Microsoft’s Guy Haycock discusses the SMB Announcements at WPC 2010

 
 

Varvid’s Aaron Booker chats with Guy Haycock, product planner in the Windows service business at Microsoft who specializes in the servers of the SMB segment. Guy talks about the three major announcements made by Microsoft: (1) a preview of Small Business Server (SBS) v7, (2) a new server edition called Aurora, which is a hybrid product (some parts are on premise and some are in the cloud) and (3) a preview of a software development kit that can be used to extend Aurora to the cloud. Guy  explains how these products will work and the reasons why customers will love them.

To learn more visit:  http://www.microsoft.com/sbs

To sign up for the Betas for Aurora and SBS7: http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/beta.aspx

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15 Jul, 2010 11:17 am by Richard McLean in Cloud Services, Featured, Microsoft, Microsoft Partner Network, Varvid.tv, Video Delivery, WPC10

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6 Comments

  1. Tim Barrett says:
    July 15, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    Nice job on that video Aaron. Great job of covering this huge announcement!

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    • Aaron Booker says:
      July 16, 2010 at 6:17 am

      Thanks Tim! We’re looking forward to getting some video contributions from you down the road.

      Sure is great to be able to talk about Aurora now – what a fantastic way for MSPs and VARs to start stepping into the Cloud with a fantastic hybrid solution…

      Aaron

      Reply
  2. Microsoft's Guy Haycock discusses the SMB Announcements at WPC 2010 | We Got Served says:
    July 16, 2010 at 12:39 am

    [...] this week’s Aurora and Small Business Server v7 announcements continues over at Varvid.tv where Guy Haycock, Product Planner in the Home and Small Business Server Team and Dave Sobel from Evolve Technologies [...]

    Reply
  3. Bogdan Szuta says:
    July 16, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    So, is Windows Home Server a crippled version of SBS, or is Aurora uncrippled version of WHS (ADS seems to be the only difference)? No matter how you dice it, it sounds bad.

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    • Brian Mannix says:
      August 2, 2010 at 3:12 pm

      I don’t know that it’s bad, but WHS-Vail will be confined to a 10-client workgroup, and SBS-Aurora to a 25-client domain. For me, the major cost of choosing Aurora is upgrading the clients from Win7-Home to Win7-Pro, so they can join the domain. Doesn’t seem worth it. But for MS to keep making this stuff and paying for it, they have to segment the market, sometimes in arbitrary ways.

      Reply
  4. Microsoft’s SBS Expert Speaks Out - Home Server Land - Blogs - Home Server Land says:
    July 17, 2010 at 9:03 am

    [...] Microsoft’s product planner in the Windows service business, Guy Haycock, chatted about the recent announcements made by Microsoft: (1) a preview of Small Business Server (SBS) v7, (2) a new server edition called Aurora, and (3) a preview of a software development kit that can be used to extend Aurora to the cloud. To hear what he had to say, please visit Microsoft’s Guy Haycock Discusses the SMB Announcements at WPC 2010 [...]

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