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Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy |
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006
by Michel Roth
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Virtualization Strategy Magazine speaks with Mike Neil, Senior Director of Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft about their roadmap for virtualization and the new VHD format. Mike Neil is senior director for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Wash. Mike is now focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including the Windows hypervisor, as part of Windows Server “Longhorn” and directing Microsoft broader vision for virtualization. Prior to this role, Mike was the product unit manager for Microsoft’s virtualization efforts since 2003. Virtual PC and Virtual Server are the client and server virtualization products from Microsoft that allow customers to run two or more operating systems simultaneously on one physical machine.
Podcast contents:
• Intro
• The Demise of Virtual PC for Mac
• Virtual PC 2007 Beta
• Microsoft’s Virtualization Roadmap
• Three layers of Virtualization
• Extension of Resource Management
• Revision of Licensing model
• Fostering interoperability
• Support of linux
• Softricity Aquisition
• SoftGrid
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (beta)
• Intergration with System Center Suite
• Supporting standards through DMTF
• Microsoft VHD format news
• Changes to licensing model
• Instance based licensing
• Server based licensing
• VMworld
• Closing
Listen to it here.
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