A rumor has emerged that Microsoft will be releasing a public beta of the much awaited next version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), codenamed vNext or "Carmine". This is the version of SCVMM that will support/manage Hyper-V as well as VMware Virtual Center and Xen in the future.
It was hinted that Microsoft might release the beta at the Microsoft Management Summit next week: "He said the VMM version that will support Hyper-V will ship with the hypervisor
add-on for Windows Server 2008. He said the timeframe for that release will be
June or July. He hinted that the beta of VMM that supports Hyper-V would be released next week
at Microsoft's Management Summit in Las Vegas. In addition, he disclosed that
Microsoft has 4.5 million seats of Microsoft Application Virtualization
(SoftGrid) out in the field. He said Kidaro, which Microsoft acquired
in March, would become an
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