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Last updated: February 9, 2009
Executive Bios- Bill Hilf, General Manager, Windows Server Marketing and Platform Strategy (.doc file, 54 KB)
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Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business Microsoft Business Division
- Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer
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Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center Marketing, Microsoft
(.doc file, 46 KB)
- Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management, Microsoft (.doc file, 222 KB)
- Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President, Infrastructure Server Marketing
- Mike Neil, General Manager of Virtualization Strategy, Windows Server Division Zane Adam, Senior Director of Virtualization Strategy, Windows Enterprise Management Division (.doc file, 27 KB)
- David Greschler, Director of Integrated Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft Corporation (.doc file, 24 KB)
- Scott Woodgate, Director, Windows Enterprise & Virtualization Strategy (.doc file, 34 KB)
Analyst reports-
Microsoft Gains Ground With System Center Configuration Manager 2007
(Gartner, July 10, 2008) Gartner has evaluated Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
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Virtualization Price War: VMware’s Little Big Horn?
(Yankee Group, July 2008, .pdf file, 1.8 mb) This report discusses the emergence of vendors (specifically Microsoft, Citrix and Oracle) competing with VMware on price. Microsoft is portrayed as working to close the gap on VMware’s performance & functionality edge.
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Six Reasons Why Microsoft’s Hyper-V Will Overtake VMware
(Clabby Analytics, May 2008, .pdf file, 464 kb) Analyst Joe Clabby defines the server virtualization technology and presents a six-point argument for why Microsoft can overtake VMware in this space within the next five years. Specifically, Joe asserts that Microsoft has an advantage with price, packaging, depth, reach, control/integration and install base.
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Microsoft Announces System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
(Enterprise Management Associates, May 2008, .pdf file, 204 kb) This report provides a favorable overview of the details of Microsoft’s announcements relative to cross platform management of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, as well as heterogeneous support in System Center Operations Manager.
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Microsoft Management & Virtualisation Strategy Continues to Mature
(IDC, May 2008, .pdf file, 94 kb) This report reviews Microsoft’s cross-platform server virtualization management announcements made at Microsoft Management Summit and focuses on their impact on the Australian and New Zealand marketplaces.
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Microsoft Plans to Manage Next Generation Data Centers
(Enterprise Strategy Group, May 2008, .pdf file, 124 kb) ESG analysts Mark Bowker and Mary Turner predict that Microsoft’s move toward heterogeneous management, combined with its long-term vision for the next-generation data center, will create “fireworks” in the management vendor market over the next few years.
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