Here's a tidbit I learned about from Dave Kowalsky. Thanks Dave! http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164300985 Summary: At its annual conference in SanJose, the PCI Special Interest Group detailed updates and extensions...

The Branch Office Infrastructure Solution has been published on TechEd. It uses virtualization technologies and includes tools for automating the creation of virtual machines, among lots of other good stuff. Go take a look! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

From ComputerWorld, "Q&A: Microsoft's Bob Muglia discusses virtualization plans" - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,102332,00.html Also from ComputerWorld, "Sidebar: Under the Hood: The Soul of a Virtual Machine...

Jeff Woolsey has written this article to help you optimize the performance of your virtual machines - http://blogs.technet.com/megand/articles/406145.aspx . Thanks Jeff! PS: I'm back from my vacation (which was grand!).

Here are some guidelines for optimizing the performance of your virtual machines from Jeff Woolsey, Lead Program Manager for virtual machine technologies here at Microsoft. Thanks Jeff! ---------------------------------- Hardware virtualization...