I\u2019m not at the poor cousin of the TechEd family this week. Last year\u2019s experience put me off. However, I\u2019m tuned into the keynote to see what\u2019s happening. The very good news is that Stephen Elop (the speaker at last year\u2019s keynote where half of the room walked out) has left for Nokia and that Brad Anderson (Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Management & Security Division) is taking over the duty.<\/p>\n
While I\u2019m waiting \u2026 I would expect lots of System Center v.Next\/2011 content to be on show this year. Those products tend to make big headlines at MMS and almost all of the family has some big release next year .. OpsMgr, VMM, ConfigMgr. Oh \u2026 here we go \u2026<\/p>\n
Brad starts off my pitching \u201cthe cloud\u201d. It\u2019s not a surprise. And the message is \u2026. .everyone else in cloud is wrong; Platform-as-a-Service is the way to go. The huge investment in Azure did not affect that ;-) Dagnammit \u2013 I don\u2019t have enough drink in the house for the \u201cMS keynote – cloud drinking game\u201d.<\/p>\n
Windows Phone is next up. It\u2019s only launching today in the USA. The first pitch is \u201cchoice\u201d. Obviously aiming at where MS feels Apple is weak, i.e. lack of handset variety. Some would say that makes Apple is strong because the control the hardware\/OS integration completely. The see-it-all-at-once and social media integration in WP7 is very good on the face of it (I actually have an iPhone rather than WP7). WP7 should also be controllable using System Center. Not much reaction at all to a \u201cdo you want a demo of it?\u201d question by Anderson. Problem: geeks are at the show and they\u2019ve already seen the demo. It\u2019s a demo of the apps really \u2013 aimed squarely at the developers in the audience. Nice looking apps from Tesco and Ebay. Eek, the developer demo is canned. Looks pretty similar to what I saw in the PDC keynote. Dev stuff \u2013 I\u2019m taking a quick power nap. Brad is back with the news that since the European launch 3 weeks ago, 600 European apps are published.<\/p>\n
We need to deliver apps to users in a predictable and secure way. There is tension between users and IT \u2013 gimme gimme gimme versus control. I smell ConfigMgr v.Next. It\u2019s all about IT delivery being focused on the user, e.g. user pulling down apps and the apps following the user around to different PCs if they are the \u201cowner\u201d PC. User centric client computing is the brand that MS is using. Ahh \u2026 SP1 first. Ah \u2026 Windows 7 marketing first.<\/p>\n
88% of worldwide businesses (what size is not mentioned) say they will move to Windows 7 in the next 2 years.<\/p>\n
SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 new virtualisation features:<\/p>\n
Michael Kleef comes on stage. He big-ups the Citrix relationship. Citrix are embracing RemoteFX and it\u2019ll feature in XenDesktop. Now we see IE8 running in a XenDesktop VM via ICA. A flash video in full fidelity and audio is playing. HP BL460 blades are in the background and a perfmon view shows the CPU utilisation is minimal \u2013 because the work is being done by the GPU. A Silverlight application in IE9 is run with lots of graphics, moving bits, and BI reporting. Hmm, the Citrix WAN scaling tools can allegedly stretch RemoteFX over the WAN \u2026 interesting!<\/p>\n
Back to the cloud with SaaS. Office365 is a next generation replacement for BPOS. Intune (very basic<\/em><\/u><\/strong> desktop management) is on deck. Demo of Office365. We\u2019re in yawn-ville at the moment. This keynote needs a shot of adrenaline. InTune is being sold as \u201cmanagement\u201d. It\u2019s very, very light compared to ConfigMgr. Nice idea \u2013 but I\u2019d rather see a cloud based child-site for ConfigMgr. Anderson promises that InTune will become as rich as ConfigMgr.<\/p>\n A RC of ForeFront EndPoint Protection is available today. It is based on the same architecture as ConfigMgr. That means you can have one integrated infrastructure to manage desktops and servers configuration and<\/em> security. And that\u2019s all there is about that. I guess the ForeFront teams got more pop today than they did last year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s cloud (IaaS), cloud (PaaS) and private cloud for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n Infrastructure as a Service. Private Cloud computing from MS is Hyper-V and System Center. What momentum does Hyper-V have? Hyper-V has grown 12.6 points and VMware has grown over 4 points in the market over the last 2 years. <\/p>\n Announcements:<\/p>\n HP Hyper-V partnership: HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V is an integration between HP Blade System Matrix and MS System Center. HP is announcing HP CloudStart based on rapidly deploying private clouds based on Hyper-V.<\/p>\n What\u2019s coming in the next version of System Center? Greg Jenson has the answers. 3 key features:<\/p>\n This is made possible by the next version of VMM. We get the demo shown at TechEd NA 2010 in the Spring. This features Server App-V. VMM vNext is almost identical to what you get in Azure VM Role and that also has Server App-V. Modelling of an n-tier app architecture is shown, highlighting elasticity. That\u2019s great for techies \u2026. we want self service so that\u2019s what\u2019s up next! We see some delegation of the service template to a potential app owner. It\u2019s similar to 2008 R2 but with a service template which describes an architecture rather than deploy a VM. That\u2019s understanding the business app owners and their needs. Deploying a new service = deploy the template. Things like IIS and SQL will be deployed as virtualised applications that are abstracted from their VM\u2019s. That allows zero downtime patching of VM\u2019s from the template.<\/p>\n Azure Virtual Network allows a cross-premises domain between your site and Azure. Azure VM Role allows you to run Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs. I blogged about that announcement from PDC.<\/p>\n Power nap while Azure dev stuff is talked about. Next we see OpsMgr using the RC (but supported) management pack for Azure to monitor an Azure based application. It can respond to spikes in demand by spawning Azure instances. Careful now; don\u2019t want a nasty credit card bill at the end of the month because of elastic growth that incorrectly interprets slow response times.<\/p>\n Anderson wrapping up by saying that we will likely use a mix of cloud technologies. We have different solutions to choose from and integrate to suit the needs of our businesses.<\/p>\n Over 70% of MS research\/development resources are focused on the cloud.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not at the poor cousin of the TechEd family this week. Last year\u2019s experience put me off. However, I\u2019m tuned into the keynote to see what\u2019s happening. 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