Hello everyone welcome to my blog.  First a little about myself, I am a Program Manager in the Windows Server Division focused on the Virtualization, Virtualization Management and DSI workloads.  I have worked at Microsoft for 7 years and before that I worked at IBM and UPS as a System Programmer. I am a Microsoft Certfied Architect (Infrastructure) Enough about me how about the topics that I will be discussing.  I plan to discuss topics like:

Service Oriented Infrastructure – How to Architect an Infrastructure with Service Oriented Applications in mind. I plan to cover topics ranging from Security, Networking, application integration, and storage if it is infrastructure I will cover it.

Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative -  I plan to discuss the Microsoft DSI tools starting first with the SDM (Service definition model) the SDM toolset will be a part of Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Architect. Also I plan on covering some real world use cases and get Infrastructure Architects involved with SDM and DSI. SDM or DCML choose your poison!!!

Virtualization and Virtualization Management-  Focus on building Virtualization solutions, Virtual Machine hosting environments, Virtual machine lifecycle management.  Of course I will cover tips and trick with Microsoft Virtual Server R2.

Infrastructure Security – Extremely important that today’s Infrastructure Architect is a security expert as well.  I will introduce some topics and point to my security expert colleague’s blog’s as well:

Jesper Johansson

Steve Riley

I promise to make it interesting as well informing.

Thanks

Allen Stewart