HostingCon 2008 - Video Interview with Michael van Dijken
My apologies for taking some time to churn these out. I assure you the rest will be coming up much faster. It's just that THIS interview in particular was quite the challenge to edit (for obvious reasons once you watch it).
But, the wait is worth it my friends because you get to see Michael van Dijken, the lead marketing manager for hosted solutions at Microsoft, talk about the company's recent Hyper-V technology launch (Microsoft's hypervisor virtualization engine for Windows Server 2008 that officially became available a few weeks ago. Liam wrote a great post about this here.) and Microsoft's cloud computing strategy while simultaneously playing the drums in a game of Rockband! That is talent!
Needless to say, it may have been one of the most challenging interviews he's been in and I've conducted, on a "having to focus on two things at once and not mess up on EITHER task" kind of way :)
We'll be bringing you an interview with Oliver Mauss, the new CEO of 1&1 Internet later this week as well, so keep an eye out for that.
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