Wednesday, September 02, 2009
PacITPros BranchCache presentation posted
The presentation I gave on BranchCache has been posted up on the PacITPros website here and the MS slide deck content is here. There were some questions about Active Directory requirements and I will post some clarifications requirements on that shortly. VMworld is still going on and there are a lot of options happening in the Cloud area that IT Pros should be keeping an eye on as they start to virtualize their environments and are looking for DR/BC options.
- Ed
- Ed
Labels: Microsoft BranchCache, VMworld
Monday, August 31, 2009
Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in time for VMworld
Seems Microsoft wants to leverage some buzz at VMworld and released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 which is supporting a bunch of new features. You can check out their blog to see more info, the highlights are:
Up to 8 processors per physical server
Up to 64 logical processors
Up to 1 TB of physical memory
Live migration
High availability
It is good that VMware has some competition to push it to continue to innovate and drive new and exciting things to market. Plus never, ever count Microsoft out, they still get a whole additional version number before folks consider their product "ready" to use, which means they will get lots of attention pretty soon.
- Ed
Up to 8 processors per physical server
Up to 64 logical processors
Up to 1 TB of physical memory
Live migration
High availability
It is good that VMware has some competition to push it to continue to innovate and drive new and exciting things to market. Plus never, ever count Microsoft out, they still get a whole additional version number before folks consider their product "ready" to use, which means they will get lots of attention pretty soon.
- Ed
Labels: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMworld
Thursday, August 27, 2009
VMworld 2009 - San Francisco next week
VMware's VMworld 2009 is next week in downtown San Francisco and I picked up an Expo pass (Solutions Exchange) to be able to drop in for a day to see all the exciting stuff happening in the virtualization world.
It looks like Cisco is going to have a huge showing at the event this year. There is a lot of buzz around UCS, Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000 and 1000v and the new Data Center 3.0 architecture. If you want to get your toes wet on some of the happenings with Cisco's involvement you should check out Colin McNamara's blog, he has been doing some great posts about all the happenings with UCS. Colin is also on twitter.
- Ed
It looks like Cisco is going to have a huge showing at the event this year. There is a lot of buzz around UCS, Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000 and 1000v and the new Data Center 3.0 architecture. If you want to get your toes wet on some of the happenings with Cisco's involvement you should check out Colin McNamara's blog, he has been doing some great posts about all the happenings with UCS. Colin is also on twitter.
- Ed
Labels: Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, VMware, VMworld
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