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Now Version 1.4.0 - Sept 26 2008

Two Packages Released!

• Real-Time Monitoring Package
• Help Desks Package

TMurgent is proud to announce the release of the first commercial add-on products to SoftGrid from Microsoft.  These two packages are the first of several planned to be part of the PimpMy for SoftGrid line. This software also works with 4.5 Beta code. Look for a new release to support the 4.5 RTM in the future.

Check out the Products Page  for more information on the PimpMy for SoftGrid line.

Training

See the Training Page for information on upcoming SoftGrid GridMasterTraining classes.

Free Tools

Click to enlarge screenshot and read about ATM

Also of recent interest is a new tool, ATM, located in the Tools section and find out what your system file cache is up to. While you are there, check out the other tools available.

Tim Mangan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Virtualization (SoftGrid). The MVP Program is how Microsoft recognizes and awards professionals in the field that make a significant community contribution.

Welcome to TMurgent Technologies LLP

Welcome to the TMurgent Technologies website. This site provides access to on-line resources for practitioners in the Application Virtualiation, Server Based Computing, and Virtualization at large marketplaces.

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What's Up Lately

May 1, 2008

Tim Mangan has (finally) become a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization (Softgrid). Although Tim became a MVP for Terminal Services last summer before there was a Virtualization category existed, a person may only be in one category of the program. It took a while to get this straightened out. The other four SoftGrid MVPs are all based in Europe.

March 12, 2008

PimpMy for SoftGrid Help Desks Version 1.3.1 Released. This is the second package of the PimpMy for SoftGrid line is aimed at simplifying the life of Help Desk Personnel. Check it out!

March 11, 2008

PimpMy for SoftGrid Real-Time Monitoring Package Version 1.3.1 Released. Also, you may now order product licenses on-line. Check it out!

February 29, 2008

TMurgent Technologies is now TMurgent Technologies LLP! As a result of the excellent addition of Mary Jane, TMurgent has been restructured as a Partnership. This change impacts the back-end of the business and really is just a reflection the growth of the business in the last year.

January 2, 2008

PimpMy for SoftGrid Real-Time Monitoring Package is released! This is the first of several packages to be released under the PimpMy for SoftGrid line. Thank you to all who used the Beta and provided valuable feedback. Press Release on this is here.

November 21, 2007

Episode 7 of Sequencing with Tim Mangan is out!
 

November 12, 2007

SoftGrid 4.5 Beta is out. Time to play!

November 1, 2007

GridMasterTraining by TMurgent schedule updates for Jaunary and May 2008.   Registration is open! Click HERE for details!

October 20, 2007

"New" videos in the Video Garden.
 

August 12, 2007 A collection of links to SoftGrid Recipies is started here. If you want to send me your recipies I would be happy to post them for you.

August 28, 2007 Public registration opens for the November class of SoftGrid Advanced Administration and Sequencing by TMurgent using our GridMasterTraining courses. Check out the training page for more information on this and other classes.

October 20 I added some new links in the Video section to some of my briForum sessions now that Brian has made earlier briForum videos open to the public. Also, new public GridMasterTraining class dates are announced for January and May.

September 28 I was a speaker at briForum Europe 2008(http://www.briforum.com) in Amsterdam the week of October 8. I did 3 presentations (updated from the briForum in Chicago).

• The first session is part of a series I started last year to look into the Microsoft OS. Last year we looked at CPU thread scheduling in one session, and the Memory/Paging sub-systems in another.  This year's session looked into the System File Cache of the OS. 
• The second session is a "SoftGrid BOF". Ruben Sprujt, Kalle Suunamaki, and I host. We open with a couple of different SoftGrid case studies (a High School and an ASP) to get tongues wagging.

September 20 The September public GridMasterTraining class is completed. We all learned a lesson in why Hotels should not name their database server "SqlServer".

June 10.

It's official. Mary Jane joins TMurgent "full time".

June 4.Sequencing With Tim Mangan Episode 6 is out. Covers the SoftGrid 4.2 Tech Preview and Sequencing OneNote 2007!

June 2. The Technology Preview of SoftGrid 4.2 is out. I posted an early look at it on my blog over on BrianMadden.Com.

June 1.  TMurgent"s Tim Mangan is named a Microsoft MVP!

April See the ATM Tool FAQ for information on a new tool for looking at the OS File Cache, ATM!

This insightful tool allows you to monitor the system cache, as well as play at controlling it on some operating systems. It also exposes some of the new and interesting things happening with the Cache under Vista and Longhorn.

April I was a speaker at briForum 2007(http://www.briforum.com). I did four entirely new sessions this time, which means a lot of prep work.  I typically spend 2 to 3 weeks researching each new session, although the fourth one wasn't planned. We had a speaker not show and put together a session on the spot.

If you missed the conference, Brian will eventually have DVDs for sale (once he gets the video straightened out). There is a tremendous amount of technical information available from these videos.

MarchThe Microsoft Management Summit 2007 was a worthwhile trip. I posted an article on it at BrianMadden.com also.