David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture
New FriendFeed Site Went Live Today
The beta has been out for a couple weeks but the upgraded FriendFeed site went live today. Details...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/29/2009
One Million Server Datacenter?
IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article online about mega-datacenters and whether a million server...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/29/2009
MMS Keynote Streaming Live Now
MMS Day 1 Keynote: Bob Kelly, Microsoft corporate vice president, April 28, 2009, 8:30 am PT
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/28/2009
New Site: TalkingAboutWindows.com
Over on the Building Community One Brick at a Time blog, a new web site, TalkingAboutWindows.com was...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/27/2009
Is the CMDB just a dream?
Glenn O'Donnell over at Forrester had a great post titled “Is a CMDB even possible?” that I just...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/27/2009
New VDI content on Microsoft.com
There is updated desktop virtualization content at www.microsoft.com/vdi There are a couple of...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/24/2009
Virtualization Books from Microsoft Insiders
Two new books on Hyper-V have been released or coming soon. These are written by some of the most...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/23/2009
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: More features, still free!
Announced today over on the Virtualization Team Blog, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/20/2009
Extreme Hardware
Ran across two videos this morning showing some extreme hardware: 24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of...
Author: DavidZie Date: 03/10/2009
Microsoft Research: Peering into the future of Cloud Computing
Microsoft has created a new group within Microsoft Research called Cloud Computing Futures headed by...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/28/2009
FAST Search and SharePoint News
Microsoft Enterprise Search Goes Deep and Wide "Today at FASTforward’09 in Las Vegas, Microsoft...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/10/2009
Azure Services Training Kit - February Update
Following up on yesterday's post, today an updated Azure Services Training Kit was released: The...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/06/2009
Getting Started with Azure and Microsoft Cloud Computing
Here are a couple resources for getting started learning about Microsoft's cloud computing strategy:...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/05/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta - Live Migration Architecture and Step by Step Guide
Two new documents were released recently that describe the new Hyper-V features in Windows Server...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/01/2009
Demos of Live Migration and Hyper-V Server
Edwin demos Live Migration and Hyper-V Server:Demo - Hyper-V Server and Live Migration
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/14/2008
What Microsoft didn't say at its virtualization event
A short but insightful post over on CNET: What Microsoft didn't say at its virtualization event...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/10/2008
Virtualization Launch Videos Posted
Highlights and Full Length videos from the keynotes have been posted:...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/09/2008
WorldWide Telescope is Incredible!
Worldwide Telescope is the coolest application I've seen in a very, very long time. I urge everyone...
Author: DavidZie Date: 05/13/2008
Students: Get Visual Studio 2008, Expression Studio, and more for Free!
Today Microsoft announced a new program for students called DreamSpark that's all about getting our...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/19/2008
Windows Server 2008 RTM!
Windows Server 2008 officially was officially signed off for RTM today! The press release is here....
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/04/2008
Big Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Announcements
At TechEd in Barcelona today, we made several major announcements. It's important to look at the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 11/12/2007
Hypervisor Functional Specification
If you really want to go deep on Windows Server Virtualization, check out our announcement of the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/26/2007
Very Interesting Virtualization Video
Eric Traut, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and one of the key architects behind our kernel...
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/19/2007
Want to learn about Microsoft's virtualization solutions?
Below is a link to a great virtualization webcast. I met Edwin and Jeff at TechReady this year, both...
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/10/2007
Installing the Windows Server Virtualization Preview (Viridian)
As many have heard by now, a preview version of Windows Server Virtualization has shipped on the CD...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/25/2007
Virtual Server Cookbooks
The links below are to a series of cookbooks for Virtual Server by Microsoft and Partners that are...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/20/2007
Great List of SQL 2008 Resources
If you want to learn more about SQL 2008, here is a great list of resources.
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/19/2007
Major Virtualization Announcements!
Wow, some big news over on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog! SCVMM is released to manufacturing....
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/06/2007
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Upgrade Tip
Robert Larson has a good post on an issue that is cropping up quite a bit for folks upgrading to...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/24/2007
Sun's Red Shift Theory
This is a very interesting article on a theory by Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos that over the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/20/2007
IIS Gaining Rapidly on Apache
I hadn't taken note of the market share numbers in a while but check out the results from the most...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/07/2007
What is SoftGrid Application Virtualization?
It is very cool application virtualization technology. Check out this post for details:...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/06/2007
TechReady Day 3 and 4: Windows Server 2008
My schedule on day 3 and 4 was very heavy on sessions dealing with virtualization and various...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/27/2007
TechReady Day 2: BillG and Virtualization
Day 2 at TechReady brought a keynote by Bill Gates and another Q&A session afterwards. The...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/25/2007
TechReady Day 1: Asking Microsoft's COO a Question!
Hello from TechReady 5 in Seattle. Like last year, I'm going to blog each day this week with news...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/24/2007
New Blog and a Post About Routing Between Virtual Networks
Robert Larson, a fellow Microsoft Consulting Services colleague and co-author of the upcoming...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/01/2007
VMRCPlus - A better way to manage Virtual Machines!
As you can imagine, a company full of great developers such as Microsoft has a bunch of folks that...
Author: DavidZie Date: 06/27/2007
New SoftGrid Page on Microsoft.com
There is some new SoftGrid content on Microsoft.com to check out. Softgrid is part of the Microsoft...
Author: DavidZie Date: 06/20/2007
Microsoft.com is running on IIS7 at 99.83% Availability
Interesting post and stats over on www.iss.net www.iis.net. Microsoft.com has now migrated all but...
Author: DavidZie Date: 06/19/2007
Marc Andreessen on Personal Productivity
Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame), started blogging recently at https://blog.pmarca.com/. So far his...
Author: DavidZie Date: 06/12/2007
Microsoft and Juniper Announce NAP Interoperability
From this press release: "Juniper Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT)...
Author: DavidZie Date: 05/21/2007
Changes to the Security Bulletin Advanced Notification Service
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced some changes to the Advanced Notification...
Author: DavidZie Date: 05/16/2007
Thoughts on the Windows Server Virtualization Announcement
By now most readers of this blog will have heard that some of the planned Windows Server...
Author: DavidZie Date: 05/13/2007
Mix'07 is getting great press
Lots of good press coming out of Mix. I was able to catch the keynote webcast. It was great to hear...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/30/2007
The Terminal Services Team is on fire!
As if TS Gateway, TS Remote Programs, and TS Web Access in Longhorn weren't enough, the Terminal...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/27/2007
Released: Longhorn Beta 3
Longhorn Beta 3 has been released and is available at the link below. This is a major milestone...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/26/2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 is Released
Beta 2 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager was posted to connect.microsoft.com last night. Here...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/25/2007
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
This report is a very interesting read. It discusses recent trends and data collected around...
Author: DavidZie Date: 04/25/2007
Longhorn and Microsoft Certification
Over on one of the more creatively named Microsoft blogs: "So, a booth babe and a geek walk in to a...
Author: DavidZie Date: 03/29/2007