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IT Forum: Keynote

Bob Kelly brought us the IT Forum keynote this year, called "The Next Wave: Bringing Dynamic IT To Life". He talked about how Microsoft looks at Dynamic IT and the four core innovation areas; Unified & Virtualized, Process-Led / Model-Driven, Service-Enabled and User-Focused.

He noted that on February 27th 2008, Microsoft will do a joint launch wave; Windows Server 2008, SQL 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. More than 50 million people will be reach with over 300 launch events worldwide. Visual Studio 2008 will be released before this year's end, Windows Server 2008 will RTM in Q1 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 will RTM in H1 2008.

Bob spoke about the upcoming Windows Server 2008 and talked about the True Hypervisor, Terminal Services Remote App, IIS7, NAP, Read-only DC, Powershell and Server Core.

Microsoft announced Microsoft Hyper-V Server and that Viridian will be called Hyper-V. Windows Server 2008 will have 8 different SKU's including the Hyper-V functionality. Bob called Ward Ralston to stage to deliver a Hyper-V demo.

Ward showed a Woodgrove demo application that was running in PHP natively on IIS 7. With IIS 7 he could use a shared configuration to setup the IIS 7 settings for that PHP application. He talked about the new Failover Clustering; using the new console to add an extra node without any difficult configuration. A great innovation is the support for Geo-Clustering using Windows Server 2008 which can use disjointed subnets based on IPv4 or IPv6. He also showed that Microsoft removed any single point of failure dependancies for the Quorum. Ward demo'd the Remote Application technology and publication of these connections through a Sharepoint portal.

Bob went on about all the Windows products and announced that Windows codename "Centro" is now called Windows Essential Business Server. It will RTM in the last part of H2 of 2008.

The next slide was about Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy. It is centric around System Center for management, but has four key areas; Presentation Virtualization with Terminal Services, Server Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 & VS 2005 R2, Desktop Virtualization with Virtual PC and Application Virtualization with Softgrid.

Bob asked Bryon Surace to stage, a program manager on System Center virtualization. He demo'd thenew Hyper-V with the MMC3 Hyper-V manager. It supports up to 64 Gb RAM per VM with 4 core CPU and the ability to run Linux-based virtual machines. Bryon showed the new snapshot technology that lets you roll back or forward to states in time.

Bryon had an early build running of System Center Virtual Machine Manager, which was managing VS 2005, Hyper-V and ESX on stage! He showed the integration with Operations Manager 2007 and the virtual machines with their workload. Bryon also demo'd the Softgrid ability to stream applications.

Bob announced that Softgrid will be renamed to Microsoft Application Virtualization! The beta is currently available as version 4.5 and will be available during summer 2008. He also announced three new System Center products -- Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine Manager.

Bill Anderson came to stage, demonstrating the Datacenter Lifecycle. He showed Data Protection Manager and the ability to recover and protect data. He also showed the native integration between the Dell PowerEdge Server Configuration tool and Configuration Manager to configure a Dell-based server. This will be available next year. Bill also showed a new feature for the Task Sequencer; the ability to add roles based on Server Manager. Eg; deploy a Server 2008 Core and then add the AD role.

Francois Ajenstat was called to stage to talk about SQL 2008. He told that SQL now sells more units than Oracle and IBM together. The November CTP of SQL 2008 was announced and demo'd the policy-based administration. One nice detail was that SQL 2008 will add "Gauges" to SQL Reporting for visualizing data reports. The RTM product will also add IntelliSense for queries.

Bob then talked about Windows Home Server and called Steven VanRoekel to stage. He put the new Medion Home Server on the stage; very slick design. Medion is a launch partner, along with 13 other partners. It had even hot-swappable drives! He showed the interface, the ability to do bit-level backups fully automatic and a central file repository.

He ended the keynote by directing us to Technet Edge.

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