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ITAGENDA 2014 Priorities Include Datacenter Modernization and Support for Mobile, Cloud, Social and Big Data Initiatives, While Windows XP Migration Tops the List Foley: 5 Products Microsoft Could Deliver This Year January 2014 VOL.20 NO.1 REDMONDMAG.COM ITAGENDA 2014 Priorities include datacenter modernization and support for mobile, cloud, social and big data initiatives, while Windows XP migration tops the list. Next-Gen Virtualization › Extend your datacenter with SDN using the new Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 › A fi rst look at Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager › Some Microsoft Licensing Fees Could Rise This Year › Are You Failing Your IT Team? Go beyond one-dimensional performance monitoring. Visualize, analyze and optimize your entire virtual data center. Dell Foglight for Virtualization delivers heterogeneous operations performance management to help you increase VM density and lower operational expenditures. software.dell.com/FoglightforVirtualizationPerformance © 2013 Dell, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Dell, Dell Software, the Dell Software logo and products—as identified in this document—are registered trademarks of Dell, Inc. in the U.S.A. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. PrintAd-PerfMon-VirtCIO2013-US-KS Untitled-3 1 10/21/13 3:21 PM Redmond The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT CommunityContentsJANUARY 2014 COVER STORY REDMOND REPORT 4 Some Microsoft IT Agenda: Licensing Fees Could Rise This Year 2014 5 Microsoft Joins Tech Migrating to new platforms such as Firms Denouncing mobile devices, bolstering security Surveillance and new usage models such as social networking and analyzing 5 Windows Azure Active big data in real time, will drive this Directory Gains Group year’s IT initiatives. Management Page 10 " Microsoft has 12 New Era of Enterprise IT 17 Microsoft Steps announced two Analysts expect mobile, cloud, big up Windows Cadence data and social media to dominate the The new mobile-centric vision for Windows broad licensing technology agenda this year. 8 will have IT pros running to keep up. changes that 16 IT Tackles New 19 New Tools for Security Issues Microsoft Developers take eff ect Cloud providers will answer data privacy Besides bringing more programmers into this year." issues while attackers shift their focus the fold, the key to Windows success will to Windows XP and non-traditional be support for additional languages in connected devices. Visual Studio. COLUMNS 2 Redmond View: FEFEATURESE ATA U Jeff rey Schwartz Microsoft a Contender SP TLIGHT ON: Next-Gen Virtualization with Hyper-V and System Center In The New IT Order 200 NetworkN Evolution 28 Decision Maker: Extend the limits of your datacenter Don Jones with a software defi ned network Are You Failing Your based on the new Hyper-V in I T Tea m? Windows Server 2012 R2. 30 Windows Insider: Greg Shields 24 Bridge to the Cloud 4 Ways to Fail Your Microsoft’s new System Center System Center Installation 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager 32 Foley on Microsoft: provides tighter links between Mary Jo Foley private and hybrid cloud. 2014 Predictions: 5 Products Microsoft Will Deliver REVIEWS Product Review 8 Data Protection for the Enterprisese CommVault’s Simpana 10 raises the bar for managing backup and recovery. COVER ILLUSTRATION BY SHUTTERSTOCK/REDMOND STAFF RedmondView by Jeff rey Schwartz Redmond THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY REDMONDMAG.COM JANUARY 2014 ■ VOL. 20 ■ NO. 1 Editorial Staff Editor Jeff rey Schwartz Microsoft a Contender Group Managing Editor Wendy Hernandez Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley In The New IT Order Don Jones Greg Shields Art Staff Creative Director, s Microsoft watches Apple and Google eat away Media and Events Scott Shultz Art Director Joshua Gould at its OS market share, it’s clear the company’s Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao dominance is gone. No matter how much ground Production Staff A Director, Print Production David Seymour Print Production Coordinator Anna Lyn Bayaua it makes up with its new Windows Store Throughout the years, there have Online/Digital Media app model and Windows 8, Microsoft been constant changes of the guard Online News Editor Kurt Mackie is no longer the sole choice. The new in all aspects of IT. The one taking Executive Editor, New Media Michael Domingo Senior Director, multiplatform world gives users more place now is affecting almost every Online Media & Events Becky Nagel Associate Web Editor Chris Paoli options and is shifting Microsoft and established player in the IT world. Site Administrator Shane Lee its partners in new directions. As Microsoft brings on a new leader, Designer Rodrigo Muñoz Sharing a market it doesn’t own powerhouses like Cisco, Dell, HP and Advertising and Sales VP, Group Publisher Dan LaBianca is nothing new to Microsoft. For Oracle all face new realities of their Associate Publisher, East Jonas Devita instance, there was a time not long ago own that will make growth more Associate Publisher, West Bruce Halldorson Microsoft Account Manager Danna Vedder when Microsoft was an up-and-comer diffi cult for these behemoths to achieve Director, Print & Online Production David Seymour in the datacenter. Despite owning a in this rapidly changing IT industry. Certifi cation & Training Al Tiano nice piece of the IT infrastructure I hear plenty of critiques about Advertising Sales Associate Tanya Egenolf market these days, Microsoft has never Microsoft— many are valid. The dominated there . company may never be known for President Henry Allain When Windows NT fi rst arrived, getting to market fi rst. It seems to have Senior Director of Marketing and Audience Engagement Michele Imgrund Unix and proprietary host platforms failed to react quickly enough to the Director of Online Marketing Tracy Cook Audience Development were the infrastructure of choice. Just mobile client shift. Despite all of this, Manager Irene Fincher as Windows 2000 became a viable however, 75 percent of you are either alternative to Unix, Linux came along very optimistic or cautiously optimistic President & Neal Vitale with a server alternative. Linux still about Microsoft at this juncture. That Chief Executive Offi cer predominates today in the Web server doesn’t guarantee Microsoft anything, Senior Vice President & Richard Vitale Chief Financial Offi cer market, although not the enterprise but it seems promising. Executive Vice President Michael J. Valenti server market. Today Windows Server, The good news is Microsoft is on a Vice President, Finance & Christopher M. Coates Administration Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint transformative path. Despite its gaffes, Vice President, Erik A. Lindgren Information Technology & and SQL Server have a strong corpo- the company still remains well posi- Application Development Vice President, David F. Myers rate foothold, further supported by tioned as a contender in setting the IT Event Operations third-party solution providers. agenda for the near future. Chairman of the Board Jeff rey S. 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