anyweb Posted April 10, 2013 Report post Posted April 10, 2013 MMS 2013 is well underway in Las Vegas and those lucky enough to be there got to see the usual Keynote from Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson. There were plenty of buzzwords in the keynote from Brad, but before he spoke there were a few snippets from Microsoft customers explaining how IT is growing faster than ever before and how it's adapting to change in order to get closer to business. Live demos He kicked off the keynote by announcing the delays was due to no internet in that part of the building and therefore every demo would be live, I guess that would mean previous demo's in previous MMS events were done by streaming over the internet :-) Brad then went on to say that every organization will benefit from participating in and using the cloud. We are doing our very best work right now He talked about the great releases of the last year including Windows Intune, System Center 2012 SP1, Windows 8, Server 2012, and went on to say it's our best work right now, delivering work that is forward looking. Transformational Trends These transformation changes will be brought about by The Cloud OS. This cloud OS contains transformations to advance your business. Windows Server is the foundation of the cloud OS, Windows Azure is the Public cloud OS and Windows Server is the Private cloud OS. Microsoft operates over 200 unique cloud based services (like Skype, Outlook.com or Office365). He went on to explain how some big-name customers saved millions of dollars and reduced downtime by switching to HyperV and the cloud, speaking of HyperV and Enterprise scale he mentioned a 64 node cluster in HyperV supporting 8000 virtual machines which is twice what the other guys can offer. Next he went on to say that he solutions that we are delivering from Microsoft are Enterprise grade, Enterprise scale, and Enterprise ready today. The whole reason why we deploy these infrastructures (transforming the data center into a cloud solution) is to support Apps. MMS 2013 is only using 10% of the physical servers it had before in 2009 (574 or so) for the virtual machines that people use to do their labs on, this if due to utilizing the cloud infrastructure from Microsoft. Dominos Pizza (one of Microsoft's customers highlighted during the keynote) migrated to Hyperv from the other guys and saw a 99% reduction in help desk calls. If you are using multiple clouds what types of decisions should you be making. Microsoft has great assets in both the public cloud and the private cloud. Over 99% of SQL servers can be virtualized. SMB multichannel and SMB direct will get performance out of remote file storage. Enabling People Centric IT Most companies don't allow end users to bring their own devices, Brads advice is to embrace this trend that users bring their own devices. Happy users are more productive ! Use Windows Intune to enable these devices within your Organization. Users can be presented with a seemless experience to install apps from a common interface using Windows Intune with Configuration Manager. You can also define what type of devices they are allowed to use in order to access internal documents. cool stuff ! see the keynote for yourself here cheers niall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
