Gordon Haff: I'm just wrapping up at the Microsoft STB (Server and Tools Business) Analyst Summit at TechEd down in hot and stormy Orlando this week. It was a generally good event--always good to get an overall strategy pulse and spend a fair bit of time chatting one-on-one--if a bit redundant with the other two Microsoft events I've attended in the recent past, the Microsoft Management Summit and MIX08.
Unsurprisingly, one of the areas Microsoft hit on hard at this event was virtualization--especially its upcoming Hyper-V hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. However, also on display were its various other virtualization flavors, including the application virtualization that came from its Softricity acquisition. (I'll be delving into Microsoft's virtualization strategy in depth in an upcoming report, complementing recent reports on the corresponding strategies at Citrix and VMware.)
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