Parallels Summit - Birger Steen
Parallels' CEO discusses event attendance, Parallels' strategy, partners and a competitive overview.
Parallels' CEO discusses event attendance, Parallels' strategy, partners and a competitive overview.
Microsoft is noted for a media relations strategy that persuades otherwise jaded analysts, journalists and consultants to write about products and services long before they're really available for public consumption. It appears that Nimbula is in the process of executing a similar strategy.
Microsoft offers desktop virtualization tools to address Windows XP and Windows Vista to Windows 7 migration issues.
Microsoft, however, is more than likely going to do something foolish like make some individuals pay for each and every operating system used or place some artificial limits on workloads based upon version of the operating system an individual has selected. As in the past, Microsoft would then be propelling those needing technology as a way to move forward to other host operating environments such as Linux.
Microsoft's Matt McSpirit responds to yesterday's post
There are many ways to look at markets and individual companies. Each is useful to certain people at certain times and not very useful at all at other times.
The current buzz is that Microsoft's Windows 2008 Server R2 will be the last version of the operating system that will support Intel's Itanium. My colleague Mary Jo Foley posted Microsoft pulls the plug on future Itanium support on April 5th on this very topic.
Microsoft and Red Hat have come to an agreement allowing virtualization technology from each company to support virtual machines containing the others operating environment. My colleagues Mary-Jo Folley (see Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pact) and Paula Rooney (see It’s true: Microsoft and Red Hat cooperate on virtualization) have both comment on this move.
After the announcement that Satya Nadella is the new CEO of Microsoft, the discussion appeared to focus on what changes to its technology must be done. Partners need to be considered too.
While at Citrix's mega analyst event a while back, I saw a fantastic demonstration of both HA and fault tolerant configurations using Marathon Technologies' everRun combined with Citrix's XenServer. Well, the folks at Marathon are doing it again, this time with Microsoft and Hyper-V. What Marathon has accomplished is shear industrial sorcery.