Since late April when I talked about what I saw at the MMS conference and what's been in the pipeline with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, I was working in the background with my company (NJVC) and Microsoft on their 2012 Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) on the IP Address Management (IPAM) service offering that will be natively offered in Server 2012. Additionally, I have attended EMCWorld 2012, Microsoft TechEd, and VMworld 2012. The commonality of these three conferences has been primarily focused on the following areas, big data, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing. Don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of topics covering Virtualization and infrastructure modernization and data center centric services.
Focusing on Big Data, EMC (among other storage centric companies) are looking at how big data requirements can be met using their product offering. This means looking at functions like MapReduce and Hadoop as well as deduplication technologies to help try and get these different types of expanding data sources stored on these platforms as effectively and efficiently as possible. This drives down costs by reducing your storage footprint while still being able to accommodate these larger data requirements.
A couple of links on the topics can be found here
MapReduce - http://www.business2community.com/strategy/what-is-mapreduce-0264794
Hadoop - http://hadoop.apache.org/
EMC Big Data - http://www.emc.com/microsites/bigdata/index.htm
Moving on to desktop virtualization, both VMware and Microsoft are running neck and neck trying to obtain a market share from Citrix which arguably leads the market in this particular service offering.
VMware View 5.1 will be released in the relative future and the capabilities to include persona management of physical desktops, operations management capabilities, as well as support for new devices and languages. Microsoft's RemoteFX in Server 2012 has been the talk of the town regarding 3D rendering and graphics capabilities offered to desktop sessions without the need of high end dedicated graphics processing units (GPU's).
More information on RemoteFX and VMware View 5.1 can be found here.
RemoteFX - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817578(v=ws.10).aspx
VMware View 5.1 - http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2012/05/vmware-announces-general-availability-of-view-51.html
Regarding cloud computing, it seems that every company and their brother is going to have a public/private cloud offering (including NJVC). At VMworld 2012, VMware, Savvis, Terremark, CSC, AT&T, and many more were showcasing their offerings. VMware took the most interest because it showcased the utilization of the vSphere infrastructure stack in addition to vCenter Operations manager, and vCloud Director's suite of products allowing VMware to effectively showcase both private and public cloud designs and offerings based on best practices and use cases of many reputable organizations to include VMware, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Energy. This interests me highly as we support a similar customer base and we would more than likely design a similar offering to our customer based on comparable government requirements.
In addition to all this, VMworld had a great lab environment showcasing vSphere 5.1 and View 5.1 products and features as well as speaker sessions that highlighted cloud services, data center services, enterprise application virtualization designs and best practices, as well as desktop virtualization and a myriad of hardware and software products.
Lastly, I'm going to be studying for my VCAP-DCA5 exam again. Hopefully, I do better this go around compared to last time. Also, I'll do a better job at posting updates... Four months is way too long to go between updates... :P
Thanks for reading.
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