http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/ SMB Virtualization Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:47:24 GMT Amy Babinchak http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/601 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/601 I hope so too. I can't help but think that without inexpensive bandwidth that Australia is in a for a bad time. The move to cloud based services through the Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:04:26 GMT Susan Bradley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/600 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/600 VMs 4 Learning : We Need Partners: Join The Lab Advisory Council!!: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:33:56 GMT Radek Tkaczyk || VMvault http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/599 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/599 I think the timeline for the project was 7 years.... I don't think it will get off the ground, it will be held up in the senate and not get anyway... But I Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:19:17 GMT David Benet http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/598 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/598 Not all agree with the approach of the government funding FTTH. But until all the details are known, hard to make a judgement David Benet Director - SMB Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:03:26 GMT Amy Babinchak http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/597 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/597 I hear that the Australian government is working to correct that. They will need to. Not having sufficient affordable bandwidth will serious hurt the Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:18:38 GMT Radek Tkaczyk || VMvault http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/596 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/596 Couldn't agree with you more Hilton.... Though I still like to use VMware ESXi in a single server (or single box) sites... but the lack of a full GUI on the Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:17:33 GMT David Benet http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/595 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/595 You mean we shouldn't be grateful that we have a couple of unsupported tools like hvremote and core configure to make Hyper-V usable in SMB? At least we have Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:08:54 GMT Henry Craven http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/594 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/594 That would be a "Wrong!". Having the "Cloud Services" provider provide the clustered redundancy and geo remote backup via their own high speed networks is a Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:40:44 GMT Jim Kehres http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/593 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/593 Hilton, Maybe we should all move to Australia to save our careers and avoid the "Coming of the Cloud!". Without affordable bandwidth or high traffic Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:37:33 GMT Quark Group - Hilton Travis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/592 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/592 G'day Henry, And unfortunately, in Australia, we don't have either affordable high bandwidth or affordable high traffic quantities. :( Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:14:59 GMT Henry Craven http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/591 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/591 I guess that the info on the website is too thin to really judge but seems to me something easily done with free tools already out there (hd-2-VHD, r-Sync) and Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:53:05 GMT Amy Babinchak http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/590 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/590 A couple of months ago I met fellow MVP Dan Griffin while I was in Redmond. Dan is an enterprise security MVP and former Microsoft employee. (a dev in server Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:28:07 GMT Ian Watkins http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/589 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/589 Darren, Thanks. I can't find a supplier in the UK that has a website that works - not a good start! Regards, Ian Watkins Oxbridge Technology Ltd Tel: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:52:40 GMT Quark Group - Hilton Travis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/588 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/588 G'day Ken, In the big end of town, Hyper-V isn't going to match VMware's knowledge of virtualization, let along their capabilities. Not yet, anyway. A couple Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:40:17 GMT Randall C. Spangler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/587 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/message/587 Dittos with the two comments. Maybe someone with a direct line to Eric Ligman could see what his take is on this. Susan? Or perhaps our new MVP, Sir Dave