Hello from TechEd EMEA in Berlin
Hello everyone. This week, I’m in Berlin for TechEd EMEA 2009. TechEd EMEA is a great event, where I get a chance to not only present on Microsoft Virtualization but also meet with real IT professionals, that use our products every day.
I’ve already presented a couple times on Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and I still have one more presentation to go. The show is sold out, with more 7,000 attendees, and my sessions were all completely full. I wish we had more room for the other attendees. By far, the most amazing personal moment for me was when I did my standard survey of the audience. I asked the crowd, before we started, how many people run VMware and how many people run Microsoft Virtualization. The number of hands raised were nearly identical. This is completely different from just two years ago, at my first TechEd EMEA, where literally every person in the audience of 400+ used VMware and I could count the number of Hyper-V users on my finger. It made me very proud of the work that has been done over the last three years and I hope that my work was a part of that.
As for the rest of the show, System Center is clearly the star of the New Efficiency. During the keynote presentation, which you can view here, the demonstration done by Jeff Wettlaufer was just amazing. It showed all the different capabilities, functions, and integrations that the System Center family of products can enable. Jeff showed integrated Virtualization management, Power Management and Savings, Montioring of physical and virtual systems, and even linking the Live Migration of a Virtual Machine, linked to the Power budget of the servers CPU.
Beyond the keynote itself, the System Center sessions have been extremely well attended. The attendees have been learning not only about the existing System Center products, but also upcoming products like Configuration Manager 2007 R3, Configuration Manager Vnext, Data Protection Manager 2010, and System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010. I’m very excited about SCE 2010, as it extends upon the great systems management and monitoring in SCE 2007 and adds Virtualization management features from VMM.
Look out for more information on all these products in the upcoming months. Don’t forget to follow my on twitter (@edwinyuen), as I continue to tweet about TechEd, Virtualization, System Center, and even some afternoon funnies.
