MS Management Summit sightings - VMware and Kidaro

I arrived into Vegas (baby!) today for 3 days spread across Microsoft Management Summit and Interop Las Vegas 2008. And the conferences couldn't have been timed better as it was pooring rain when I left SeaTac and sunny and hot (for me) upon arrival...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 29, 2008.

Hosting Virtualization MVPs

This week, Microsoft hosted 1,800 tech professionals here in Redmond for the annual MVP Global Summit, and I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to chat with a number of Virtualization MVPs from the community.  Since you might not be...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 19, 2008.

HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 2...

Virtualization Nation, Last week, I blogged about the importance of HA for unplanned host downtime. By the number of responses, this is clearly a hot topic. Today, I was going to discuss planned downtime, specifically, the differences between Quick...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 16, 2008.

HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...

Virtualization Nation, Generally speaking, I like to focus my blogs on what we’re doing at Microsoft regarding Hyper-V virtualization and pretend the rest of the Internet doesn't exist. However, there’s some buzz on the web about a topic that I...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 10, 2008.

Isolation of VMs

Our resident VM security dev lead, Brandon Baker, posted a blog today about isolation of VMs. Brandon shares his thoughts on VM security, many of which he also shared to attendees of the BlackHat security conferences in U.S. and Japan last year....

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 07, 2008.

Disaster Recovery – not a nightmare with virtualization

Hello all, my name is Chris Steffen and I am the Principal Technical Architect at Kroll Factual Data.    Kroll Factual Data is a company that provides business information to mortgage lenders, consumer lenders, property...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 03, 2008.

Linux integration components for Hyper-V RC now available!

Virtualization Nation, The virtualization team is pleased to announce the release of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC! These components provide compatibility with the recent Hyper-V RC release. You can obtain the Linux Integration...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 01, 2008.

Kidaro to be added to Microsoft's desktop virtualization products

So we just announced the intent to acquire Kidaro, a desktop virtualization vendor based in Silicon Valley and with R&D in Israel. Kidaro entered the desktop virtualization management market nearly 17 months ago with their Kidaro Managed...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on March 13, 2008.

VMworld Europe 2008 - stay safe today

Day 2 began with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum's keynote, which Alessandro outlined here. And the security pat-down to get through the door foreshadowed the latter portion of Mendel's keynote, which focused on a new security initiative by VMware. Called...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on February 27, 2008.

VMworld Europe 2008 - will cost be a factor?

We'll be a gold sponsor at VMworld Europe next week. I'm part of the crew headed to Cannes (along with Jeff Woolsey and Mike Neil and others) to meet with customers, partners, bloggers. We'll demo Hyper-V beta, SCVMM 2007, Terminal Services...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on February 23, 2008.