Hilton Travis in the land down under did a blog post on getting started with Hyper-V. I think it's great. Read on!

http://hiltont.blogspot.com/2010/01/hyper-v-in-smb.html

What can I say? There's a bunch of great material (including two pieces from me) on Karl's fantastic Sampler CD:

http://blog.smallbizthoughts.com/2009/12/smb-books-free-sampler-cd.html

Check it out.

Dave

Fairfax, Va. -- December 9, 2009 -- SMB Virtualization, a firm providing virtualization information and training for small and medium sized information technology (IT) businesses, has partnered with Third Tier, a leading provider of remote support services for IT professionals, to offer advanced incident and project support services for virtualized networks.
SMB Virtualization supplies IT firms with the knowledge to sell and implement virtualization projects for their clients through training via whitepapers, books, videos and DVD sets.

A great interview I did with Aaron Booker of VarVid.

From Channel Insider..

I just completed another hardware spec. Like every hardware spec I’ve done in the past six years, I spent a while tweaking CPU, memory and disk. I could spend an entire day playing with the various RAID configurations for performance versus cost. If I add lots of spindles to a system, I increase performance, but also drive up cost dramatically.

There’s nothing glamorous about hardware.

I've been making an effort to write more and put it up on Channel Insider. So you'll get a double dose of my rants and raves as I link to them over there.

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Commentary/Applications-On-the-Go-341315/

The vision of unbound applications is compelling, and has me thinking about virtualized desktops and applications more and more as I design systems.

Virtual desktops and applications are increasingly interesting to me.

I had quite a week at the HTG event and ConnectWise Partner Summit. Besides the great speakers and engaging meeting, Channel Insider's Larry Walsh and I had a great discussion about Cloud and Managed Services.

The discussion led to a blog post, which I'll quote a little here...

We both were down at the HTG meetings, and he was presenting the Project Nimbus results to a packed room of my HTG colleagues.

Citrix recently made their hypervisor open source, and the Tech Target Virtualization Advisory Board had some thoughts

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid94_gci1374113,00.html

I'm presenting a newly updated version of my presentation from WPC as a 5W25 webinar, and wanted to let everyone know about it. This is going to be a good one, and contain new material!

Go visit http://www.mssmallbiz.com/training/ and sign up for my session (or follow the direct link below).

Virtualization is becoming mainstream, and are you ready with your practice? Learn from Dave Sobel, author of “Virtualization: Defined.

I'm going to go off topic here, but it's my blog and I can do what I want. If you don't like it, I'll refund what you paid me for reading it.

Next week is the ConnectWise Partner Summit.