Innovative Technology Weblog

This morning Brad Anderson, General Manager Management & Services Division of Microsoft Corporation did the opening Keynote at MMS 2009 in Las Vegas. Central topic of his opening keynote was the user centric approach for end user desktop experience without the current device restriction.

Brad talked about Windows 7, App-V and Med-V giving these feature to the end user without bothering them with technical details or action to give the full functionality. With windows 7 the new feature that will help provide these goals in a secure and cost effective way will be:

• Direct Acces
• Branch Cache
• Federated Search
• Navigation
• Bitlocker
• Bitlocker on the Go
• Applocker
• Security Development lifecycle
• Powershell
• Windows client troubleshooting platform
• Deployment tools
• VDI enhancements

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 with MDOP and System Center will provide Discover & Assess, Compatibility, Deployment and User productivity, faster and easier in every stage for the modern client. To really get this on the road Microsoft is changing there client licensing ECAL to support full Client lifecycle management. New in the ECAL will be the DPM client CAL and the System Center Service Manager Client CAL. Service Manager will be key in these scenarios for delivering enriched client support, self-service and desired operation state in the Desktop optimization model, based on the infrastructure optimization model.

All these solution apply to the onsite IT infrastructure but the future of IT, Like Bob Kelly stated in yesterdays keynote, is the Cloud. Brad Anderson announced the System Center Online Desktop Manager to be available in beta shortly. The power of choice in this scenario will be the On-Premise support model, cloud support model and the combination by the use of federation. The V1 will not have the federation options but in the 6 month update cycle federation will come available shortly after the V1.

Some of the announcements made at the keynote where Configurations Manager Service pack 2 within 60 days and of course the always interesting System Center Road map.

Will keep you posted on the latest MMS 2009 news.

Regards,
Walter Eikenboom
http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com

Today at MMS 2009 Bob Kelly presented the MMS 2009 attendees a gimp on how the Cloud will effect the future of IT and how the Microsoft Windows Server and System Center will live up to the cloud expectation. The Cloud will provide Reliable, Predictable and automated service to companies and end users to drive their business and enable the evolution of IT. But is the Cloud The evolution of IT?

The cloud will provide services and scalability for all, from managed datacenters or your own organizations server room so we are the cloud!!! With this knowledge Microsoft explained the private cloud and Public cloud scenario where federation and management integrate seamless in both clouds.

The Private cloud will be the interesting part because that’s our environment connect to the world. The change in management will be the service oriented look at the infrastructure and how to scale out using the cloud to leverage with business needs, the Dynamic IT model will provide additional investments in virtualization, security and interoperability to get connected and in control. Some of the tools needed to accomplice this where announces by Bob Kelly in the MMS 2009 Keynote:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 within 30 day with key futures:

• SLA monitoring
• Visio integration
• Performance dashboard
• Linux/Unix Support by the use of open standards and common discovery for all server types
• Partner investments on PRO for VMM by HP and DELL Hardware management and cross platform MP’s for Apache, MySQL, Orcale and VMWare.

Virtual Machine Manager with cloud connection (migrating offline machines to the cloud for leveraging your resources, Demo by MaximumASP) possibilities and live migration in combination with Hyper-V in Windows server 2008 R2.

Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosters available today!

Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Enterprises within 60 days

With all these new announcements the strategies to get your business cloud ready:

Regards,
Walter Eikenboom
http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com