Why the VCE exec believes quality will beat price in the cloud marketplace

File Michael Capellas under the category of Private/Public cloud converts.

.....That 100 per cent probability figure was one that Capellas touched on multiple times throughout his speech, where he called cloud “not a buzzword” but the culmination of seven to ten years of developments that are “impossible to reverse” at this point.

Just like IP networks led the way with price performance, the abundance of x86-based servers, particularly in blade server formats, have changed the way people think of scale when it comes to computing power, Capellas argued. The movement from scale up to scale out is complete, and today, x86 blade servers represent one in five x86-based systems built.

And unsurprisingly, given Capellas’ position across the Cisco/EMC/VMware joint venture, he predicted that “best of breed” will be the dominant model when it comes to building clouds, differentiated from both the larger public cloud plays of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, and the single vendor stacks Capellas said were offered by infrastructure rivals including HP, IBM and Oracle.

“You will see these stacks become more virtual, more vertical and we will deliver those stacks more and more with the ability to go turnkey on those stacks,” he said. “We intend to be the innovator and the pioneer.”

Capellas’ other cloud prognostications include:

Expect to see development cloud projects in the next six months, driving the same kind of momentum around business app that the mobile app stores have driven in the consumer space;

Cloud will drive the converged infrastructure market to $50 billion (U.S.) within three years;

Private cloud will lead, taking up to 80 per cent of the cloud market;

Virtual infrastructure will continue the “flight to quality;” with better quality beating out the cheapest components due to the mission critical nature of the cloud;

Cloud-based applications will drive productivity gains to the tune of 50 per cent or better; Applications built on and around the cloud will lead to a “fundamental shift in application development” unlike anything the market has seen in the last decade; and True cloud standards will emerge.

FULL STORY:
http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2011/03/capellas-to-partners-the-cloud-has-already-won-1346/

INSTALLATION OF MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF UCUPDATES.EXE

VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EiHnSKoJ1Y

By default an installation of Lync Server does not contain any pre-installed or pre-approved updates, this must be performed manually by an administrator. This is basically the same process as was used in Office Communications Server except that now there are multiple update packages, which on the surface appear to be identical.

Previously the only supported devices that used the Office Communicator Phone Edition client were the Microsoft reference-design “Tanjay” family of devices: the Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP8540. Both phones were identical and used the exact same software so a single installation package was distributed and updated on a regular basis.....

FULL STORY BY JEFF SCHERTZ:

http://blog.schertz.name/2011/01/updating-lync-phone-edition-devices/

The Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit Tools featured a nifty tool called LCSAddContacts.

This WSF script allows you to add contacts to LCS or OCS (but not Lync Server) using WMI. I was hoping to see a version of this tool for Lync Server, but no such luck -- So I wrote one myself.

I'm surprised to find that there is no PowerShell cmdlet that allows you to add contact groups or contacts, and since there are no WMI classes for Lync Server anymore"- Jeff Guillet




http://www.expta.com/2011/01/introducing-lyncaddcontacts.html