April, 2009

FREE Live Migration and Host Clustering in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

According to Zane Adam, senior director of virtualization and System Center, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 will continue to be free, and now will include live migration and host clustering capabilities…

Customers won’t need to pay thousands of dollars for alternate Virtualization platforms to get these features. With Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, customers have a solution for both planned and unplanned downtime and can use it for scenarios like server consolidation, branch server consolidation, high availability (HA), and VDI.

You can download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 beta here. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can be managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. You can download the beta here.

You can find more info on Microsoft’s virtualization products and solutions at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization.

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Official Release Candidate 1 Build: Microsoft Windows 7 RC1 - 7100.0.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700

Many websites and blogs are reporting the leak of Build 7100 which is the RC version of Windows 7…

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta Released

Microsoft released the beta of Microsoft Exchange 2010!
This software is intended for evaluation purposes only. You must accept the license terms before you are authorized to use this software. There is no product support for this trial software. You are welcome to participate in the forums to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice.

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EPIC Technology Day

Winnipeg ~ On April 21^st, 2009, local information technology company EPIC Information Solutions (EPIC) will unveil the latest version of its bi-annual conference, EPIC Technology Day, at the Victoria Inn on Wellington Avenue.

Click here to register!