Microsoft Australia has met with systems integrators, web hosts and customers to bring them up to speed on its dynamic data centre toolkit due for release next year.
The Redmond giant's director of virtualisation Zane Adams and his team met with business and channel partners, service providers, systems integrators and hosters, as well as customers.
"My discussion has been on what their next deployment is and on giving them information on the dynamic data centre toolkit for enterprises to deploy a private cloud for their data centres," Adams said.
The free toolkit would be released in March, he said.
Adams also used his visit in Australia to update the market on the vendor's server virtualisation plans.
He said that Microsoft "pretty much know where [it's] going to go with the next level" of its Hyper-V virtualisation hypervisor.
He also revealed that Microsoft would add "automation tools and features" into the next revision of its System Center management suite, potentially including some form of auto-provisioning for virtual machines.
That revision was due out "in the next 180 days", Adams said.
He claimed Microsoft was winning a larger share of the server virtualisation space globally. Adams said most "wins" were of VMware customers not looking to rip-and-replace but to make their next purchase Microsoft.
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