Tuesday, May 24, 2011

VMM 2012 Beta CEP starts on Thursday (May 26th, 2011)

Hey, just back from TechEd North America, and wanted to let all of you know about a new thing coming up this Thursday.

On Thursday, we are starting our VMM 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program. This will be a Guided Evaluation of all the new, cool features, and use cases. I am really excited about this program, come join up and learn how VMM 2012 will bring you to the Private Cloud.

Kenon

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Showing the Private Cloud on the Private Cloud

Hey, I’m back (at least for now). I have been writing over on the Microsoft System Center Nexus blog for a while now, and haven’t been writing here. I wanted to resurrect this blog so that I can keep my personal opinions on one blog and my corporate opinions on another.

I just recently posted about how, at Microsoft TechEd 2011 we used the Private Cloud to show off the Private Cloud in most of the SIM Pods at Teched North America.

In that post I showed some pictures of the what it looked like on screen. Here I wanted to show some of the real world what it looked like in real life.

First of all, I wanted to thank HynesITe for all of their help in building this Private Cloud. We were able to have many different numbers and sizes of Virtual Machines available and they all were able to be shared on this Private Cloud infrastructure. Take a look at the hardware:

IMG_1540IMG_1541

I am sure you have all had setups like this. Corey and Team from HynesITe were at the controls, making sure that everything was running smoothly:

IMG_1624

And the Pod Experience looked like this:

IMG_1615IMG_1616IMG_1617IMG_1619

The Pods were great, and we were able to show off many more solutions than the 8GB POD Hardware would allow.

Private Cloud. WOW!