloud Read More...
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Updated: Introducing the Azure Services Platform

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:24 PM by davidzi
The main introductory whitepaper to the Azure platform written by David Chappell has been updated. The main updates are around SQL Data Services and the move toward a more relational model and the introduction of something code-named the “Huron” data Read More...
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Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud computing front. First, over on the Virtualization Team Blog , Jeff provided the announcement and details around some new capabilities coming in Hyper-V with Read More...
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Finding the Hidden Costs of VDI

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 8:01 AM by davidzi
Brian Madden has an excellent post up today called The hidden costs of VDI . I’ve been working nearly full time the last two months helping to put together a Microsoft Services offering around desktop virtualization in general and VDI in particular so 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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Big Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Announcements

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:02 AM by davidzi
At TechEd in Barcelona today, we made several major announcements . It's important to look at the details but to really see the scope and impact you need to step back a bit and look at the big picture these announcements describe. In my view there are Read More...
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Want to learn about Microsoft's virtualization solutions?

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:47 PM by davidzi
Below is a link to a great virtualization webcast. I met Edwin and Jeff at TechReady this year, both good guys. Jeff is a PM on Windows Server Virtualization and Edwin is an EM with the Virtual Machine Manager team. Abstract: Virtualization is a high-priority Read More...
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Major Virtualization Announcements!

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM by davidzi
Wow, some big news over on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog ! SCVMM is released to manufacturing. The pricing model is very reasonable and is priced per physical host with management of an unlimited number of VMs. There is a midmarket solution available Read More...
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Sun's Red Shift Theory

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 7:59 AM by davidzi
This is a very interesting article on a theory by Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos that over the intermediate term, computing and data centers are going to consolidate so much that eventually a very large percentage of all computing will be done in massive Read More...
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TechReady Day 3 and 4: Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 10:21 PM by davidzi
My schedule on day 3 and 4 was very heavy on sessions dealing with virtualization and various Windows Server 2008 topics. I mentioned it in my previous post but there is a tremendous amount of integration and collaboration between the virtualization teams Read More...
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TechReady Day 2: BillG and Virtualization

Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:09 AM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady brought a keynote by Bill Gates and another Q&A session afterwards. The keynote was pretty interesting, it was a fairly typical BillG presentation with some good demos. He highlighted six major areas Microsoft is focusing on over Read More...
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New Blog and a Post About Routing Between Virtual Networks

Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 4:58 PM by davidzi
Robert Larson, a fellow Microsoft Consulting Services colleague and co-author of the upcoming Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit has started a new blog . One of his posts deals with the various options available to provide network connectivity and routing Read More...
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Microsoft.com is running on IIS7 at 99.83% Availability

Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:51 PM by davidzi
Interesting post and stats over on www.iss.net www.iis.net . Microsoft.com has now migrated all but one server over to IIS7. 99% of apps worked unchanged. Most folks don't realize this but Microsoft.com has the 4th widest audience in the US and the 5th Read More...
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SCOM, OCS, PowerShell - Can you keep up?

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:55 AM by davidzi
As someone who attempts (and whose job!) it is to maintain at least a passing knowledge of all of the Microsoft infrastructure servers and expertise in at least a few of them, weeks like this are both exciting and a great challenge. In case you missed Read More...
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What are Composite Applications? See Microsoft Architect Journal 10

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 7:42 AM by davidzi
Volume 10 of the Microsoft Architect Journal has been released to the web . This issue deals with the concept of Composite Applications which are basically the payoff that a service oriented architecture provides. Composition deals with creating an end Read More...
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