Bob Muglia, president, Server and Tools Business, took the stage on day two of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference today, introducing some important new features in Microsoft products.
Mugklia said that the company was “building solutions to allow companies of all sizes to utilise virtualisation.” He spoke about the management tool System Center and talked and how it can be used to manage hybrid environments.
“One of the differentiators is that it is a complete suite that lets you manage the physical hardware, the virtual environment and the applications,” he said. Muglia said that this was something that certain competitor offerings could not do, and mentioned VMware specifically.
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He went on to demonstrate a new feature in Virtual Machine Manager, live migration. This is an equibvalent to the VMware VMotion feature that allows virtual machines (VM) to be migrated from one physical machine to another without any loss of service. The live demo showed a streaming video running without any obvious interruption as its host VM was moved from one server to another. Unlike the previous day’s demonstration by Stephen Elop, there were no errors messages.
Muglia said that it “provides the key features that most customers need”, adding, that Microsoft was “doing that for a fraction of the cost that VMware charges.”
Muglia said that the Microsoft’s focus was not just on infrastructure for the cloud, but also applications and that it would provide the tools to build the private cloud, as well as enabling public cloud infrastructure.
He said that Microsoft is completely committed providing technology to enable cloud development and to provide such to its partners to enable them to build public clouds.
Muglia announced the Dynamic Data Centre Alliance which would leverage a toolkit for those partners to create public clouds.
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