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See how at cisco.com/thelastcheckoutline Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors Untitled-2 1 4/10/15 11:37 AM RedmondThe Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community MAY 2015 RedmondView Contents by Jeffrey Schwartz COVER STORY Will the Microsoft Automate! Open Source The introduction of containers to Windows Server, Odyssey Extend Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure tied with Windows PowerShell automation paves the Microsoft path to to Windows? DevOps and support for cross-platform modern apps. very time Microsoft takes a new step toward embracing open source, the Page 8 Ecompany raises eyebrows. The reaction ranges from high praise to cackles of suspicion. Yet Microsoft’s first major step to embrace the Linux community dates back to 2007 when it partnered with Novell (now SUSE), and created its Interop- erability Council in 2010. Despite its various efforts, critics have had a hard time getting past 16 Automate Using Windows PowerShell former CEO Steve Ballmer’s warning that Linux New capabilities make automating IT processes easier and was a cancer and that it was fit for communists. worthwhile. Microsoft’s incremental embrace of the open source community has culminated with last year’s announcement that it would contribute the famed proprietary .NET Framework FEATURES including its Visual Studio tooling and last 22 First Look: Docker Machine for Hyper-V fall’s pact to support Linux-based Docker The new Docker Machine preview lets you build Docker VM hosts containers in Windows and Microsoft Azure. on various compatible OS hosts, hypervisors and clouds. Microsoft says 20 percent of server instances running in the Azure cloud are Linux-based. 34 vSphere 6.0 vs. Hyper-V So when Wired Business Editor Cade Metz, VMware has rolled out its first major new hypervisor platform in during a panel discussion he moderated at last three years and introduces some features not yet in Hyper-V. month’s ChefConf, asked Azure CTO Mark Russinovich if Microsoft would ever consider opening Windows, the response made headlines. “It’s definitely possible,” Russinovich COLUMNS responded to an audience of open source purists. “It’s a new Microsoft.” 1 Redmond View by Jeffrey Schwartz Will the Microsoft Open Source Odyssey Whether Microsoft goes that route, many in Extend to Windows? the open source community are still suspicious of the company, which is why Russinovich and the 38 Windows Insider by Greg Shields likes of Windows PowerShell inventor On-Site Data, Off-Site Tools Jeffrey Snover are trying to make their case. At 40 Foley on Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley least for some it’s working. “To me it’s powerful, Hardware’s New Supporting Role at Microsoft as an open source advocate, to watch them make that transformation,” said Facebook Systems DEPARTMENTS Engineer and longtime outspoken Microsoft critic Phil Dibowitz, who was on the open source 4 Redmond Report panel discussion with Metz and Russinovich. “It 7 Tech & Tools Watch makes me super excited.” R COVER ILLUSTRATION BY REDMOND STAFF 0515red_TOC-RedView_v3_1.indd 1 4/13/15 1:12 PM THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY ID STATEMENT Redmond (ISSN 1553-7560) Redmond is published monthly by 1105 Media, Inc., 9201 Oakdale Avenue, Ste. 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311. Periodicals postage paid at Chatsworth, Editorial Director, Enterprise Computing Group Scott Bekker CA 91311-9998, and at additional mailing offices. Editor in Chief Jeffrey Schwartz Complimentary subscriptions are sent to qualifying subscribers. 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