MMS Press Announcements
If you are not at the MMS like Stefan and myself then you can check out all the press announcements at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/default.mspx.
Microsoft give the press the news but they are not allowed to publish until the keynote is finished but you can read the press announcement for the speech at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-29MMS08PR.mspx
Key points
- Public beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions (out of the box for HP-UX, Read Hat, Solaris and SUSE)
- Working with OpenPegasus - Pegasus is an open-source implementation of the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards.
- Beta of the updated System Center Operations Manager 2007 Connectors
- Public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly code-named “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”)
The rest of the press releases are customer stories.
So the good news is the beefing up of support for heterogeneous systems - both managing and connecting. VNext of SCVMM was already known. So nothing big to announce as these are all betas which I thought might be the case. It will now be interesting to see if the partners announce something big. I will be commentating on the implications of the announcements in future posts.
And the new funky look for the System Center web site (marketing - not technical) is now live
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