Microsoft have today shown us Windows 8 and it’s new Metro interface, what will this mean for applications, virtualisation and Enterprise IT.
Tag archives: Virtualisation
Disk2VHD: Convert a live disk into a VHD
Disk2VHD from Microsoft Sysinternals lets you create a virtual hard disk (VHD) from an online disk which can then be used to ‘boot from VHD’ in Windows 7
Virtualisation eLearning
With all the recent virtualisation launches from MS (App-V 4.5 and Hyper-V Server 2008) I’ve been doing a bit more reading on the subject over the last few days. I’ve always used various flavours of VMWare in the past so I thought I’d better catch up with whats going on on the MS side of […]
Microsoft Midori Speculation
There’s been quite a lot of talk over the past few days about an project MS is running called Midori that may, or may not, be the makings of a new legacy free OS. The prospect of an entirely new OS is quite an exciting one, the world has moved a long way since the […]
File Virtualisation and the cloud
There’s a great post over on arstechnica asked for a home storage cloud that would seamlessly link together all his home storage. "So I’m ready for some cloud storage. But I don’t want all my gadgets to connect to some distant cloud. Rather, I want them to be the cloud, so that my data surrounds […]