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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Virtualization Services, Certifications and Training Offerings Now Available

grantkd — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Today Microsoft announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new bare metal hypervisor-based server virtualization product. Available as a no-cost Web download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-VServer later today, Hyper-V Server 2008 provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualization solution for customers to consolidate Windows or Linux workloads onto a single physical server or to run client operating systems and applications in server-based virtual machines in the data center.

In addition, customers such as Del Monte Foods and Saxo Bank are sharing their early success with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Microsoft also announced a new offering of specialized assessment and implementation services available from the Microsoft Services organization that helps customers use server virtualization, and separate new training and certifications from Microsoft Learning for Microsoft Certified IT Professionals.

All of today’s announcements are on the heels of the “Get Virtual Now” launch event last month. For more information, please visit the press release, Windows Virtualization Blog, Microsoft Learning Community Blog and Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Team Blog.

Get Virtual Now- Continued

grantkd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Microsoft kicked off the “‘Get Virtual Now” event this morning in Bellevue, Washington. The event series is designed to educate more than 250,000 IT professionals on Microsoft virtualization products, deployment tools and partner solutions, helping customers to virtualize from the datacenter to the desktop, and manage with the same tools they’re already using for their physical infrastructure. With more than 125 events planned, the event series started Aug. 3 in South Africa, and by early 2009 will have covered more than 50 other countries.

Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Kevin Turner will begin their afternoon keynote at 12:30 PDT. To view the live webcast, visit the Microsoft Virtual Press Room.

For more information about today’s virtualization announcements check out the following blogs:

· Windows Virtualization Team Blog

· Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Team Blog

· Microsoft Application Virtualization Blog

· The Official MDOP Blog

· Taylor Brown's Blog

Get Virtual Now

grantkd — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Today at 9 AM PDT, Bob Kelly will take the stage at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, officially kicking off Microsoft’s five-month long worldwide event series to “‘Get Virtual Now.”

Product milestones will be announced through two live webcast keynotes, available for viewing at the Microsoft Virtual Press Room.

· Bob Kelly- 9:00-10:00 AM PDT

· Bob Muglia and Kevin Turner- 12:30-2:00 PM PDT

News at today’s event:

· Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web.

· System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will be released within 30 days.

· Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, released last week, will be included as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, which is due for general availability in the coming weeks.

· Microsoft demonstrated for the first time a live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2.

Partner News:

In separate news releases today, visit the Microsoft Virtual Press Room to learn about announcements from the following partners.

· AMD

· Compellent Technologies, Inc.

· HP

· NetApp

· Sun Microsystems

For more information, please visit the Windows Virtualization Team Blog.

New Microsoft Licensing and Support Eases Path to Virtualization

grantkd — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:23:00 GMT

Today Microsoft announced new licensing, expanded product support policies and a worldwide series of events to help business customers create more dynamic datacenters and enterprise IT systems with virtualization software. Beginning Sept. 1, 2008, customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications between servers within a server farm as often as necessary without paying additional licensing fees, and they can take advantage of expanded specialized technical support.

The company also announced that it will begin a worldwide series of “Get Virtual Now” events this month that will showcase Microsoft virtualization products and partner solutions, reaching more than 250,000 IT professionals. The series of more than 100 events started Aug. 3 in South Africa, continues Sept. 8 with a U.S. kickoff event and eventually will cover more than 50 other countries.

More information on today’s announcements can be found here:

· Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-19EasyPathPR.mspx

· Volume Licensing Briefs: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/volbrief.mspx

· Support Policy Details: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125767

· Virtualization team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/

· System Center team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/

· Exchange team blog: http://msexchangeteam.com/

· Sharepoint team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/