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For those of you that were unable to attend yesterday’s audio teleconference with Microsoft's Bob Kelly, corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing, the 22 minute session has been reposted for your convenience below.
Bob speaks about the state of IT within the context of results from a new Harris Interactive study of 1,200 IT professionals from the U.S., United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. The study was commissioned by Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business. Questions from listeners follow the conference.
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While many information technology (IT) professionals are investing in specific areas of IT infrastructure, 55 percent say the economy has changed the role of IT and 51 percent say that budget constraints are the biggest barrier to their innovation, according to a new study released today, commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by Harris Interactive. The study results indicate that IT professionals in the U.S. are devoting less budget to innovation than their counterparts in the U.K., Japan and Germany.
For more information about the study, visit http://www.microsoft.com/infrastructure/resources/itprosurvey.mspx
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Don’t forget to register for a teleconference with corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing, Bob Kelly, June 23rd from 10:30am – 11:00am (PDT).
If you are interested in attending, please REGISTER NOW. Once you open the invite box, you can save and close to your calendar.
U.S. and Canada: (800) 369-1801
International: 1 (517) 308-9240
Pass code: Microsoft
Additional details about tomorrow’s teleconference available here.
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On Tuesday, June 23rd from 10:30am – 11:00am (PDT), join a teleconference with Bob Kelly, corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing. Bob will talk about the state of IT within the context of results from a new Harris Interactive study of 1,200 IT professionals from the U.S., United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. The study was commissioned by Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business. There will be time for your questions following the brief presentation.
Submit questions over the phone or you can submit them at any time leading up to or during the teleconference by tweeting with the Twitter hashtag, #qs4ms.
If you are interested in attending, please REGISTER NOW. Once you open the invite box, you can save and close to your calendar.
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During today’s keynote at JavaOne, Microsoft’s Steven Martin and Dan’l Lewin will be joined on stage by Sun Microsystems’ Aisling MacRunnels to talk about the latest work the companies are doing to deliver interoperable application platforms that span on-premise and cloud computing, and enable customers to leverage their existing investments in Microsoft and Sun technologies.
As part of this, the two companies will announce Sun’s participation in the Apache “Stonehenge” project, which was formed by Microsoft, WS02, Red Hat and Progress Software last fall to give customers better examples and more guidance on how to ensure the interoperability of applications across multiple vendor platforms. Sun will also announce its commitment to contribute the Metro-based StockTrader application code to the Stonehenge project. Sun’s participation will help Stonehenge deliver even more value to the community by providing best practice guidelines and reference implementations across an even broader range of scenarios and platforms, including Java, .NET, PHP, etc.
For more details about this announcement, its value for the community and the ongoing collaboration between Microsoft and Sun, please see Steven Martin’s blog posting or view the JavaOne keynote live or on demand at www.java.sun.com.
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Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta
Today, Microsoft is announcing the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – brand new tools that help Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes three modules that integrate with IIS Manager: Site Analysis, which suggests changes that can help improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines; Robots Exclusion, which makes it easier to control and restrict the content that search engines index and display; and Sitemaps and Site Indexes, which can help inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing. The IIS SEO Toolkit Beta can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta for use with IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5.
For more information, please visit the Windows Server Division Weblog .
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The Silverlight team recently launched a blog: http://team.silverlight.net! With the release of Silverlight 3 beta and the Expression Web and Blend 3 previews in March at MIX ’09, this year is shaping up to be a busy one. The blog serves as a one-stop shop to help you stay up to date on Silverlight and Expression Studio-related news, big and small. It’s updated regularly by the Silverlight and Expression Studio teams who welcome comments, questions and feedback to keep up a dialogue with the community.
Stop by the Silverlight Blog regularly and subscribe via RSS feed to instantly receive updates!
For more information on Silverlight please visit the Silverlight Virtual Pressroom, and for more information on Expression Studio please visit the Expression Community Website.
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Next week at Interop Las Vegas 2009 conference, attendees will be able to hear from two Microsoft virtualization customers and one executive. As part of the virtualization track, on May 19 two Microsoft customers will speak on a panel titled, “Virtualization – Life in the Trenches.” Executives from Kroll Factual Data and Santa Barbara Web Hosting will talk about their deployments of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, System Center and related technology. On May 20, Anders Vinberg, technical fellow, Management and Services Division, will speak on a panel titled, “Conflict Avoidance with Application Virtualization.” Also on May 20, but as part of the virtualization management track, Vinberg will participate on a panel titled, “Virtualization Management Futures.” Media representatives attending Interop can contact Waggener Edstrom’s Rapid Respond Team if interested to coordinate an interview with these speakers.
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Microsoft announced the Web Platform Installer downloaded over 1.5 Million products since January 2009.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 and 2.0, and the Windows Web Application Gallery, which has received more than 100,000 application downloads, are all part of the broader Microsoft Web Platform. This includes core, free Web products that help developers, designers, and end-users achieve success in developing for the Web. The Web Platform Installer is a download manager offering packaged Open Source applications to maximize productivity, making it easier for Web developers to install, and offers essential Web products and tools for building next-generation Web applications. The Windows Web Application Gallery enables you to install the most popular community Web applications with just a few clicks, such as: WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, Gallery and SilverStripe, which integrate with the Microsoft Web Platform.
Download Web Platform Installer and watch the latest video, "Cannon P.I., Make Web Not War".
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Today Microsoft released beta 2 of “Geneva,” Microsoft’s open platform that dramatically simplifies user access and secure collaboration across organizational boundaries. “Geneva” is part of Microsoft’s Business Ready Security strategy, particularly in the areas of “protecting everywhere and accessing anywhere” and “integrating and extending security across the enterprise” through support of heterogeneous environments and interoperability with third party solutions.
In addition, Microsoft also announced interoperability between “Geneva” and identity & access solutions from leading partners, via the SAML 2.0 and WS-Federation standards. Interoperable partner solutions include CA Federation Manager and CA SiteMinder, Novell Access Manager, SAP NetWeaver and Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise and Fedlet software.
“Geneva” is slated for release in the second half of 2009. For more information on today’s news, please check out the Forefront blog.
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Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2009 kicked off today with announcements of new technologies that enable IT professionals and developers to help their organizations save money and improve efficiencies during difficult economic times. As part of today’s news, Microsoft Corp. announced that the company is anticipating that the next version of its client operating system, Windows 7, will be available to customers in time for the holiday shopping season. In addition, Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) is available today with the final product releasing to market in the same timeframe as Windows 7.
The company also announced that SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly SQL Server ‘Kilimanjaro’) will release the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) in the second half of 2009 and on track to ship SQL Server 2008 R2 in the first half of calendar year 2010, which will include new feature Master Data Services (MDS).
Please visit the Global Tech•Ed Virtual Press Room to view the full press release, as well as the keynote live at 10am PDT/1pm EDT and for a post keynote Q&A session that will be starting at 12:30pm PDT/3:30 EDT as well.
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Microsoft and NetApp today announced that A & A Contract Customs Brokers Ltd., a fast-growing customs and freight broker, has achieved dramatic IT efficiency gains by using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center with NetApp storage solutions.
As A & A’s business continues to grow, so does its information technology environment and the need for more storage and servers. The acquisition of more servers and storage has led to increased IT costs and server and storage sprawl in the company’s data center. As a result, A & A needed to transform its IT infrastructure to meet its planned growth and business objectives. To solve the problem, the company consolidated its server and storage infrastructure based on an end-to-end virtualization solution with Microsoft Corp. and NetApp.
For more information, please visit PressPass or the Global TechEd Newsroom
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Microsoft announced today the release to manufacturing of Windows Storage Server 2008 to OEM partners.
Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS08) is built upon an optimized and enhanced release of the industry-leading file services of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft customers are able to get enterprise storage capabilities without sacrificing the flexibility and reliability that Windows Server provides the rest of their environment.
For more information, visit the Windows Server team blog or WSS team blog.
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Couldn't make it to the Microsoft Management Summit 2009 in Las Vegas? Press releases and full keynotes are available for viewing here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/infrastructure/Default.aspx
To view the on-demand webcast, “Is There a Cloud in Your Future?” - part 2 in a series on "How to Invest in the IT Infrastructure You Have While Preparing for Tomorrow," - featuring Zane Adam, Microsoft Senior Director of System Center and Virtualization, and Barry Briggs, Microsoft CTO for IT, please click here: https://www107.livemeeting.com/cc/msevents/view?id=CAL042809LG (no recording key required)
Day 1 keynote highlight clips:
Bob Kelly discusses the cloud
Bob Kelly outlines Microsoft’s vision of clouds as reliable, highly available systems that are built for redundancy.
Application Virtualization demo
Bill Morein demonstrates decoupling applications from the underlying operating system using application virtualization technology.
Technology Preview: future release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft's Michael Michael previews a future release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager demonstrating the potential of the integration of the private cloud with the public cloud.
Day 2 keynote highlight clips:
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Demo
Jeff Wettlaufer demonstrates how to make Windows 7 deployments and life-cycle management cost-effective and efficient with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2.
System Center Online Desktop Manager Preview
Craig Marl previews System Center Online Desktop Manager, an integrated security and management tool that provides desktop management capabilities in the form of an online service.
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