VolkerW's WebLog

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its latest version of the HPC platform Windows HPC Server 2008. This is the second version of the product. It ships with with some significant enhancements over the previous version. Web services integration...

On Windows. Yesterday Adobe announced that the latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 will come with full 64-bit support to your Windows Vista or XP. The suite is expected to ship next month. I’m a PC or what?

The Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 is coming. It will be the first PDC in 3 years. Experience the future of the Microsoft platform! Dates and Location WHEN: October 27-30, 2008 Pre-cons October 26, 2008 WHERE: Los Angeles Convention...

Well, almost. It might have gotten lost in the buzz around the official launch of our V2 product on Monday but you can download a free trial (180 day license of the full product) from Microsoft.

Colleagues over at SAP have done an awesome job and provide a lot of information and guidance on how to take advantage of Virtualizing SAP on Windows with Hyper-V. You find details about SAP on Hyper-V on the SAP on Microsoft Windows webpage. Excellent...

A Solver Foundation program is a declarative model embedded in familiar NETfx design patterns and development environments (Visual Studio 2008). The model is embeddable in any supported Solver Foundation context, from Excel 2007 to C#, F#, or any other...

Starting on October 6th the Microsoft Connector bus service will expand its number of lines. In the days of crude oil prices of $120 per barrel and more it is time to think about alternative ways of getting to work. While telecommuting is certainly a...

After the Virtualization launch earlier this week, Adam was working hard to get us some more detailed videos about Hyper-V up on TechNet Edge : Demo - Hyper-V Server and Live Migration and First Look: Hyper-V Server are now up on the IT Pro portal. Find...

Oh my. I've been back from vacation for over a week now and still haven't gotten through all my emails. Even worse, my fresh started "Favorite Posts" blog post series got delayed, too. Now off to a fresh start with a list of favorite posts from...

What’s going on with me. First no favorites in 3 weeks and now one day late for last weeks favorites. Sorry. I promise to become better. Here’s my favorite posts from last week: What Her Eyes Tell Her About Your Business . A post on Wonderbranding: “With...

As part of the IBM Deep Computing initiative you can now test drive Windows HPC Server 2008 without download/install and all of that. IBM® Computing on Demand For only $99 you can test drive a “scalable 14-16 node environment” via the IBM website . Make...

Is the slogan for the Microsoft PDC 2008. I’ll be there and I don’t need any special reason. The shear amount of topics and the relevance for my partners’ businesses is enough. How about you? Do you need another reason to ask your boss for a week in LA...

What? EBS = Essential Business Server RTM = Release to Manufacturing Today EBS has hit RTM, the final milestone before GA (General Availability). Timely the TechNet Edge team has posted a video that is about EBS and all about migration to the midsize...

No way you think? Think again. Microsoft and Cray have joined forces to create an offer the HPC market cannot resist! The Cray CX1 . High productivity computing for the masses. Go to the CX1 website , configure and buy online . That's what I call democratizing...