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Holographic Storage

2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 10:21 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Windows Server, SQL Server, Systems Center, Windows Hardware, Embedded

The ROI of VDI

It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2008 12:37 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Acquisitions, Windows Server, Startup, Systems Center, Entrepreneur, Windows OS

Bring Your Own PC

Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization. One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs for corporate IT departments to deliver a virtual PC to. While...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 1:56 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: S+S, Systems Center, Windows OS, Windows Hardware

VMCasting

One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual appliances via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly , an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2008 1:37 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Security, Windows Mobile, Windows Server, Startup, Systems Center, Entrepreneur, Windows OS, Windows Live

18 Million Reasons

Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V . I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 1:55 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Acquisitions, Why Microsoft?, Windows Server, Systems Center, Entrepreneur, Windows OS

Green Power Management

I have always been skeptical of clean tech startups that rely entirely on their green credentials to stay in business. Government subsidies come and go - solar energy veterans will recall the carnage that resulted from the Reagan administration. And while...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2007 1:03 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Why Microsoft?, Systems Center

Data center power outages and down time

RackSpace , a web hosting data center based in Dallas had a major power outage yesterday. The outage affected GigaOm , Laughing Squid , 37 Signals , and many others. TechMeme , my favorite blog news aggregator, has lots of blogs following the story.  ...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2007 7:32 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Systems Center

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