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Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:02 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template . This was announced over on the SDL Blog . Roger has some comments on it as well. The SDL Process Template is a free downloadable template for Visual Studio Team System that integrates 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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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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Microsoft Research: Peering into the future of Cloud Computing

Posted Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:15 AM by davidzi
Microsoft has created a new group within Microsoft Research called Cloud Computing Futures headed by Dan Reed , who has a long history in academia and is a former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications . An interview with him Read More...
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Azure Services Training Kit - February Update

Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 5:32 PM by davidzi
Following up on yesterday's post, today an updated Azure Services Training Kit was released: The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta - Live Migration Architecture and Step by Step Guide

Posted Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:57 PM by davidzi
Two new documents were released recently that describe the new Hyper-V features in Windows Server 2008 R2 currently in Beta and how to implement them in a test environment. The first document details the much discussed Live Migration feature and the architecture 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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Very Interesting Virtualization Video

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 5:14 PM by davidzi
Eric Traut, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and one of the key architects behind our kernel and virtualization teams gave a great presentation at the University of Illinois on our virtualization architecture. Eric gave a very detailed description Read More...
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Virtual Server Cookbooks

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:22 AM by davidzi
The links below are to a series of cookbooks for Virtual Server by Microsoft and Partners that are detailed how-to guides for a series of topics such as management, high availability, disaster recovery, etc. Name Description Microsoft® Virtual Server Read More...
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Great List of SQL 2008 Resources

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:11 PM by davidzi
If you want to learn more about SQL 2008, here is a great list of resources. 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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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 SoftGrid Page on Microsoft.com

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:32 PM by davidzi
There is some new SoftGrid content on Microsoft.com to check out. Softgrid is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and is highly complimentary to SMS and Terminal Services. For those not familliar with SoftGrid, here is the marketing definition: 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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