{"id":11930,"date":"2011-12-13T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:12:00","slug":"best-hyper-v-marketing-ever-by-vmware-makes-me-busier-than-ive-been-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11930","title":{"rendered":"Best Hyper-V Marketing Ever \u2026 By VMware \u2026 Makes Me Busier Than I\u2019ve Been In Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve said more than enough about the VMware licensing fiasco from the Summer.&#160; It turns out, that interest in Hyper-V (and System Center) by partners and customers is higher than ever.&#160; And that\u2019s made me busier than ever.&#160; In the past 6 or so weeks I\u2019ve done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 corners tour of Ireland road show<\/li>\n<li>Countless meetings<\/li>\n<li>3 Hyper-V Immersion events (1 day of crash course education) with 80+ people at each in Dublin.<\/li>\n<li>Developed and delivered a bespoke Hyper-V\/VMM training course<\/li>\n<li>Presented at E2E on Hyper-V (current and future)<\/li>\n<li>Done consulting on OpsMgr and ConfigMgr<\/li>\n<li>And somewhere in there is a couple of chapters for a book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And between all that and a lull in Hyper-V news, not much blogging was done.&#160; I\u2019ve just had my last scheduled meeting of 2011 and things are quieting down as we head towards the Christmas break.&#160; I\u2019m trying to do a bit of catch up tonight.&#160; I\u2019ve got lab gear on the way for getting into the new stuff.&#160; We\u2019re told a Windows 8 beta is coming in\/around the end of Feb.&#160; And that\u2019ll mean there\u2019ll be lots more to talk about.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:393dfb9b-17ab-4064-9e6e-ec1f91b35682\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve said more than enough about the VMware licensing fiasco from the Summer.&#160; It turns out, that interest in Hyper-V (and System Center) by partners and customers is higher than ever.&#160; And that\u2019s made me busier than ever.&#160; In the past 6 or so weeks I\u2019ve done: 4 corners tour of Ireland road show Countless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Hyper-V Marketing Ever \u2026 By VMware \u2026 Makes Me Busier Than I\u2019ve Been In Years&#8221;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,195,103],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}