More on virtualizing SharePoint

porourke — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:37:00 GMT

Since there was interest in the previous post about the UK services team's series on virtualizing SharePoint, I wanted to recommend the following video from October 2008. The interview is with Michael Noel of Convergent Computing. Michael is also a SharePoint MVP. In this video (6 minutes long), Michael talks about using System Center Virtual Machine Manager to deploy SharePoint. He also talks about disaster recovery and quickly provisioning a SharePoint farm.

There's a high interest amongst our customers to adopt SharePoint, and to run it within a virtual machine. Mark at Enterprise Strategy Group [his blog] shared the following data with me [from a Dec 2008 research brief by ESG], that partially explains why there's interest.

In a recent survey of 1,191 IT and business managers, ESG found that one in three (33%) North American and Western European midmarket and enterprise companies are currently using Microsoft’s SharePoint suite of collaboration and content management tools. As adoption becomes more widespread, SharePoint is quickly becoming an organization-wide, critical business resource. As shown in Figure 1, 29% of current SharePoint users rate the implementation of SharePoint as one of their top three IT initiatives over the past 12-24 months and 82% place it in their top ten initiatives.

ESG’s research also reveals that SharePoint is viewed very favorably by current users, with 69% of current adopters saying they would recommend that organizations similar to their own implement SharePoint broadly.

Michael Noel on Virtualization Part II

BTW - for those of you who read this blog on the Web (20-25% of you), I hope you like the new skins.

Patrick

Virtualization Feed for Your RSS Reader

porourke — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:06:00 GMT

With a "tip of the cap" to creators of Planet V12n blog, we've just launched a blog and Twitter aggregator for virtualization. It's called VirtualizationFeed. Like Planet V12n, this site aggregates virtualization blogs from lots of sources. In this case, 18 independent bloggers and 14 Microsoft bloggers on either TechNet or MSDN. I'm sure you'll recognize many of the names/blogs ... and maybe you'll discover new ones. For example:

Tarry Singh (Netherlands)
Andrew Dudgell (Australia)
Kevin Fogarty (CIO.com)
Alessandro Perilli (Italy)
David Marshall (U.S.)
Mark Bowker (ESG - analyst firm)
Ben Armstrong (aka, Virtual PC Guy)
Rakesh Malhotra (VM management blog)
The App-V team blog
Tony Soper's blog

The blog aggregator will show a short (200-character) excerpt from the blog and point you to the blogger's site for the full post.

In addition to blogs, you'll see a tab for Tweets. VirtualizationFeed.com is also a Twitter aggregator (supplements the use of Twitter's useful search tool) that pulls all virtualization-related tweets.

I'm told that someone is working on a Vista gadget so that you can view the blog aggregator's RSS feed from your desktop. I'll post the download link once the gadget is available. Otherwise it's self explanatory. Check it out.

Patrick

Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Mark Bowker

More on virtualizing SharePoint

Virtualization Feed for Your RSS Reader