Wow – I never intended to take that long of a break between blog posts, I apologize to my handful of readers (family really)! One reason is that I've taken on a new role at EMC in which I'll no longer be focused just on Microsoft virtualization for the company but I'm not overseeing our internal Microsoft community. I'm really excited about this because EMC has been a partner to Microsoft for well over a decade and within EMC we have some of the best Microsoft technologist in the industry – I truly believe this!
This new community I'll be responsible for building out will consist of the best and most talented Microsoft technologist not only within EMC but also with our partners. The goal of this team will be to work with one another (including pre-sales, post-sales, consulting, support, engineering resources) to share experiences and knowledge to help make everyone more informed. We'll be creating a new community portal for posting information including a place where our customers can access important files and interact with the Microsoft specialist community. We'll be creating new demos, helping to influence product management to continue to make our products even better when used in a Microsoft environment as well as helping to shape our Proven Solution roadmap. Stay tuned for more details on how to access the portal and gain access to these new resources we will be making available.
One thing that happened while I was away from the blog was Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in which Microsoft made some noise by opening up about the upcoming Windows 8 including significant changes to Hyper-V which Microsoft feels will put their technology on par with other virtualization technologies in the market (this was on the same day that VMware announced their new licensing model which has some customers scratching their head).
What's new? Well, most of the major changes we will need to wait for Microsoft to officially announce but one thing they talked about at WPC include supporting more than 16 virtual CPUs per virtual machine which will allow them to scale up in the Enterprise & hosting space, an area they haven't really penetrated to date. Microsoft also discussed AppController (previously known as Concero) which will help customers build private and public clouds with an ability to deploy applications through self-service mechanisms. Microsoft continues to put emphasis in the management of virtual (including VMware and Citrix virtual machines) and physical resources as their primary strategy for winning the DataCenter. These changes to System Center tell me that they are looking beyond the hypervisor and focusing on how to simplify the design, deployment and management of cloud technologies. These will be interesting times ahead in the battle for the cloud!
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Posted by: Ting Wu | 10/16/2011 at 07:33 PM