Virtualfuture.info

Sure, you’ve read about the Update 2 troubles. VMWare made a huge mistake by releasing something with trial-code in it, and the impact can be huge when put into production but there’s what’s bugging me : the whole world is acting like the impact it has is catastrophic.

Virtualization.info started with the topic title ”VMWare mistake shuts down thousands of Virtual Infrastructures”, later on nuanced by “may shut down”. They also state that 95% of the Fortune 500 customers use VMWare and over 50% uses VMotion. Yeah, sure they do, but do you really think that administrators working at a Fortune 500 company think : “hey wow a new patch; it’s from VMWare so it’ll be good; let’s put it into production right now!” ?

Really, lots of people are acting like there are hundreds of thousands of virtual servers around the world that have been down and we should all stop using VMWare and switch to the “beautiful” Hyper-V or XenServer solution but: Read the rest of this entry »

Steven Bink, the founder of the well known Microsoft IT Pro website Bink.nu, has started a new site about Hyper-V. You can find all Hyper-V related info, downloads and video’s at hypervoria.com. It is already filled with lots of information.

Hyper-V has finally gotten the RTM status so it’s now available for download.

I don’t think that Hyper-V is the best product on the market to provide a full blown virtualization infrastructure but hey; it’s a Microsoft products so we all know that a load of organizations will adopt it anyways. So I’ll install it this weekend, just because I need to know it, not because I want to ;).

You probably already knew that starting with version 4.5 the official name for Softgrid will be Microsoft Application Virtualization. Microsoft now announced that there will also be a new official short name: App-V.

App-V and Hyper-V, I must say, that doesn’t sound so bad. What’s next? Terminal-V, Mail-V, DB-V?

Read the article on the App-V blog.

At Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 a new training and certification program was announced. It looks like Microsoft is taking this virtualization-thing seriously ;-).

A prime example of a cutting-edge technology with tremendous potential to cut costs and increase efficiency is virtualization.

Microsoft Learning has created a series of training and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification programs that focus on Hyper-V and the forthcoming Windows Server Virtual Machine Manager, both of which are part of Microsoft’s virtualization strategy.

Available later this year.

For the ones that don’t know what this Hyper-V is all about and what to expect from it, here’s a video I found on Youtube:

EWeek.com had a Q&A with VMware’s president and CEO Diane Greene. She talks about how virtualization has changed the last year and how she thinks virtualization will develop the next 12-18 months. It’s a good read, and here are some things that interested me the most: Read the rest of this entry »