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Dave Sobel, will return to the United Kingdom (UK) to deliver his presentation, “Virtualization: What you need to know to get your business ready,” for the West of England Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC) Group. In 2009, Sobel spoke to the London, Thames Valley Park (TVP) and Midlands SBSC Groups on the same topic. This latest discussion will take place at the Thornbury Golf Club near Bristol on January 25 at 6:00 p.m. (GMT).

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Summary: Predictions for server virtualization trends in 2010.

Dave Sobel, Evolve Technologies: "Server virtualization penetration will be one of the biggest trends. With Gartner reporting penetration rates only in the teens, we'll see increasing demand in server virtualization. This will require admins to prepare management strategies for larger virtualization deployments.

Dave Sobel comments, "IT spending will loosen in 2010, but projects will still require cost justifications for approval. Server virtualization has a solid ROI, and admins who can measure and show that ROI will get projects approved."

Read the full article here: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid94_...

"We often criticize Microsoft for its overly complex software licensing, but this is the upside of that process," noted Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, a Fairfax, Va.-based Gold partner. "They're constantly looking for new ways to cover licensing scenarios that people want, and this is one example."

Check out the full article at
http://www.crn.com/software/222301027;jsessionid=I4OOPDVWO13ZZQE1GHRSKHW...

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

Dave Sobel's regular blog post on Channel Insider tours CES in Las Vegas. A must-read for you techies!

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Commentary/CES-Part-I-Future-Tech-Shop...

Dave Sobel shares his industry knowledge with readers of leading technology magazine.

Paralyzed by two-feet of snow in the Mid Atlantic storm recently got me thinking about the immense importance strong Net connectivity is going to be in the age of the cloud.

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Commentary/Contingency-Planning-for-St...

Dave Sobel shares his thoughts with SearchServerVirtualization.com:

Virtual machine (VM) sprawl is one of the most common problems administrators face -- especially in large organizations. Luckily, because it's so prevalent, admins have come up with a lot of different ways to prevent sprawl from wreaking havoc on virtual machine infrastructure.

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid94_...

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