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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. 

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  • DPM 2007 has RTM’d !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    If you saw the official blog on the DPM blogsite, you’ll notice that this post has more exclamation marks.   This is a really exciting day for all of us at Microsoft, particularly those who have been preparing DPM 2007 to come to market. With the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, we are now just weeks…

  • DPM 2007 at SQL Server Users’ Conference — 2007 PASS Community Summit

    I just finished a very busy week at the SQL Server Users’ Conference (http://www.sqlpass.org/). We started with the first public viewing of an early DPM 2007 “Release Candidate” (yes, you heard right) for around 2000 customers, partners and vendor-folk… where we demonstrated DPM protecting SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.  It was very cool,…

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  • New webcast – DPM plus Virtual Server

    On August 30th, I finally get to talk about two of my favorite technologies in the same session – data protection and virtualization. For the past several years, two areas of computing continually get hotter and hotter – storage and virtualization.  And if I wasnt a “backup guy”, I would most certainly be a “virtual…

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  • How does DPM really protect data?

    Just because you know how DPM 2006 works … you don’t know DPM 2007. That statement is a little bold, since many folks know both products — but lately, I have heard a surprisingly large number of assumptions from people on how DPM2007 does what it does — or what its capabilities actually will be…

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  • Customer letter — Thank you, DPM !!!

    Here is an email that I received from a DPM early adopter which was just too cool not to share.  This customer has a distributed-infrastructure, is mid-market sized, and is using DPM 2007 beta 2 to protect Exchange 2007 SP1 beta (partipating in two Microsoft early adopter TAP/RDP programs – in production). Any administrator who has…

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  • Have you met your Microsoft Storage Specialist ?

    I want to lift up a team of Microsoft individuals that you may not know about – the Storage Technology Specialists at Microsoft. If you are a Microsoft customer, you likely know who your Microsoft Partner or your Microsoft Account Team is.  If you are a Microsoft Partner, you should know who your Partner Manager…