8: 35 Right now, African-style drums and dancing. Audience not as enthusiastic about shaking their maracas as the girl on stage would like. Glad I'm sitting in the press room.
8:40 Bob Muglia takes the stage
No more time stamps during this post, too distracting
Discussion of how Microsoft software (Groove and SharePoint) helped out with Katrina relief efforts
Dynamic IT - Employing new solutions and technologies to boost the agility and speed of their IT Systems
Identity Lifecycle Management Beta 3 Demo - I haven't used it, but it looks pretty nice, automation of creating new users, setting up mailbox, add to groups, etc.
Web Services - Demo of SOA Interoperability with .NET 3.5
Virtualization is a transformational technology for IT. When properly deployed and managed, virtualization creates IT systems that are highly efficient and cost-effective
Hyper-V on schedule to release within 180 days of Windows Server 2008 RTM, Muglia says it benchmarks well against VMWare ESX and in some cases out performs it
Moving on to application virtualization and modeling, demo of Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, built on top of PowerShell. Moving a VM from one host to another really simple, took about 10 seconds, can also do VMotion moves of VMWare VMs
Moving on to application virtualization and SoftGrid. I've used SoftGrid, it's pretty sweet. Version 4.5 coming this summer.
Demo of Kidaro, which will be included in MDOP
Demo of Microsoft Online Services - Enterprise apps hosted by Microsoft like Exchange
Demo of SQL Server 2008 data compression and policy-based management
Keynote over - not bad, Muglia did a pretty good job keeping it going