The Microsoft Management Summit conference is underway and the kickoff keynote is set to begin soon. Join us for a live blog of what Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of program management in Microsoft's Windows Server and System Center Group, has to say about the future of enterprise-related topics!
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Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
We lost all internet connectivity in the conference hall minutes before the keynote. Looks to be back up now.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Vijay Tewari showing a demo of how to span storage across the cloud as well as internally. Number of IOPs actually improved.... Huh?
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
For those interested - I believe they said Channel9 should be streaming soon.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Some of the highlights: Dominos pizza has 15000 VMs and only 2 admins... Using Hyper-V for virtualization and Systems Center 2012 for management.
Apr 8, 2013
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Other highlights: Hyper-V scales better than VMware - 32x larger virtual disk, twice as many VMs in a 64 node cluster
Apr 8, 2013
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Open Daylight - MS officially announced platinum sponsorship with that organization.
Apr 8, 2013
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Many organizations are using public clouds themselves without IT input - more reason to unify and give the customers what they need to do their job within the organization.
Apr 8, 2013
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Matt McSpirit, technical product manager, showing us a demo on application insight and monitoring
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Another interesting tidbit -- Sundance Institute had a SAN failure a week before the film festival started. Luckily they used StorSimple to backup to Azure and there were no blips at all for the festival!
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Pretty awesome example of testing user experience from anywhere in the world of how your app responds from around the globe. Included with System Center 2012.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
System Center 2012 can take in library of runbooks to increase automation -critical because, for example, Azure does 50,000 changes a DAY.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Some information on OpenDaylight Project: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...networking-corporate-style/
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Entire building lost Internet - not just the conference - before the Keynote started.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Used their Nokia Lumias to get internet for the demos until the hotel got the Internet back up and running. :)
Apr 8, 2013
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Building Clouds - Microsoft - has Powershell scripts to allow you to automate your builds.
Apr 8, 2013
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Windows intune is in produciton or trail by 35000 unique customers in the world.
Apr 8, 2013
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In the last year, there's been 1.2 billion smart cloud connected devices sold.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Access policies to applications, data, files, that first of all begin with the user, what is their identitiy in AD, and what rights should they have?
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Overlay that with access rights that control access based upon the device itself. (is it domain joined, for example)
Apr 8, 2013
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Finally, access policies and privs based on their network location - are they on the corporate network or not?
Apr 8, 2013
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People-Centric IT: Who is the user? What is the devivce? Where are they working?
Apr 8, 2013
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Microsoft stealing a page from Meraki? "Modern devices should be managed from the cloud." #MMS2013
Apr 8, 2013
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Microsoft has put AD into the cloud - "Windows Azure Active Directory"
Apr 8, 2013
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They're demoing the fact that you can publish applications and they can be installed via Intune instead of having to connect to your intranet.
Apr 8, 2013
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It gives a consitant experience across all devices - iOS, Android, Windows RT/Pro, etc.
Apr 8, 2013
Christopher White
Internet access went down at the hotel again, so we weren't able to end the live blog properly, sorry about that everyone. As one person said, "I bet Microsoft just got a discount on the conference!" :)
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