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

Evolution of the Cloud the MS+Nokia Deal

Third Ecosystem, Cloud Platforms and New Mobility Era in the workings
by DrSalonen on February 15, 2011

The market is sizzling with comments of the recent Microsoft/Nokia collaboration decisions. Some blog entries estimate that this marriage will be a problem for other OEM vendors using Windows Phone 7 while some blog entries estimate that this decision is very bad for Google. Only time will tell what this will lead to, but from a market research and analysis perspective, the decision what Nokia did is a game changer for the mobile industry. It is now a game of three, as I am not going to count RIM with is BlackBerry platform to be a real contestant going forward. Others agree like can be seen in InformationWeek article......



.....The more I think about this change, the more I see opportunities that entrepreneurs can take advantage of. One should not be naïve, but estimate each decision from a company perspective what is the best way to approach this new strategic relationship. I am convinced that in a few weeks once more information comes available you will see things happening that would not have happened without this Microsoft/Nokia collaboration. And what is most important, consumers will benefit of this move as the competition will increase and developers can focus on building applications and accumulate intellectual property on top of the platforms.


"Editor: Hopefully MS+Nokia will allow other hand held enpoints ( Andriod, Chrome, iOS and etc.) into their ecosystem. It would be a smart interim move similar to Ray Noorda famous coopetition strategy. -KP"


FULL STORY:

http://www.drsalonen.com/blog/?p=524&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=third-ecosystem-cloud-platforms-and-new-mobility-era-in-the-workings

Lync 2010 RTM features & Whatever happened to Web Access (CWA)

HOW IS LYNC 2010 USED - INTRO BY BILL GATES?






Bill Gates in video call talking up Lync 2010.


IMHOP Lync/Exchange will need to better support clients for Andriod / IOS 4.x devices and services like Twitter / Skype for it to really take off in the market place (See Office365).


LYNC 2010 CLIENT IN 3 MINUTES








Harold Wong IT Evangelist appears in this video.



LYNC 2010 WEB CLIENT RTM LIMITED



Solution blogged November 18, 2010 by Randy Wintle

As man of you know the Lync Web App client in the RTM release doesn't have a full web client (like OCS 2007 CWA). To get around this limitation you can get around this issue by deploying a R2 2007 CWA with a Lync 2010 Front End as outlined below by Randy Wintle.

There are going to be a few scenarios where you may need to deploy the R2 version of Communicator Web Access with Lync Server 2010. The core reason here, is that the RTM Version of Lync Server 2010 contains a feature on the front end called Lync Web App.

Eventually, Lync Web App will become a full featured web client, however, today it is only used for users to join online meetings from the web. There is no ability to access Lync Web App from a URL and sign-in, or use it as a instant messaging too. This is planned to be released SP1 of the product, that timeframe is unknown right now....



FULL SOLUTION:




http://ucmadeeasy.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/using-ocs-2007-r2-cwa-with-lync-server-2010/


CUSTOM LYNC 2010 APPS







Sample Microsoft Lync Server 2010 / Microsoft Exchange 2010 application for automatically assembling issue response crew.




LYNC 2010 POWERSHELL CHEAT SHEET



http://blog.insidelync.com/2011/02/microsoft-lync-powershell-cheat-sheet/