Tag: Virtualization
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New Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Partners Double Down on Private Cloud Vision
Tech Ed North America 2011 http://bit.ly/mdfwpA kicked into high gear today with news that Cisco and NetApp are participating in Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program. Together, NetApp and Cisco have developed a pre-validated private cloud solution for customers who want to deploy with less risk, more flexibility and choice, and more quickly. Their solution -
Brad Anderson posts from MMS – Private Cloud Computing: It’s all About the Apps
From the sold-out Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Brad Anderson posts about empowering our customers with Private Cloud computing. This post comes directly from the Official Microsoft blog. View the associated press release here. Private Cloud Computing: It’s all About the Apps  This is a big week for Microsoft and many of our enterprise IT customers. -
See why Target trusts Microsoft Virtualization
A press release published today confirms that Target Corporation has 1,750 stores running Hyper-V and, in a related case study, it shows how Microsoft’s Virtualization solution will save the company millions of dollars in hardware, electrical, and maintenance costs. -
The RemoteFX industry ships products today
Hi, I’m Rob Williams, the Partner Ecosystem Program Manager for RemoteFX at Microsoft. Today is a big day for Microsoft and our RemoteFX partners. Today’s release of RemoteFX with Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows 7 SP1 is the culmination of two years’ close collaboration between engineers at Microsoft and engineers in -
3 Reasons why Partners Choose Microsoft for Customer Journeys to the Cloud
Hello! I’m Kevin McCuistion, Director of Partner programs in Microsoft’s Server and Cloud marketing team. My team helps deliver programs like the Hyper-V Cloud Practice Builder, Hyper-V Cloud Service Provider program, and Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track. One of the most exciting parts of my job is working with partners to help them design and deploy -
GET PRE-VALIDATED PRIVATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WITH HYPER-V CLOUD FAST TRACK
If you’re looking to get started implementing a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure, the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program can offer invaluable help by delivering pre-validated reference architectures. The Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track solutions are currently being offered by 6 Microsoft hardware partners, who cover a broad swath of the Windows Server hardware market. Hit the -
Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Server Growth?
In an interesting piece by Ryan Nichols at Computerworld yesterday: Cloud computing by the numbers: What do all the statistics mean, Nichols summarizes some recent research findings on the market potential of cloud computing, quoting impressive market forecasts from sources such as Gartner ($150 billion by 2013), Merrill Lynch ($160 billion by 2011),and AMI Partners -
SP1: the Bite-Sized Versions
We’ve been getting some feedback that the current version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 download package was too large — 1.5GB for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions in one package. So we’ve split them down out into their individual packages for easier downloading. Head on over to the Windows Server SP1 Resource -
Linux Integration Services version 2.1 goes RTM
For those who may not have seen this on the Microsoft Virtualization blog, the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services for Linux Version 2.1 just went RTM! This is great news for customers using virtualization in a heterogeneous data center environment. Hyper-V has supported Linux as a guest OS for a long time, and this new release really enhances that support -
Available for Download: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta!
We’re at the sold out Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C. talking to our partners about the public beta release today of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. We managed to get this puppy out the door a few weeks early, so take advantage and download the code to -
AMD Launches New Server CPU Platform
Today, AMD has launched the AMD Opteron™ 6000 CPU series. This represents the latest AMD advances in server CPU technology and promises to work well for Windows Server 2008 R2 customers and partners. “Microsoft has partnered with AMD in the data center since the original AMD Opteron processors were launched in 2003, and we naturally