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So it looks like all change at the top of VMware. “VMware's Board of Directors ... has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO. VMware's Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as President
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How Microsoft IT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V So you want more evidence on Hyper-V, our friends at TechNet Edge have just posted this great interview. Worth a watch. In this interview we met up with Devin Murray (Group Manager) and David
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The wait is over Windows 2008 Hyper-V is RTM’d. Justin beat me!! again.. As the news sweeps across the industry I am watching with interest. So far I like this this article on ZDNet by Jason Perlow gives a good summary. I do like the
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The 15 minutes is worth the watch though with some great soundbites from Jeff Raikes, Bill’s dad, Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer. Overview On June 27, 2008, Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his work
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For those of you that I have had the pleasure to meet, one thing you would have noticed is that I love the company I work for Microsoft . I am glad that I share the same slightly ‘strange’ passion and obsession with my good friend Justin Zarb. This said
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Microsoft Surface Microsoft's Surface touch operated "coffee table" computer will make its debut in the entertainment world at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. So what is Microsoft Surface? Its a WPF application or a number of WPF applications
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So tonight in the UK the BBC Money Programme take a look at Microsoft and Bill’s career BBC 2 - Friday 20 June 7:00pm - 8:00pm Overview Full marks to The Money Programme for landing an exclusive interview with Gates. He even lets the cameras in on meetings,
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All, just wanted to call out this resource building on my pervious blog entry about MAP Windows 2008 Solution Accelerators Use proven guidance and automated tools in these Solution Accelerators to assess your hardware and deploy and securely operate Windows
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May be old news but worth calling this out again! One of the most valuable tool for virtualisation is free and comes from Microsoft. It's called Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP), it's a capacity planning product that supports hardware and application
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In case you have not heard, virtualisation is big! When I mean big I mean important to both Microsoft and the IT industry. To demonstrate this Bob Muglia keynoted at Tech-Ed 2008. Where our very own report Mr Zarb is currently. What
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The SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) team has released an update to Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta for Hyper-V RC1. Instructions to download and install the update can be found on Clive Watson’s blog at SCVMM 2008 beta (Update for
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Are you from the UK? Can you get to Reading? If so you may want to attend this event Register NOW! Abstract: This event will take you through our latest management and Virtualisation technologies. We’ll start the day with a thought provoking
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I stumbled on this great article from Mike Sterling awesome stuff. In addition to his blog which itself is a great read :) enjoy. The new architecture of synthetic devices with Hyper-V poses some unique challenges for system administrators. Specifically,
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So what is all this about Architecture? move importantly how do become an Architect? In understanding the role of an Architect a colleague of mine Mohammad Akif has put together some great resources around understanding the journey and the
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So today at TechEd, Soma Somasegar and Bill Gates will announce that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be publicly available later this week. So what is new: · UI Framework : Beta 2 includes improvements in animation support, error handling and reporting, automation
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