Microsoft boots Savvis from data centers
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So UnGooglerific Think Microsoft trails Google in the "wow" department by a country mile? You're right.â¦
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New initiatives aim to help businesses create server clusters for high-performance computing tasks.
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Along with Vista and Office 2007 announcements, Microsoft recently gave analysts an update on Longhorn - its next generation of server software. As a part of this update, Microsoft announced plans to deliver an enhanced capability in its systems management products.
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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New ZebraHosts service lets data center admins deploy Apple machines in dedicated rack space.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft released its first software designed specifically to manage virtual machines on a network Thursday&#160;and tweaked licensing for its system-management products to take into account virtualization.
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Microsoft announced today that they were rolling out a new set of tools under the âMid-Market Netware Migration Programâ banner, aimed at convincing existing NetWare clients to move to Windows Server 2003 instead of Linux.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O and cable television provider Comcast Corp. CMCSA.O said on Monday that they would begin deploying set-top boxes powered by Microsoft software starting next week.
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(Source: Network Appliance)  Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved into a critical application for many companies. Legacy storage infrastructures based on traditional direct-attached storage (DAS) are insufficient for meeting service level requirements associated with data availability, recoverability, manageability, and scalability.  Leveraging an iSCSI-based storage network, Snapshot&trade; technology-based recovery mechanisms, and storage virtualization technologies provides an appropriate infrastructure for meeting the increasingly demanding requirements of Exchange - at a cost structure appropriate for Microsoft Windows&reg; environments.
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?
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Startup firm Fortisphere on Monday plans to launch a product suite aimed at managing virtualization &quot;sprawl.&quot;&quot;We spent nine months talking to [data center professionals],&quot; said John Suit, Fortisphere&#39;s CTO. &quot;What was apparent to us was that typically, how these guys are tracking their virtual machines is with an Excel spreadsheet.&quot;The company&#39;s offering, Virtual Essentials, is based on two products. The first is Fortisphere Virtual Insight, a toolset for tracking, tagging, and monitoring virtual machines as they move throughout their lifecycle, from preproduction to production.Users get a visual representation of a virtual machines&#39; parent, sibling and child relationships. There is also a reporting engine and an auditing function for recording changes and transactions. Fortisphere Virtual Foresight is the other half, dealing with policy enforcement.Policy rules are embedded within virtual machines, meaning the information will remain with each one, as well as any clones and copies, according to Fortisphere. There is also a repository component, and an analytic engine that monitors risk and compliance violations by crunching data from virtual machines and hypervisors.Fortisphere&#39;s product uses kernel-level drivers, rather than other means of interacting with virtual machines, such as agents. Fortisphere contends this approach affords a great deal of control, while remaining lightweight.The company is competing with a number of other startups, such as Embotics. Fortisphere said it has a number of beta customers, but company officials declined to name any or make one available for an interview.Pricing for Virtual Essentials starts at &quot;little bit over $10,000,&quot; including maintenance, according to Fortisphere executives, who declined to be more specific.The software was built with a mid-market customer in mind, in terms of its ease of use, according to Fortisphere.Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said one strength of Fortisphere is its ability to manage virtual machines across multiple hypervisors -- VMware, Citrix&#39;s XenServer and Microsoft&#39;s Hyper-V. &quot;This is a something end-users are asking for as they deploy more than one solution for server virtualization,&quot; he wrote in an e-mail message.Dan Kusnetzky, principal analyst with Kusnetzky Group, predicted that within five years, Fortisphere and its peers will either be absorbed into larger companies or those firms will develop software with similar capabilities.&quot;It&#39;s likely in my view that these people are going to be acquired by the management framework players, because they are doing something different but also complementary,&quot; he said.Kusnetzky noted, however, that Fortisphere&#39;s tools have a limited focus, aiming on the management and tracking of virtual machines and not other areas of virtualization, such as virtual storage. &quot;If you&#39;re working in the environment they&#39;re targeting, this might be interesting,&quot; he said.
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TechWeb - The upgrade helps manage virtualization technologies, SAN- and NAS-based storage resources, and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft is out to capture NetWare customers before they have a chance to migrate to Linux.
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SEATTLE/BOSTON  - Microsoft Corp  acquired  a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its  alliance with Citrix Systems , targeting VMware Inc's   early lead in virtualization technology.
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'Is that you, Serguei?' Microsoft continues to make nice with non-VMware entities in the server virtualization market. The software maker this week, for example, firmed up a support deal with SWsoft that will see its rival's customers gain access to Microsoft's own army of Windows Server experts.â¦
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SharePoint servers on virtual machines and to perform regular VSS snapshots, later backing them up offline
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Microsoft has made a minority investment in Linux management firm Vintela, sources say. Microsoft Watch, which broke the story, reports that the two companies are working together Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to add interoperability with Unix platforms. ADFS, code-named "TrustBridge," will arrive with Windows Server R2 in late 2005. Vintela is also developing a plug-in to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, which the company unveiled today at IT Forum 2004 in Copenhagen, Denmark.