Bob Muglia kicked off todays Tech-Ed 2008 Professionals keynote focusing heavily on virtualization.
Muglia introduced several Microsoft workers to demonstrate Hyper-V beta, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization beta and Microsoft Online beta.
Microsoft purchased its subsidiary named Kidaro in March this year. Kidaro provides premier enterprise-class platform for deploying, managing and securing virtualization across corporate desktops and laptops. Kidaro eliminates key desktop computing challenges, presenting mobile and roaming users with the same managed, familiar corporate infrastructure, and allowing IT to apply the same authentication, connectivity, control, patching and security practices employed for internal users. Microsoft has rebranded the offerings as Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This will allow seamless virtual sessions on desktops and to offer applications fully virtualized.
Microsoft believes application virtualization is a good opportunity for them and customers and they are working hard with companies like Citrix to ensure their systems are inexpensive, offer great performance and are rock solid stable.
Muglia announced that Hyper-V performed as good as and better than the main competitor, VMWare ESX. Microsoft is committed to releasing Hyper-V in August and they want to try and beat that date.
Microsoft demonstrated their online beta which introduces exchange, sharepoint and live meeting hosting for businesses. Muglia believes most businesses could require hosted services in future but confirmed Microsoft will still be working on versions of Exchange that the enterprise can manage themselves.
The keynote ended with a quick demonstration of SQL Server 2008 and the announcement that this is now at the RC0 stage.
Bob Muglia kicked off todays Tech-Ed 2008 Professionals keynote focusing heavily on virtualization.
Muglia introduced several Microsoft workers to demonstrate Hyper-V beta, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization beta and Microsoft Online beta.
Microsoft purchased its subsidiary named Kidaro in March this year. Kidaro provides premier enterprise-class platform for deploying, managing and securing virtualization across corporate desktops and laptops. Kidaro eliminates key desktop computing challenges, presenting mobile and roaming users with the same managed, familiar corporate infrastructure, and allowing IT to apply the same authentication, connectivity, control, patching and security practices employed for internal users. Microsoft has rebranded the offerings as Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This will allow seamless virtual sessions on desktops and to offer applications fully virtualized.
Microsoft believes application virtualization is a good opportunity for them and customers and they are working hard with companies like Citrix to ensure their systems are inexpensive, offer great performance and are rock solid stable.
Muglia announced that Hyper-V performed as good as and better than the main competitor, VMWare ESX. Microsoft is committed to releasing Hyper-V in August and they want to try and beat that date.
Microsoft demonstrated their online beta which introduces exchange, sharepoint and live meeting hosting for businesses. Muglia believes most businesses could require hosted services in future but confirmed Microsoft will still be working on versions of Exchange that the enterprise can manage themselves.
The keynote ended with a quick demonstration of SQL Server 2008 and the announcement that this is now at the RC0 stage.