A useful list of Microsoft blog sites for reference:

Windows 8 News

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/preview

Windows 8 Blog | Building Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b8

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld

The App-V Product Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/appv

The Official MDOP Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop

Ask the Directory Services Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askds

Ask the Performance Team
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team
http://blogs.technet.com/networking

Ask the Core Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore

Ntdebugging Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging

The Hot Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/hot

TRM
http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

TechNet Webcast: Hyper-V: The Base of a Private Cloud

The term "cloud" refers to a new paradigm in the evolution of computing. It often entails running your servers, either internal or hosted, on virtual machines. In an IT career, the one constant is that you need to continually learn the new technologies to stay current. In this webcast, we cover the fundamentals of Microsoft’s technologies that support the private cloud. We overview Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology and then dive deeper into the features of this hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. This webcast is heavily focused on demonstrations and has a Q&A session at the end.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032504314&Culture=en-US

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.


http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=732