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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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Cloud Computing: Taxes Analogous to Atmospheric Pressure

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:11 AM by davidzi
In a blog posting earlier this week , the Azure team announced that they would be moving all Azure applications out of our “USA – Northwest” datacenter. I was fascinated by this given that the stated reason for this move is a change in local tax law which Read More...
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White Paper: Comparing the Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange Environments

Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:07 AM by davidzi
The Exchange team has published a whitepaper on TechNet comparing the power utilization of a typical 8 server physical Exchange environment compared to a a virtualized environment using the same number of logical processors but on only two Hyper-V host Read More...
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Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 9:00 AM by davidzi
When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and tools like SVAM and MAP , underutilized database servers are a frequent consolidation candidate. Similarly, if you have already widely implemented virtualization, 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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Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:15 PM by davidzi
The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to take advantage of them. The E7 post also links to an in depth AnandTech article that goes into more detail on SSD’s and has some benchmark comparisons between 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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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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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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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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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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