News on Azure Services has been abuzz at PDC. One of the most impressive elements on the PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure showcase container. Designed by
Microsoft
and built by Dell, this impressive piece of hardware is a key for our datacenter strategy…
One of the things I really like about Windows 7 is the inclusion of a virtualized Windows XP. I use this at home quite a bit for playing very old games and as a quarantine sandbox for suspect files. Well if you ever wanted to know much more about Windows XP Mode, Ars Technica has a great in-depth…
Paddy Falls, CTO of NeverFail Software, talks about how his company supports virtualization for both customers and in development. He describes the advantages that Hyper-V brings, lessons learned, and how they incorporated Hyper-V into their development
process.
In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Stephen Rose discusses why developers should look at using virtual environments for developing and the benefits of doing so. He addresses everything from the creation of a complete development
environment's domain in a box to how to…
Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How
does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft is very interested in virtualization…
Application virtualization is different than machine virtualization which virtualizes the machine on which an operating system (and applications) are installed. Machine virtualization provides an abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS that's running
on top of it. It also allows…
Learn how Microsoft IT implemented Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, formerly known as SoftGrid Application Virtualization. Hear the benefits of application virtualization within our environment, as well as some of
the technical limitations of the product, from a software…
On this episode of TechNet Radio, We come to you from the April 1st Heroes Happen Here Launch event in Seattle, WA.
Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer
Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist
Michael Cooper – TSP Networking
The challenges in managing virtualized environments span beyond administration of applications in both the physical and virtual layers. In this session we will review how the future datacenter can be managed with these complex scenarios.
We will also cover the features and benefits of using…
I recently sat down with Technical Fellow and
SysInternals founder Mark Russinovich to dig a bit into what's new in the Windows Server 2008 kernel. Of course, we talk about many things including HyperV, application virtualization, kernel architecture (not everybody defines an OS kernel in the…