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Tuesday, January 17 — Microsoft held a webcast on their Private Cloud offerings and announced the Release Candidate of their System Center 2012 management tools.
Thursday, January 19 – the System Center Universe 2012 community-driven event will be going through many of the technologies in that release.
Today, I begin my next adventure – as an “Analyst & Lab Engineer” for ESG, the Enterprise Strategy Group.
For those that don’t know ESG, they are mostly known for their industry research and analysis of IT, particularly around Storage, Data Protection, Virtualization, Infrastructure Management, etc.
When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market. I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for about a month, because the idea that Microsoft producing its own backup solution could change how Windows administrators [...]
I am starting my New Years’ Resolution early by sharing some of the non-System Center geek things that make my life easier or better.
The Windows Sidebar is not new, having been first introduced with Windows Vista. And most of us probably have the weather, a clock and Bing search tools. But every time that [...]
Today (actually yesterday) marks five years for me at Microsoft. It’s been an amazing adventure so far and as usual for anniversaries, it seems like both yesterday and a lifetime ago that I started.
At the time, I was a Microsoft MVP in File System and Storage technologies – which is the closest category that [...]
What an amazing week so far! In the past three months, I have had the immense privilege of joining the OpsMgr family, including not only a phenomenal product group, but also a very active and passionate community of MVPs and SMEs, as well as great customers of all sizes. This week, the thrills continued [...]
Was excited to see one of the first reviews from my book – from Paul Schnackenburg, who many of you will know from various his System Center and Microsoft coverage in publications including ZDnet.AU, RedmondMag and 4Sysops.com. He also writes his own blog called Tell IT as IT is. Paul was kind enough to read [...]
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