It's difficult to leave with a single takeaway
When attending TechEd, it’s difficult to leave with a single takeaway since Microsoft covers such a broad spectrum of products and strategies at the event. Here are a few highlights that rose to the top:
- Moving to the cloud is going to require a shift from administrating to managing IT environments. This is going to take some changes in technology, but will mostly be driven by organizational change and alignment across the various IT disciplines.
- Very interesting to see NetApp announce joining the Microsoft Fast Track program partnered up with Cisco UCS. I’ll have more on this shortly.
- MSFT believes most applications will run in public and private cloud–I would tend to agree. The questions remain: when and which apps?
- It’s becoming pretty clear that the next wave of tech industry powerhouses will be created based on success in the application design and development community.
- Hyper-V being “good enough” is rapidly transforming into Microsoft server virtualization strategies that include System Center. While Microsoft may have been late to the dance here, plenty of opportunity lies ahead.
These are interesting times. Microsoft has more pressure than it has ever had from the likes of Google, Oracle, and VMware, but it continues to focus on the current needs of the IT pro–this is proving successful. The success of application consumption models and modernization initiatives inside businesses will be key metrics to watch as technology giants place their bets and execute against current and long term market trends.
