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Live From Microsoft Tech·Ed IT Professionals—Wednesday, June 11




June 11, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
ORLANDO — After a night of libations, rich food (think mini-cheeseburgers and double-fudge brownies) and jazz music, the conference seemed a little empty early this morning. Last night’s Tech·Ed Jam Sessions got attendees grooving at Universal CityWalk, where they were invited to grab an instrument and hit the stage… or just dance if they were a bit more bashful. Thankfully, it was well orchestrated and not nearly as hard on the ears as one might think.

Today, it was back to business (at least after 10 a.m.). There were more than 200 labs, sessions and classes to choose from—all catering to the diverse needs of the conference guests. Check out a few highlights from today:

Sessions of Note
“Infrastructure Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2008” covered areas of concern for IT managers using SQL Server 2008 for mission-critical environments. Because of the nature of these environments, attendees were concerned about performance, availability and recoverability issues. EMC’s Txomin Barturen led this session, which described EMC’s best practices for SQL Server infrastructure, including the need for new technology such as “Tier Zero” Flash-drive based high performance, storage-based replication for business continuity and Visual Provisioning for flexible deployments.

Microsoft IT has a dream—to be 25 percent virtualized and to deploy 80 percent of new server instances directly to virtual machines (VM) in mid-2008. According to Microsoft’s David Lef, host of a session called “TLC: How Microsoft IT Leverages Machine Virtualization,” the IT team is well on its way to making this dream a reality.

This session talked about how the team built a “virtual server utility” on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, running several thousand production VMs for internal clients. But they’re not stopping there: The team will further expand the use of virtualization and change the makeup of their data centers. How will they do this? With the help of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, said Lef.

Microsoft believes that the demand for 64-bit Windows servers will require all IT administrators to be aware of the complexities of 64-bit computing. When IT professionals make the move to deploy the 64-bit Windows OS to support applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, there are many challenges, including what will happen to 32-bit applications and how will 64-bit architecture be supported. Hewlett Packard’s Guido Grillenmeier explained, in a session called “Making the Move to 64-bit with Windows Server 2008,” the most important things to know about the different 64-bit Windows architectures and why IT folks should care about them.

New Releases
NetApp released a new line of network-attached storage units—the FAS3100 series—which the company said can serve files 40 percent faster. It also introduced its Storage Acceleration Appliance, which it said is the first caching appliance available from a major storage systems vendor. It can be used to accelerate performance at the data center where the central data repository is located, or to improve response time and enhance collaboration within remote offices.

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