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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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First and Foremost – CONGRATS to my Microsoft friends for the recent release of the beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 !!! Its amazing for me to remember back to joining the DPM team as v1 was releasing – and now seeing what v4 has become. I am really looking forward to hearing…
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Today, Microsoft released its public beta for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012. Of course, in full disclosure, most of my readers know that I am not just an ESG guy who loves data protection, but was the senior product manager for DPM from its v1 initial release in market through its v4 pre-beta…
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Am not sure whether to shout “Woo Hoo” or “Finally" … but am going with “Woooo Hooo”. ISO and VHD files are a wonderful container for files, until you actually need just one. Prior to Windows 8, you could risk downloading shareware (with and without malware) to mount ISOs, which was really risky because most…
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Do you remember when you were a kid, and during the first day of school, the teacher would ask you to write an essay on what you did over the summer? Looking back, I presume the teacher really wanted to get a sense of your writing skills, but also learn a little about you and…
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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. I had known of and worked with ESG as…
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The Beta is Here – and the CEP is coming fast ! First and Foremost – CONGRATS to my Microsoft friends for the recent release of the beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012 !!! I was so proud to be a member of the team last year and am really looking forward to seeing…
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