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Providing Virtualization Information & Training for Small and Medium Business IT Consultants

Providing Virtualization Information & Training for Small and Medium Business IT Consultants
The goal of MeriTalk is to help the U.S. government determine how to reduce its yearly information technology spending. The event is FREE and about 1,300 people have registered to attend. Featured speakers and panelists include executives from Google and the U.S. Postal Service.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR201002...
Register Here:
http://www.meritalk.com/home.php
I love this piece. Tons of fun, and some really great concepts for really explaining Virtualization.
How to Explain Virtualization to Your Friends - ReadWriteCloud: ""
Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Performance Paper
If you have been looking for VHD performance data the paper below should
give you a lot of what you have been looking to find. The paper
compares VHD performance on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
R2. It uses the new Native VHD implementation for R2 and loopback VHD
2008.
Microsoft has launched a great virtualization community. Twitter feeds, blog feeds, and links to lots of great resources. Something to be checking out!
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/community.aspx
Enjoy!
In Lee Pender's latest blog post on Redmond Channel Partner, he discusses Microsoft's use of virtualization to get customers to migrate to WIndows 7.
"If Microsoft had a tag line for the move to Windows 7, it would likely be "Virtualize It!" This week, Redmond added a bunch of virtualization applications to its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2010. MDOP is a set of tools geared toward helping enterprise customers migrate to new software, especially Windows 7."
“I’ve long laughed that my crystal ball is both cracked and filled with grey smoke, but anticipating trends is part of being a good business owner. I think the biggest opportunity in 2010 is the ability to leverage data within an organization. Business intelligence, and the ability to make decisions based on data provided in real time, is ever important." Dave Sobel
See what else Dave, and other inspirational leaders, have to say in "Advice for Positive Growth"
http://www.slideshare.net/susannedansey/adivce-for-positive-growth-for-2010
Spotted on one of my email lists:
As organizations seek a more dynamic infrastructure, they are increasingly moving to deploy virtualization in their environments. The benefits are considerable - increased efficiency and performance as well as cost savings. However, the deployment of virtualization can also lead to a more complex and risky security environment. In a virtual environment, all exploitation risks are now consolidated into one physical target where exploiting one system could potentially allow access and control of multiple systems on that server (or the server itself).
Check out Dave Sobel's interview about "Virtualizaion: Defined," on The Business Authors Show - March 4!
Download details: Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios: "This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. You can use this guide to become familiar with Hyper-V and the process of creating and managing virtual machines.