Most people have heard about Microsoft ’s vision the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI).  The term has been around for a while, it was announced back in 2003.  For those who haven’t heard of DSI, here’s a copy and paste straight from the Microsoft Website:   (DSI) is Microsoft’s technology strategy for products and solutions that help businesses enhance the dynamic capability of its people, process, and IT infrastructure using technology

…Yup, you guessed it.  Virtualization is one of the three key architectural elements of the DSI strategy.  The other two elements are Design for operations, and Knowledge-driven management.

DSI is coming together, although it’s still a vision, Microsoft is 4 years into a 10 year strategy.  But all the pieces are coming together.  It gives me a buzz that Windows 2008 and Virtualization are “parts of the puzzle”.   DSI isn’t “just windows“, it’s also technologies such as Visual Studio, Vista, System Center Suite and Forefront; combined with frameworks such as ITIL and open standards such as SML. 

If you are interested and want to know a little more about DSI, download the DSI Overview White Paper, it’s only 12 pages long and a definitely worth taking the time to read.