Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : Virtualisation

Application Virtualization 4.5 Documentation

mbullock — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:24:22 GMT

There has been a host of documentation and announcements around Application Virtualisation recently. I would suggest that you read the App-V team blog here . Of note though are several whitepapers that have been produced to help you evaluate, and deploy...(read more)

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 RTW – Download Now

mbullock — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:25:41 GMT

As Keith writes - Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 is a stand-alone product that provides a simplified, reliable, cost-effective and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. It allows organizations...(read more)

vmware costs way too much .com

mbullock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:46:19 GMT

This is amusing. Announced on the Virtualization teams blog and in the spirit of 'friendly competition' the Virtualisation product group have created this web site - www.VMwareCostsWayTooMuch.com . Check this out - and ask yourself whether you...(read more)

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Coming...

mbullock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:32:01 GMT

I tend to discuss the MAP tool fairly frequently in meetings with customers as it's a great - FREE - tool for helping you with planning for migrations and deployments. In a posting from last Friday the MAP team announced an upcoming open beta of the next...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 Branch Office deployment

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:29:54 GMT

Just noticed this video of an interview with UK partner Risual on there deployment of Windows Server 2008 to Branch office. They are discussing RODC and Bitlocker amongst other things. Worth a watch......(read more)

Virtualization Launch Day - Summary

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:19:20 GMT

[Update - this post seemed to get lost so I'm posting again - apologies if you get it twice!] I thought that I would try to summarise what we launched this week, pull together the case studies, 3rd party analysis, etc. The launch has been well blogged...(read more)

Virtualization Launch and Demo's R Here!

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:05:31 GMT

This is as much about testing embedding Silverlight Videos as it is actually presenting this video here!! The actual link is here as previously posted....(read more)

Want to see "Live Migration" in Hyper-V Demo?

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:01:28 GMT

Hi, Well the Virtualization and Windows Hyper-V launch events have been well covered all over the place. BUT, have you noticed that in the press release it offers "Microsoft executives will further outline virtualization solutions for customers and...(read more)

Important Desktop Virtualisation Announcements

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:21:21 GMT

Hi Folks, I can do no better than point you at This blog post from the MDOP product team. But if you need further encouragement, besides covering the new Windows Virtualization 4.5 (latest Softgrid release) in some detail they also announce new really...(read more)

MSDN.com and Technet.com running 100% on Hyper-V!!

mbullock — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:49:52 GMT

I've been hinting to a few of you recently that a major web site is running totally live on Hyper-V, and has been for some weeks. Well the announcement came out last week so here it is - MSDN.com which receives about 3 million hits per DAY, and...(read more)

Hyper-V Quick Migration & VMWare Live Migration

mbullock — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:06:51 GMT

I've been talking at a number of Windows 2008 customer launch meetings over the last few weeks and I always cover Microsoft's Virtualisation strategy. Now as you may know if you've been to our Virtualisation web site , Microsoft's virtualisation strategy...(read more)