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  • Backing up the Internet – with DPM 2010

    Here in DPM land, we are always excited to hear when an expert customer or partner is able to leverage our technology in new ways. One of our System Center Influencers has figured out how to back up the Internet itself.   We’re not exactly sure how, because I thought we cut that feature early in…

  • MCP certification business card

    Every once in a while, I find a clever applet that I’d like to share.  This one is the “MCP Virtual Business Card”. www.MCPvirtualBusinessCard.com It uses your LiveID and then allows you to do all of the normal business card contact info, as well as easy links for social networking.  But what I thought was…

  • Happy Data Privacy Day … from System Center

      originally posted on Yes, it really is an established day.  Check out http://dataprivacyday2010.org/: Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through personal information.  In this networked world, in which we are thoroughly digitized, with our identities, locations, actions, purchases, associations, movements, and histories stored as so many…

  • My book is now available for preorder – Data Protection for the Virtual Data Center

    There is something very surreal in finding your name on Amazon.com … so I just had to share it.   Description (from publisher): Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments! Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written…

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  • Am I really writing this stuff ?

      Today has been a very cool day that caused me to be introspective – so I wanted to share a little of myself with you. Earlier today, I did my first post as one of the “System Center Expert” contributors to Microsoft’s blog on the “Because it’s Everybody’s Business” initiative. The blog post is…

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  • When does an email signature look like a race car ?

    When you start putting a whole bunch of advertizing graphics on it.   This is a relatively meaningless post, but I needed to try out some links and thought it was humorous when I got done.   And even if you aren’t in the US, just take a few moments on Thursday to randomly think of…