eek! To all my non-developer friends in IT and to those hybrids, I just discovered that a new site on Microsoft.com just went live – Thrive!
Designed to foster technical competency, business/IT alignment and career advancement, it is definitely worth checking out.
P.S. If you click around, you’ll find a good whitepaper on Virtualization and the Microsoft approach (dated August 2008). It’s by David Chappell, so it comes highly recommended from me :) Table of contents…
UNDERSTANDING VIRTUALIZATION VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES Hardware Virtualization Presentation Virtualization Application Virtualization Other Virtualization Technologies MANAGING A VIRTUALIZED WORLD MICROSOFT VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES HARDWARE VIRTUALIZATION Hyper-V Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Virtual PC 2007 Looking Ahead: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) PRESENTATION VIRTUALIZATION: WINDOWS TERMINAL SERVICES APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION: MICROSOFT APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION (APP-V) MANAGING A VIRTUALIZED WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM CENTER OPERATIONS MANAGER 2007 SYSTEM CENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 2007 R2 SYSTEM CENTER VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGER 2008