<if you are reading this the week of 9th November then apologies up front, its published but is really a working draft>
Microsoft TechEd Europe 2009, Berlin 8-13th November, 2009
So this week I’m a TechEd & Berlin virgin, although I guess I’m not alone as there are over 7200 people from 104 countries attending this event! (ignore the later picture, it’s out of date before it was taken).
MD of German MS Business
www.citymosiac.de – Berlin Social Media project to mark 20yrs since collapse of the Berlin Wall
Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division
you can’t save your way to success, simply cost cutting not the answer
do more with less has become “with less, do more” – the new efficiency
UK govnt. Embracing cloud computing to increase efficiencies
Customer evidence from Statoil (Petter Wersland), NASDAQ OMX (Carl-Magnus Hallberg), Chester Zoo (Phil Morris)
Statoil – Exchange 2010 TAP, reduced storage by 60% but increased mailbox size 40-fold!
Identity & access & the cloud – complexities need to be addressed.
NASDAQ – latency issues due to disperse geography with low-long bandwidth, use of Win7 & Branch-cache. Emphasis on IT & technology alignment with business projects, close to the strategy of the business.
Chester Zoo – Virtualisation saved £11K in electricity alone, being a Zoo obvious green agenda alignment. Chester Zoo installed 50km of fibre optics, and have wireless cameras throughout the complex, inc. In cages – IT manager has been attacked by monkeys.. (literally!)
Windows 7 had over 7m beta users
Win7 was the biggest pre-order product on amazon.co.uk, dethroning Harry Potter “Windows 7 is King”” (oh dear!)
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Online Services
Exchange Online – adopters inc. GSK, Aeon, etc, often in conjunction with on premises Exchange
Exchange 2010 GA today, RTM launch
Julia White, Director, Exchange 2010 Product Team
Demoed a mailbox move whilst in use…. err? Is that new? Didn’t show the client at the end of the move process… was there a prompt?
Exchange 2010 mail tips that advise the user of issues before they click send, e.g. incorrect distribution groups, Out of Office, etc.
Speech to text and vice-versa
Outlook Web Access now, Outlook Web App
Unified Messaging improvements, also integrated into OWA
Transport rules that can apply actions to email types regardless of sender choices (or lack of – e.g. adding DRM to certain types of email)
DRM working across access types (mobile, browser… demo used FireFox)
Multi-mailbox search capabilities
Forester claim a complete ROI on Exchange 2010 deployment in 6 months!
Various ForeFront launches announced today
IT Infrastructure
Apparently (allegedly) 70% of the world’s servers are running Windows
– Windows Server 2008 R2 stats – 460,000 downloads thus far
Robert Whabe, Corporate VP, Microsoft Server & Tools Business
Evolution of the Datacenter – green IT, virtualisation moving to private then public cloud
BranchCache reduced MS Mexico sales office bandwidth by 90%
SCOM/OpsMgr Dashboard demo showing KPI & summarised
Jeff Wettlaufer, Technical PM, System Center
Bunch of redelivered stuff around SCVMM e.g. PRO, Live Migration, power mgmt, etc.
