Microsoft kicks off this years tech ed with 4 promises to the IT industry:
- Manage complexity, achieve agility
- Protect information, control access
- Advance the business with IT Solutions
- Amplify the impact of your people
These promises were all centered around the idea that empowering people in business creates success.
Filled with a lot of marketing on how companies can utilize MS products to create this business success, the presentations were generally brief and well done with a lot of lead-ins for the upoming sessions throughout the week.
Highlights of the keynotes were:
- This presentation highlighted new tools that will enable administrators/developers to catalog, define, dynamically update, and analyze all your virtual images. Very cool stuff, and something we definitely need to adopt at Inetium. Gone will be the days of pinging colleagues to find a good image with all the stuff you need.
- Not sure if this is something we'll find an immediate need for but will be good tool to put in your developer bag.
- Forefront - comprehensive line of security products
- Improved security with integration into all of MS's major product offerings joined with sophisticated management utilities. Infrastructure... this could be something to get excited about.
- Team Data Center (Not sure if this the actual name of the tool or product name)
- SQL Server refactoring, schema comparison tools, and unit testing (TSQL) fully integrated into a single IDE... very cool!
- Unified communication & collaboration
- And the best highlight of the night...
Good night, but definitely Microsoft centric.... even with all the partners in attendance at the conference, Microsoft is clear about their vision... if you want to succeed in business, Microsoft has EVERYTHING you need.
Posted
06-11-2006 9:38 PM
by
jvogt