Go here and register: https://partner.surface.com/en/Pages/default.aspx
If you are not a Microsoft partner yet then this is the place to go to:
http://partner.surface.com/EN/Pages/MicrosoftPartnerProgram.aspx
Great to read on the MS Datacenters blog that we are bringing the Dublin datacenter live tomorrow, July 1st.
http://blogs.technet.com/msdatacenters/archive/2009/06/29/microsoft-brings-two-more-mega-data-centers-online-in-july.aspx
The Dublin, Ireland, data center is our first mega data center built outside of the United States. This building covers 303,000 square feet, with 5.4 mega watts of critical power available now. Over time, the data center can expand to a total of 22.2 mega watts of critical power, growing with our business and customer demand. The facility makes extensive use of outside air economization to cool the facility year round, resulting in greater power efficiency with a resultant reduction in carbon footprint.
Let’s hope we will be able to set the geo location bit for Azure applications soon to keep the data in Europe. This might be interesting for legal reasons and for bandwidth/network speed related challenges.
Looks like there will be a lot of interesting content at the Worldwide Partner Conference.
For instance the session abstract about the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit reveals some interesting information such as the expected availability.
Since many of you ISV’s are also offering hosted solutions, I thought that especially the Toolkit for Hosters would be of interest to you.
If you want to start building your Private Cloud today, you can visit the website and get an early start: http://dynamicdatacentertoolkit.com/
Session details:
CI011 Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure Presenters: Hyder Ali, Radhesh Balakrishnan, Frank Zakrajsek Tue 7/14 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | 252-254 Get an overview of Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure strategy and how it can help customers lower costs while improving agility within their datacenters. We share the architecture and demo both the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosters (available now!) that enables hosting Partners to offer managed servers in a hosted environment, and the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Enterprises (available Q4 CY 2009) that enables building the foundation for a Private cloud. Session Type: Breakout Session Track: Core Infrastructure Competency Focus: Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Infrastructure Solutions, Security Level: Intermediate Partner Type: Hoster, Independent Software Vendor, Systems Integrator/Services, Value Added Reseller Product: Servers: Windows Server
CI011 Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Presenters: Hyder Ali, Radhesh Balakrishnan, Frank Zakrajsek
Tue 7/14 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | 252-254
Get an overview of Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure strategy and how it can help customers lower costs while improving agility within their datacenters. We share the architecture and demo both the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosters (available now!) that enables hosting Partners to offer managed servers in a hosted environment, and the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Enterprises (available Q4 CY 2009) that enables building the foundation for a Private cloud.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track: Core Infrastructure
Competency Focus: Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Infrastructure Solutions, Security
Level: Intermediate
Partner Type: Hoster, Independent Software Vendor, Systems Integrator/Services, Value Added Reseller
Product: Servers: Windows Server
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/23/check-out-the-new-windows-7-packaging.aspx
Very clean designs, I like that. I’m also really happy to see that the boxes are simplified.
First time I tried to open a Vista box, I had to go search the web. Embarrassing? Microsoft even created a special page for it. See first link… http://www.bing.com/search?q=opening+a+vista+box&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox
Gerd Debruycker is an event veteran at Microsoft. He has been driving many events succesfully amongst which Tech Ed and many others.
Finally Gerd started to blog. http://gerdde.wordpress.com/
He blogs about Virtual Conferences and about football marketing. He playes football with the best at the time.
Enjoy!
Hans
Recently, a new case study was released highlight the benefits that ADAM saw from implementing VSTS.
Dutch: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/cases/?case=adam French: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/cases/?case=adam
Dutch: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/cases/?case=adam
French: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/cases/?case=adam
Adam is a software house active in the sector of Digital Asset Management. They engaged with Compuware to introduce Visual Studio Team System to their developer team and implement VSTS as a the toolset that supports their Application Lifecycle.
As expected they are seeing a lot of benefits from it. They automated a lot of tasks which would otherwise be executed manually – like the build process – and find it much easier now to switch between projects. Read the cases study to find out about the other advantages they are seeing.
(In the picture on the left Pieter Gheysens and on the right Michael Vanhoutte).
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/microsoft-offers-windows-7-compatibility-tech-support-free.ars
Windows 7 RTM: 2nd half of July
Windows 2008 R2 RTM: same timeframe
Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program: soon
Windows 7 General Availability: October 22nd.
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx