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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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TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up

Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:46 PM by davidzi
Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped the first session timeslot on Thurs to prepare for the double session I was presenting with Citrix. The double session format basically allocates two sessions Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up

Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:22 AM by davidzi
Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s coming across some of the Bing features, and some stuff MSR is working on. There was also a good discussion of how concepts move from MSR, to Labs, then into Read More...
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New Import and Export Features in Hyper-V R2

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:54 AM by davidzi
Good news from the virtualization team. Over on their blog is a new post about the import/export functionality in Hyper-V. There are major enhancements that address several scenarios that were either not easy or not possible with Hyper-V RTM. Scenarios 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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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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What Microsoft didn't say at its virtualization event

Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:17 PM by davidzi
A short but insightful post over on CNET: What Microsoft didn't say at its virtualization event http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10036848-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 People are starting to get it... 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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What is SoftGrid Application Virtualization?

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:37 AM by davidzi
It is very cool application virtualization technology. Check out this post for details: http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2007/08/02/inside-the-grid-part-1.aspx This is the first in what will be a series of posts from the team so be sure to subscribe 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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