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Videos to watch: Mark Russinovich; Virt and cloud computing panel
Published 10 December 8 3:0 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Before I start hunkering down for what's supposed to be a snowy weekend in Redmond, and without college football on TV, I wanted to pass along a couple videos that are worth a watch. First, TechTarget interviewed Mark Russinovich, technical follow, about Windows 7, WS08 R2, virtualization and Vista. It's about 8 minutes long. You can watch Mark's interview here . Second, this week Mike...
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Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files
Published 19 November 8 12:28 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, I’m John Suit, CTO and principal founder of Fortisphere , which is a member of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program . In this tough economy, the cost savings of virtualization are driving faster adoption – and the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V is exposing more companies, large and small, to the benefits of this deceptively simple technology. In fact, from what we’ve seen, the scale of...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions
Published 21 October 8 12:52 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions I’m Zane Adam, sr. director of virtualization strategy here in Redmond at Microsoft. I’m writing today to announce the exciting news that we’ve released to manufacturing (RTM’d) System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and to talk a bit about its critical role...
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Guest post: virtualization requires the proper perspective
Published 9 October 8 10:9 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, I’m Doug de Werd, technical marketing manager for Windows Virtualization at Hewlett-Packard . In the past few weeks following the Microsoft virtualization launch event in Bellevue the virtualization buzz keeps growing louder and louder. We keep hearing more and more from customers that virtualization is a key component of their IT infrastructure strategy. IT organizations fall across a wide spectrum...
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VMworld is over, but the facts remain
Published 26 September 8 5:47 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
I’ve been to Las Vegas too many times to count and have always left with good stories, but I never thought that my best Vegas story would be work-related. That story of course is about last week’s marketing activity at VMworld . Definitely not your typical day at the office. While I have enjoyed the headlines (My Favorite: Microsoft attacks VMware with Poker Chips ), the speculation as to what transpired...
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Guest Post: Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Published 10 September 8 12:54 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hello, my name is Karl Schulmeisters, director of alliance technology and architecture for the Microsoft global alliance at Unisys. We are a global systems integrator that focuses on large scale-up solutions particularly in the public sector, financial services, federal government and pharmaceuticals industries. I watched Monday’s mid-day keynote at the Virtualization Launch in Bellevue , in which...
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Virtualization Feed for Your RSS Reader
Published 27 August 8 12:6 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
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...
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Guest Post: Why Microsoft and Hyper-V for HostBasket
Published 28 July 8 3:53 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, my name is Bert Van Pottelberghe, business unit manager at Hostbasket , which is the leading hosting company and SaaS-provider in Belgium with over 30,000 SMB customers. In a recent survey of our datacenter with over 1,000 servers, we saw that the average CPU-usage was only 12%. On the other hand, investments in new server hardware, datacenter space and the cost of power and cooling – now at an...
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Guest Post: Going Live with Hyper-V for MyHosting.com
Published 28 July 8 3:44 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, my name is Stephen Nichols, VP of sales and marketing for SoftCom Technology Consulting, which is the company behind MyHosting.com , a leading global provider of affordable web, email and application hosting. We have been actively engaged with Microsoft technologies since we began in the h osting industry back in 1997. We are part of Gold Certified Partner program with competencies in Data Management...
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Analyst perspectives on Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization strategy & System Center evolution, from MMS 2008
Published 2 May 8 1:34 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Greetings! My name is Robb Mapp and I’m the analyst relations manager in Server & Tools focused on System Center management tools and Integrated Virtualization. This week at MMS, we had nearly 60 industry analysts participate in a summit focused on strategies for systems management and virtualization. These summits are great for Microsoft, as it gives us an opportunity to truly engage in a productive...
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