tudy .ro – Tudor Damian
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
The 2010 MVP Summit experience
Feb 21st
I’ve just returned from this year’s MVP Summit, and it’s been quite an experience! Got the chance to talk with a few fellow MVPs, and most of all, got to spend a couple of amazing days with Ben, Mike and the rest of the Virtualization team in the Microsoft Campus over in Redmond (or the “NDA Campus”, as people ended up calling it on twitter, due to obvious reasons). We were among the few “privileged” MVPs that got a good load of “super duper secret special NDA” material. But all I can say right now (while still under NDA) is that really cool things are coming, and they’re well worth the wait! 
The Sheraton in Bellevue was also a very nice location to stay in, and Bellevue in itself is quite a treat. The flight to New Jersey wasn’t as pleasant as I would have expected though, but hey – you win some, you lose some, I guess.
I’ll be staying in the US for another 2 weeks or so, getting to go to New York, Miami and Las Vegas. Should be fun!
SCE 2010 RC is out
Jan 20th
Yesterday, David Mills, Senior Product Manager on System Center announced that the System Center Essentials 2010 Release Candidate is available. This is from the Nexus SC blog:
Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides a unified IT management solution that enables you to simply and efficiently perform complex management tasks across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware, software and IT services from a single console.
Essentials 2010 -
- Delivers single console monitoring and management with summary information, common tasks, alerts and reports, allowing you to quickly see and manage your IT environment.
- Provides rapid provisioning, importation, management and live migration of virtual servers.
- Simplifies complex management tasks like packaging and deploying software, and configuring Microsoft and third-party updates.
- Helps quickly solve problems using integrated alerting, expert knowledge and troubleshooting for servers, PCs and IT services running in your IT environment.
Microsoft launches Kodu
Jan 15th
If you’re into maths, design or programming, this new visual programming language called Kodu designed especially for creating games might be the thing for you. Even though it was originally released for Xbox-360 only, it’s now available on the PC as well. Here’s a list of features from the official Kodu website:
Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing your own new games.
- High-level language incorporates real-world primitives: collision, color, vision
- Runs on Xbox 360 and PC
- Interactive terrain editor
- Bridge and path builder
- Terrain editor – create worlds of arbitrary shape and size
- 20 different characters with different abilities
Windows 7 – academic launch
Nov 5th
After last week’s Microsoft Academic Program opening in UBB Cluj, this week is time for the official academic launch of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I’ll be the one talking a bit about the latter (Win 2008).
More details on the launch announcement page.
Free eBook: Deploying Windows 7
Oct 29th
A very useful free eBook is available on Microsoft Downloads: Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance
Overview:
Microsoft’s eBook Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine combine selected chapters written by industry experts Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team with select Windows 7 articles from TechNet Magazine. Sample topics include: Deployment Platform, Planning Deployment, Testing Application Compatability, and 8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations.
ATC – Green IT
Oct 19th
This Wednesday (October 21st, 2009), I’ll be in Bucharest, attending the Agora Technology Conferences – Green IT session, where I’ve been invited as a speaker. So, if you’re in the area, you’re free and you’re interested in the topic, you might consider attending.
LATER EDIT: Here’s the full presentation (I used a shorter version during the event itself):
LATER EDIT 2: Here’s some pictures and videos from the event.
Online webcast: Enterprise Virtualization
Oct 12th
On Wednesday (October 14th, 11:00am Romanian time), I’ll be holding I held an online webcast on Enterprise virtualization. I will be discussing I have discussed the main differences between the current virtualization platforms (Hyper-V R2, ESX(i)/vSphere, XenServer & Virtuozzo/OpenVZ), and I’ll be going I went a bit in depth on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and it’s newest features.
See you there!
UPDATE: Here’s the presentation:
RECORDING HERE (the recording should be available roughly 24 hours after the broadcast)
