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\u00a0 Half a year later I finished the book, and then went on to do work on Mastering Windows 7 Deployment.\u00a0 Rest; what’s that?<\/li>\n<\/li>\nSo what will happen in 2011?\u00a0 If I knew for certain then I\u2019d be a rich man.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s how my brain\u2019s synapses are firing right now:<\/p>\n
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- It will<\/em> be the year of the clouds<\/span><\/em><\/strong>: public, private and cross-premises\/hybrid.\u00a0 IBM, HP, Dell (rumoured), Fujitsu (Azure appliance) are all developing cloud platforms because they know they have to.\u00a0 Microsoft and Amazon were in first.\u00a0 Microsoft\u2019s Azure VM Role will be quite different and will have the advantage of having direct integration with the on-premises private cloud.<\/li>\n
- System Center pros are going to have a big year.\u00a0 SCVMM, OpsMgr and ConfigMgr are all releasing 2012 versions with big improvements over already fine products.\u00a0 We\u2019re still playing catch up with Opalis and Service Manager 2010.\u00a0 It will be a busy\/fun year.<\/li>\n
- The Dynamic Datacenter\/Private Cloud.\u00a0 These are slightly different but based on the same technologies.\u00a0 MIcrosoft\u2019s DSI (dynamic systems initiative) continues and evolves as always.\u00a0 More automation and compliance management is made possible via Opalis (automation) and Service Manager (compliance and control), giving us the Dynamic Datacenter based on the complete System Center package.\u00a0 The private cloud is based on VMM 2012\/VMM 2008 R2 & SCVMM SSP 2.0 and a Hyper-V compute cluster with System Center managing everything.\u00a0 Automation and self-service are the aims.\u00a0 That\u2019s because the business wants to deploy applications quickly and know they are available.\u00a0 They care nothing for the servers or network appliances beneath them.<\/li>\n
- Windows 8!?!?!?\u00a0 Rumours have appeared that Steve Ballmer will preview Windows 8 at CES in Las Vegas in January 2011.\u00a0 You can bet that\u00a0 serious development started back in the Summer once the Windows 7\/Server 2008 R2 SP1 code was developed (not bug fixed).\u00a0 Some reckon an RTM will happen in November 2011.\u00a0 I\u2019ve nothing that I can add to that but it does seem quite aggressive.\u00a0 Commentators are already saying it will continue the approach of Windows 7: evolve rather than revolutionise.\u00a0 That seems like a wise move to me (see XP to Vista).\u00a0 Most big changes might be in the GUI, based on the leaks that were revealed a while back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Whoops! My Aldi crystal ball just rolled off the table and hit the ground.\u00a0 That\u2019s about all I have in me for now.\u00a0 What do you think 2011 is going to bring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2010 was to be the year of the cloud.\u00a0 Did it happen for you?\u00a0 Odds are: no.\u00a0 What was 2010, really? A few things stand out for me. This was the year of the cloud\u2026. the ash cloud from Iceland.\u00a0 That sucker ruined international transport by airplane and will give MS Lync sales people a … Continue reading “2011 Crystal Ball Time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t