OzVMs Interview With Michael Kleef On Hypervisor And The Future Of Virtualisation
Friday, 01 September 2006 by Michel Roth
OZvms.com has interviews Michael Kleef on Microsoft's plans on their hypervisor and the future of virtualisation.

I have been fortunate enough to have had an interview with Michael Kleef from Microsoft on their Virtualisation plans, their hypervisor product and the future of virtualisation. Michael Kleef is an IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft, and in answering our questions has shed some light on Microsoft's future in the virtualisation space.

Questions asked:

• Where is Microsoft’s hypervisor headed and what plans are down the line for the technology ?
• Does Microsoft’s current product offering compete at the same level as other companies offerings ?
• It has been mentioned in news articles that hypervisor will be coming after longhorn, is this timeframe still accurate ?
• What feature sets can you tell us about in Microsofts current and future offerings?
• How will those feature sets help the business ?
• Is the hypervisor implementation going to be at kernel level and built into the OS ?
• As an evangelist, where do you see virtualisation taking the IT industry ?
• What are your thoughts on intel and other hardware vendors moves towards virtualisation ?

Read the interview here.

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