Many of my readers will know that I am very wary of just following everyone else into the cloud. I’ve spoken a few times now both in public presentations and on this blog about how the cloud is something to be cautiously evaluated and considered before jumping into it. Here then is an upside that I’ve personally experienced with the cloud. This website SBSfaq.com … [Read more...]
TechEd 2010 Australia – Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory Allocation
The second session for today is the Hyper-V 2006 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory Allocation session by Ben Armstrong. This is actually really cool technology that will allow Hyper-V to allocate RAM dynamically to virtual machines as it’s needed. What this means to us is that we can configure a VM to use say 2GB of RAM, but it will only use that 2GB of RAM when it really needs … [Read more...]
Hyper-V Webinar recording available for free
In April, I did a Hyper-V Webinar with my fellow MVPs at ThirdTier. The recording from this event is now up and you can download it for free from the ThirdTier site here Check out the other recordings from previous webinars and also check out the ThirdTier blog for other cool tips n tricks … [Read more...]
Hyper-V for SMB Case Studies
During today’s webcast with ThirdTier, I used the example of a client scenario that we (Correct Solutions) used technology to solve real world business problems. The client was real, the scenario was real, and the solution was real. That is what makes it more exciting. It was not just some hypothetical solution, but something we deployed for this client (and … [Read more...]
Want to know more about Hyper-V in SMB?
In conjunction with Third Tier, I’m presenting a webinar next Friday morning (Sydney time that is) or Thursday afternoon USA time :-) The webinar is based on my own experiences spec’ing, quoting, selling and installing Hyper-V environments for our SMB clients. We’ll talk about the reasons Hyper-V is good and bad and walk through some of the specs I’ve used in real world … [Read more...]