Microsoft's next move: A Virtual Datacenter

eWeek | at | by Mike

As Microsoft prepares for the April launch of Windows Server 2003, it is already hard at work on what it sees as the next big challenge: the virtual datacenter. Addressing a small group of attendees at Microsoft's Mountain View campus on Wednesday afternoon, Bill Veghte, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Windows Server group, committed to making the virtual datacenter an industry-wide initiative. For its part, Microsoft will provide a system definition model, resource virtualization and partitioning, operational automation, as well as management of APIs and solutions, he said.