I went to the Microsoft Virtualization Summit today in Irvine, CA. It ended up being about how all the components of virtualization aggregate into cloud computing, how to use cloud computing to be greener, and how cloud computing will be more transparent to applications and design in the future.What I took away from today:
- Administrators in the future will be split into application administrators and datacenter administrators, Microsoft's Azure project talks in great detail to this new vision.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/default.aspx - Business IT departments will have to go to cloud computing to stay efficient, effective, and green
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/default.aspx - Microsoft is pulling some quasi kamikaze tactics on VMware's VDI product, View, by offering to convert their licensing straight across for free up to 500 users. They're calling it their "Rescue from VMware VDI"
http://www.citrixandmicrosoft.com/ - Microsoft has put together some awesome FREE dashboard gauges for monitoring products, like SQL and Exchange, into their System Center Operations Manager Product
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff369719.aspx - A FREE copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition; I can't complain. ; )
- And some rockin' photos, wooooooo
Here's the obligatory pun, "I had my head in the Clouds at Microsoft's conference today".
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