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I served as a Product Manager for a variety of Microsoft products — acting as primary evangelist, GTM planner, feature stakeholder, and field enabler — from 2005 to 2011. Here is an archive of my blogs, articles, and projects as part of my role at Microsoft.
- Windows Server – Backup, File Sharing, Hyper-V, and Storage features
- Windows Storage Server – purpose-built and OEM’d filer
- System Center – Data Protection Manager (DPM) and OpsMgr
- Also authored game recommendations on Xbox.com
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One of the announcements made at MMS 2010 last week was from i365, a Seagate company, who announced a DPM 2010 appliance. The i365 appliance, called the EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager or EDPM for short. Here are few cool things about the EDPM appliance: 1) Take it out of the box…
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One of the coolest parts of evangelizing a product on behalf of Microsoft is discovering other folks in the IT community that are passionate about the same technologies that I am. Last week, at MMS 2010, I had the opportunity to meet a System Center Influencer named Mike Resseler. Mike is an active…
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Easily, the 2nd most common question that I hear regarding DPM 2010 is: How do I upgrade to DPM 2010 RTM ? The most common question is “when will it be available”, to which I reply: Evaluation is available now at DPM 2010 Evaluation Software Full Packaged Product will be available by June 1st…
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It is hard to imagine that today has finally arrived. It has been so long in the making, and yet it seems like time flew by. For my friends who may not be as geeky as me – today is the day that we announced that the next generation of both products that I manage…
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I’ve been with MS for 4.5 years now, having come from some smaller data protection companies like Double-Take and Cheyenne (now part of CA). In those organizations, I always took pride in the personal level of commitment that each one of us had with our customers. One of my happy surprises with joining a larger…
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Last month, I was so excited to work with my friends at Iron Mountain around DPM and CloudRecovery in Boston. Well, the partnership continues to get bigger, as our first case studies are coming out, updated whitepapers and blogs for deployment, and we are continuing to see more and more IRM customers who need Microsoft’s…
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