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The 2008 Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC) was hosted in Houston, TX on July7-10, 2008, with global participation. The WPC provides an online and in-person forum to learn more about business growth opportunities and product innovation from Microsoft executives.

This year the ECMF team participated at the event and provide a showcase that incorporated the manageability of Intel vPro in a real world scenario that utilized application virtualization and steaming. For the showcase the team used SCCM SP1 R2 beta as an enterprise management console with Microsoft's App-V (Soft grid 4.5 beta) to stream and manage applications to the vPro clients.

This provides the ability to:

  • Dynamically deliver application on the world's most manageable clients
  • Enable greater business agility with an enhanced end-user experience
  • Achieve IT "Green Computing" and reduced TCO objectives via fine-grained update controls.

After the event, I sat down with Craig Pierce to record the demonstration. I think it is a very compelling 4 minutes of video. In the demo he shows both the server console and the client experience, and launches 2 versions of Microsoft Word (2007 & 2003), which share drivers and normally wouldn't be able to run on the same machine. This concept can be extended to many other applications.


Application Virtualization and streaming allows you to no longer go through the entire install process, but simply stream and execute the applications you need when you need them - and the licenses for these applications can then be reclaimed when your not using them. This should become a defacto standard over time, as it works well in all compute models (from the rich client models to thin clients).

Questions? Comments? Funny remarks?

-Jason A. Davidson
p.s. Thank you to Chris Kaneshiro, Sophia Stalliviere, Nicole Trent, and Gunitika Dandona for your help in filming & editing this video.

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A recent trip I took, I had the opportunity to visit the St. Agnes academy in Houston Texas. They have been using a product by Symantec called SVS Pro to deliver a online portal to the students which integrates into the classes and seemlessly offers the books and applications needed for the students to learn in a whole new way! I was able to get the perspective of sevearl students, a math teacher (whom I hear is one of the students favorites), as well as a great technical talk from Jason Hymes the director of Technology.

Here is the video it runs approximatly 5 minutes.


The url for the school is: http://www.st-agnes.org/ (if you have kids and live in that area, it looks like a great place to send your children).

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Today Mike Ferron-Jones and I participated on the vPro Radio show. We covered the spectrum of emerging compute models and recommendations for when to consider each model. See this ppt for additional info: Slide Deck and click play below to hear our radio show from this afternoon!


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While in Atlanta, I was able to get a few minutes with Brian Duckering from AppStream to have him show us his latest.

Here is the video. (I also learned that I need to do lighting different in this video...novice mistake on my part about having the window in the background - beyond the window is the Atlanta Braves stadium, which would have been a nice backdrop). :)

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Recently, Mike Ferron-Jones did an interview with Scott Smith from Intel's feed room. Mike did a great job at explaining the views he expressed in his blog.

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On February 12, I was at a Intel team event in Hillsboro, Oregon. I was able to snag a few minutes with Ketan Sampat, Marianne Jackson, and Arjun Batra to do video interviews about the Intel streamed computing initiative.

Here is my video interview with Ketan Sampat. He gives an overview of the recent events in the industry that have been contributing to Intel forming the streamed computing initiative, and in turn form the Emerging Compute Model Forum community. It runs just over 1 minute.

Next, I was able get Arjun Batra behind the camera to invite you to attend one of our upcoming application & desktop virtualization forums. Follow this link if you would like to register for one of these events. It runs around 3 minutes.

Also, I was able to sit down with Marianne Jackson, who talked about some of the various events, activities, and products that Intel has planned for 2008. It runs around a minute and a half.

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