More Hyper-V

Not content with going halves on a new TV for xmas the decision has been made to go halves on a brand new shiny server. On the way is a twin dual-core beastie, 24 of the RAM and four 15k SAS kiddies.
Processor - check. RAM for ~10 mid-power concurent guests (two DCs and eight Exchange servers perhaps (I wish!!)) and IOPS - check. Stick a bit of SATA in there for some basic capacity on top of the 3TB of capacity in the other host and we're hot to trot.

Now all we gotta do is take out a second mortgage to pay the electric bill.

OMG - No BlackBerry

Cold sweats.
Shivers.
No BB service across USA.
Oh, company just mass-emailed us. No BB service globally.

Wondering why left Windows Mobile.

Oh yeah, I remember, UN-fracking-believably unstable builds.

Wondering why not on iPhone.

Oh, yeah, I'm on Verizon.


Booooo.

Mixed Workloads on NetApp

Some very bright people have been beavering away. http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3804.pdf
Ever wanted to run your data on one efficient platform? Ever wanted that data synchronously replicated to somewhere else? Fancy having complete 100% seamless failover? Fancy having the data in one place but the servers in another? (after all, why fail it all over if only half it went titsup!)
It's an awesome paper that describes Microsoft solutions on a NetApp MetroCluster platform and gives you an idea of what you can do for your customers in terms of data presentation and protection so long as you are prepared to get out of your comfort zone and think innovatively.