• On January 31st, in Irving, Texas … or a simulcast location near you … you have the opportunity to learn more (a lot more) about Microsoft’s management platform – System Center. For those of you who don’t know of my past lives, I used to be the product manager for two SysCtr products, Operations Manager…


  • The Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program puts the best practices and private cloud experience of Microsoft into an IT architecture that provides consistency and flexibility in the Microsoft stack, while still enabling its hardware partners to bring their own expertise and differentiated components together for customers benefit. While at MMS 2012, I had the…


  • [Cross-posted from my ESG blog – Technical Optimist .com] Data protection processes and technologies are vital to ensuring an organization’s operational, regulatory, and financial health. As a result, data protection infrastructure is included in every IT budget and is top of mind for data center staff. However, due to the complexity and often high cost…


  • 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. Am very excited to be speaking about data…


  • Lately, it has occurred to me that Microsoft’s banter about “Three Screens and a Cloud” gets more real every day — those screens being your smartphone, your computer and your television, as a unified and unifying experience. As a confessionary disclosure: My computers run Windows, including my home server My gaming consoles are Xbox 360s…


  • No, I didn’t do a typo and mean to say “Every Windows Server has an iSCSI Initiator” And it may only be a slight exaggeration when I say “Every“. But did you know that your Windows Server 2008 R2 server can also be an iSCSI Target? I didn’t. Typically, one thinks of an iSCSI Target…