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Mike Neil, Microsoft's general manager of virtualization, is on the big stage with a hot technology. The lights are on him as he prepares for next year's delivery of Windows Server Virtualization, which first was a feature and now is an add-on to Windows Server 2008. Neil, who joined Microsoft four years ago as part of the Connectix acquisition, recently talked with Network World Senior Editor John Fontana about critics, competition, licensing and feature delays.
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The prevailing belief among observers is that Microsoft is way behind VMware. What do you say to the WSV-bashers?
At a high level, I disagree. Server virtualization is still a developing market and technology. Since, to a great degree, the utilization of virtualization has been in relatively confined areas, typically in large enterprises or infrastructure products like [VMware's] ESX Server, Microsoft will be able to have a much broader approach and make virtualization available to a wider swath of the industry.
Are you on track for a mid-2008 release of WSV? A lot of people are casting doubts after your spring roadmap adjustments.
We made the adjustments -- the deferral of some of the features -- so we could maintain our schedule and provide the technology with high quality on the timeline that we articulated: Windows Server 2008 plus 180 days. [The server is set to ship Feb. 27, 2008.]
Will the delayed WSV features be delivered in some fashion before the next release, which could be as many as four years away, given the server operating-system release cycle?
Windows Server Virtualization is coming out off the [server] cycle, and while we do plan to follow up with the deferred features in subsequent releases of the [operating system], we have not talked about specific timing. We are hoping to sync up with the cycle.
Sync with the Windows Server R2 release, slated for late 2009, or the next major server release, in 2011?
Our goal is to follow up with those features as quickly as possible.
SMB will be running VMware as soon as the anouncement at VMworldBy jamdev on August 24, 2007, 10:29 amIf SMBs lacked the money to purchase ESX in the past well that is about to change as insiders are saying that ESX without the DRS, VMotion and HA feature will be...
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I agree. We've been usingBy Anonymous on August 22, 2007, 10:18 pmI agree. We've been using VMotion since it came out. It's incredibly easy to setup and use. Microsoft is blowing smoke if they think VMotion is just a "sexy" feature....
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Yes, but Microsoft has a point about the marketBy Micronet on August 21, 2007, 12:59 pmSee Microsoft Subnet for more Microsoft-related news, blogs, security alerts, technical group. True. Microsoft can claim they are not chasing VMware (and VMotion...
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Vmotion\Live MigrationBy Anonymous on August 21, 2007, 11:38 amTo suggest Vmotion technology is not being utilized is a simple deflection tactic attempting to downplay a critical and important feature that Microsoft has pushed...
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RE: Q&A: Microsoft's virtualization chief assesses the competition, licensing and securityBy Microsoft Subnet on August 20, 2007, 3:28 pmIn this revealing Q&A with Microsoft’s virtualization chief, Mike Neil, Neil adamantly deflects critics’ punches at the company’s virtualization timeline. “Virtualization...
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