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I recently had a chance to look into a Start-Up in Austin, Tx called Virtual Bridges. Their primary focus is a "purpose built" VDI system called Verde. I found this an interesting prospect and product as most of the VDI offerings out there by the major players have taken their server virtualization projects and tweaked them to serve as a VDI solution. Because of that the end result is a complex infrastructure that requires several components and sometime third party products to build a robust VDI Infrastructure.

This is where the Verde product differentiates itself.

Via Technet Blog...

Attend this webcast to learn how to set up the foundation for a private cloud in your enterprise with the help of Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC) scenarios such as:

• Enabling independent hardware vendor and system integrator partners to extend the toolkit's powerful extensible features.


• Simplifying IT scenario of end-to-end business unit IT (BUIT) on-boarding.


• Simplifying IT scenario of infrastructure request/allocation processes.


• Enabling end-user self-service portal for virtual machine provisioning.

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Register Here

The event will take place on Friday, February 12, 2010. It is a live event being simulcast to multiple locations. It will also be recorded and made available online a few days after the event. You do have to register to attend and to download the event.

All the details and registration are outlined on the registration page(s). There are multiple Live locations so watch the links for tickets to the the location you want to attend.

Though this is a community event and run completely by volunteers, they sure are doing things right. From the great speaker and topic lineup to the online element and simulcast they have thought of everything. Of course as you would expect at any community event, they will have plenty of stuff to give out to the attendees.  They are serving lunch and will likely have snacks as well.  Then at the end of the day, they have a bunch of stuff to be handed out for drawing prizes.

Check out the prizes so far… They will have a Windows Server 2008 R2 with 5 Client Access Licenses, Windows 7 Ultimate, Office 2007 Standard, Xbox 360 Game Console, Zune Docking Station, some Xbox games and accessories, many, many books, T-shirts, hats, backpacks, and lots more to come.  Not all locations will have all prizes but rest assured, there will be plenty of giveaways at the LIVE events!

Go HERE for more details and registration information! 

Through out the virtualization era that we are in the heart of as I write this, the supporting technology has grown at an amazing pace. When hypervisors first started to get a foothold in the data center not much was expected to change. It was a great way to consolidate systems that were wasting otherwise good hardware resource in a very inefficient manner. Sure there was planning, but only to the level of what should go on the host, not so much as an infrastructure.

The technology grew and the possibilities of managing the virtual work load became possible, so did the possibilities. However for a large part these gains were wasted and although it gave many IT decision makers reason to move the hypervisor from the test/dev into production they were generally not used to their full potential. Work load management in the hypervisor has come so far and has capabilities that allow it to tie into the whole infrastructure not just the silo that, if not planned, virtualization becomes.