A Microsoft TechEd picture is worth a thousand words

Summary: Slides from various presentations at Microsoft TechEd 2011, which was held the week of May 16 in Atlanta.

By Mary Jo Foley | May 20, 2011 -- 07:46 GMT (00:46 PDT)

There were hundreds of sessions at this week's Microsoft TechEd 2011 conference in Atlanta, covering a wide swath of topics for IT professionals and developers. There were sessions on everything from Forefront Unified Gateway, to the consumerization of IT. I've been slogging through the slides -- which Microsoft is posting along with the Webcast presentations from the show -- looking for some of the more interesting tidbits. (At least interesting to this Microsoft watcher. Your interests may, and most definitely will, vary.)

I've pulled out a handful of the slides I felt explained Microsoft's various products and strategies most succintly and tellingly. The first one here is Microsoft's latest cloud-computing architectural diagram. Microsoft's cloud diagrams have come a long way since the company first attempted to explain its public/private/hybrid strategy. This one highlights the key products Microsoft is positioning as being central to its public and private cloud offerings.

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20 May, 2011 12:06

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20 May, 2011 15:29

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Denali Slide

Note that this slide only calls out the Beyond Relational technology and does not mention AlwaysOn or the new columnstore index or the new TSQL extensions.

Michael_65

20 May, 2011 16:29

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RE: A Microsoft TechEd picture is worth a thousand words

Even companies that put the brakes on their upgrades during the Vista years (then were devastated by the financial crisis) are now starting to spend $$ on Windows 7 to help secure their networks. Although, I do think Microsoft is on the wrong track in thinking 7 is a tablet OS.

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23 May, 2011 09:26

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