Your Future is Virtual
Several important announcements this morning during Steveb's keynote.
- NAP in LH client will support trusted computing group standards
- other guests OS - can you say Linux?
- Microsoft is investing in increased virtualization in LH to reduce customer total cost of operations
- .vhd will be extensible
- System Center will include ability to manage virtual servers - including other OS, like Linux
- Microsoft and TAP customers has seen a 50% drop in CPU cycles on the same workloads hosted in 64 bit Virtual Server beta on 64 bit hardware
You can read the details at https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/Apr05/04-20VirtualizationInvestmentsPR.asp. To view an on-demand Web cast (including Jeff Woolsey's demonstration of Virtual Server 2005 SP1), go to https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/keynotes.asp.
Check out John Howard’s Virtual Server webcast on 29th April at 2PM GMT. Here's the registration link.
Donwload SP1 on the Virtual Server 2005 home page.