Dan Stolts, MCT, MCITP, MCSE, TS... Sr. IT Pro Evangelist - Microsoft President – Bay State Technology Community Volunteer - Many Paul Thurrott Technology Analyst - Penton Media Editor - SuperSite for Windows

Disclaimer  This presentation and the content presented by speakers is the presenters opinion.  It is NOT the opinion of their employers.  It is not based on futures discussions with any particular vendors.  It is NOT Guaranteed Crystal Ball Stuff!

Overview – Full Agenda!  Past and Future Decade  Server Virtualization  Storage Virtualization  Presentation Virtualization  Application Virtualization  Desktop Virtualization  IP Infrastructure  Cloud Computing  Management-Virtual and Physical Combined  Security  Innovation

The Last Decade Windows 2000 (2/2000) Terminal Services & Remote Desktop Go Mainstream MSFT Virtual Server (9/2004) Atom Processor Netbooks (2008) VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (2009) Intel Core 2 Processors QUAD Core (7/2006) Intel Leaks x64 (2/2004 Toyota Hybrid Car Virtual PC (8/2003) Bluetooth (2002) 3G Mobile Network (9/2004) YouTube (2005) Application Virtualization (2006) MSFT Hyper-V (9/2004) MSFT SCVMM Virtualization Management Twitter 2006 MSFT Windows 2008 R2 (10/2009) AMD AMD64 (4/2003) VMWare ESX Server

The Next Decade  The Role of IT Changes…Specialization!  Data Explosion Continues!  Information when and where you want it  Speech, Gestures, Handwriting  Advertisements Everywhere!  Virtualization extends to the consumer  Fast Internet will become an Ultra-Fast Network  Wireless Everywhere… Free Public Network  Mobile devices grow up!  Security – Cat and Mouse Game Continues Hackers Win.  New Technologies will be created that we cannot even dream of today!

With Less, Do More

Server Virtualization  Mainstream for all (small, med, large)  Mega Data Centers  Online Services Will Dominate  Complexity Get Worse  Hardware Capabilities Grow  More Players In The Space  Leaders Change… Competition breads Innovation  Moving Up or Down The Stack?  Management: A Whole New World! (more later)

Storage  Major Investments in Technical Advances?  Complex Today, Simple Tomorrow  Tiering of data to manage cost  Where is the data? It could be anywhere!  Organize and “Easily” Manage Centrally  Who Owns it?  Storage as Dynamic as Servers are today  Massive “Dead” Data (in the cloud)  High Definition Media / Large Data

Desktop Virtualization  Terminal Services / Presentation Virtualization  … Will change thinking  Bring the OS to the client or Take the Client to the OS? BOTH?  Prices fall, functionality skyrockets  The very Old is New AGAIN  Mainframe->Client Server->Terminal Server-> VDI  Maturity will come fast  Adoption… Maybe not so fast  VDI as a “secure” solution (Instead of VPN)  Hardware Performance Improvements Continue to explode  Management changes the game

Application Virtualization  Applications continue to grow in complexity  Leading to more need for virtualization  Deployment GREATLY Simplified  Centralized Management familiar tools  As prolific as non virtualized applications  Virtualization of components (modules) are introduced

IP Infrastructure – IPv6 / Bandwidth  Internet Bandwidth  Wireless EVERYWHERE!  What is IPv6 and why it will survive  Mobile devices  Why Adoption has not happened  Consumers will want IPv6  Small Businesses will want IPv6  Enterprises will want IPv6  Ok, so when?

Cloud Computing – OS/Data/Services In The Sky  Definition of Cloud computing will one day be understood – massive growth assured  So much more than just a server in the Cloud… It is the future of virtualization  Massive $$$$ investment  Online services will dominate the IT World  Paying for what you use, not what you THINK you will eventually need  Who owns the data?  Federal and International Data Laws  Availability, Archival, Recoverability  Service Agreements  What happens to you and I when companies move to the cloud?  Automation!!!!, Specialization!!!!  Outsourced to the Cloud Provider  Small Business Consultants and IT people are most at risk short term  Cloud vs On Premise  Line will get grey as applications seamlessly work on either/both platforms (Long Term)  Eventually, you will not be able to tell the difference  The Term “Server” and “Cloud” will be synonymous

Management  Automation becomes the holy grail of the virtualization platform.  Management MUST encompass all areas of the infrastructure  Physical  Virtual  Online  … And All Disciplines  Server, Storage  Application, Presentation  Desktop, Cloud  Etc.  Microsoft with System Center Virtual Machine Manager has a HUGE head start so I would expect them to be at the very least a top contender. More likely they will be the clear leader.

What CEOs Are Saying: Virtualization Leads Source: Barclays Capital CIO Survey, May 2009

Security  Segment Physical from Virtual  Different Nics, Different Vlan’s,  Different Disk, Etc  Outsourcing Security – Specialization may be the answer  Companies are not taking security seriously but they are making a HUGE MISTAKE.  Security will get more complex as the data moves and the connection paths increase… (remote, local, data center, cloud, federated)  Security concerns move in a big way to devices (phone, etc)  Centralized Security MAY move to the cloud for consumers (and business?)  Safety/recoverability of the data/machine is as important part of the security story  Federated Services (LiveID, etc)  Keys and passwords stored online for consumers

Innovation Will Continue  Virtualization will lead the way to new innovations  Chips will get smaller, faster, cheaper  Innovations will come in all areas  Disk Size and Speed  CPU / GPU / Memory  Software, Cloud  New Devices and Synthetic devices  Products and service  Will grow at a staggering pace  Things we have not even dreamed of  Pricing will evolve Virtualization is everywhere and it is not going away, learn It, embrace it, enjoy it and make or save money using it!

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