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  • Blog Post: Windows Server 2012 IT camps

    I have been out in the US for the past four weeks, and during my absence the rest of the UK TechNet team have filled my diary with various events including the next series of IT camps.  These camps will all be  on Windows Server 2012 specifically around how virtualisation changes in this release...
    on20 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft, and Hadoop for Big Data

    Despite common misconceptions Microsoft now has extensive interoperability with open source technologies for example you can run a php application on Azure, get support from us to run RedHat, SUSE or CentOs on Hyper-V and manage your applications from System Center. ,  So extending this approach...
    on5 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Cloud Cookery class

    Cooks would rather not wash up, and the best chefs have someone else do the shopping prepare the vegetables etc. and often end up planning and managing the menus and kitchens. In our IT professional world I would rather not worry about patching, I hate doing all the repetitive boring stuff and would...
    on2 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Private Cloud IT Camps

    I have covered some of what we do at IT camps in a couple of previous posts, but what we did in Birmingham and London this week was to launch a new kind of camp, on Private Cloud.  This builds on knowledge gained at a Hyper-V IT camp and on Microsoft Virtual Academy and explain the how and why of...
    on23 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Managing a hybrid cloud with System Center 2012

    Hybrid cloud is the term applied to the increasingly common scenario where a business runs some of its services in the public cloud but retains some on premises, although it is also possible to use assets from both to provide a service as well. For some business this is just a transitional step as more...
    on17 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft System Center and BMC Management Tools Integration and Interaction

    In his second guest post Greg Charman from Kelverion has a look at BMC integration. Many customers have made large investments in both Microsoft System Center and BMC Datacenter Management Tools. Historically integrating these two vendors product sets has been challenging and time consuming.With the...
    on14 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Event: IT Camp Leeds Feb 28th

    Back in December Simon and I invited a few friends along to help us beta test a different kind of event, an IT Camp .  The idea is simply to do smaller, more interactive events where discussions and questions are encouraged.  The presenters, (Simon and I) being a bit more in the background...
    on1 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: SQL Server 2012 and the private cloud

    Putting up a marketing slide that says SQL Server is a good private cloud citizen is good marketing, but what’s in the box to back the claim up? My top three would be: Windows Server core .  Patching is a major maintenance problem with lots of virtual machines, and server core cuts that in half...
    on1 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: System Center 2012–It’s all about the application

    The Accountants, sales guys and lawyers in your business don’t understand or care about how fast your hypervisor is or how many nodes there are in your cluster. What they care about is that the e-mail works the intranet is up and the business can trade with its customers. In short they care about...
    on24 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Bits 11 - Notes & Queries

    If you didn’t manage to fight your fight your way through the Everton & Liverpool fans to SQL Bits I thought you might like to see some of the random questions I got asked.. How do I manage SQL Azure? I think the key thing about developing for the cloud is to ensure that your application can handle...
    on3 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Back to Skool

    Getting time, and resources to stay current with technology is always hard for IT professionals even when that training applies directly to your role. If you are thinking of cross training because for whatever reason you can’t see a future in doing what you are currently doing then you’re...
    on11 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Haiku-V

    Virtualisation Good management tools Private cloud appears     Public cloud worries Cause myth and uncertainty, Trust is essential   [ Haiku is a strict form of Japanese poetry dating back to the 1600s]
    on8 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Reach for the Cloud - System Center 2012

      For me the most interesting stuff in the System Center 2012 is the cloud stuff.  Some of this is obvious there’s cloud button in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)  2012, and there’s even a new product in the line up, currently called Concero that is totally cloud focused as you can see from...
    on7 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Have a word with your accountant

    I spent yesterday afternoon at a CIMA members meeting to discuss enterprise 2.0, on the back of some commissioned research by Manchester Business School (Heba El-Sayed and Chris Westrup). It occurred to me that a lot of this plays well into the world of the IT professional not least because both professions...
    on15 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Mixing the public and private cloud

    No one except startups will completely embrace the public cloud immediately. This means that a mixed environment of some services on site and some not will persist for some time in many organisations.  For any given service, a decision will be made about where to put it , in the public cloud to...
    on9 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Notes & Queries from TechDays 2011

    I have been at TechDays Live all last week and although I did a bit of presenting, I was mainly there to listen and keep the week running smoothly.  I scribbled down a few notes during the various sessions I was in which I thought might be of interest: Easyjet have an amazing set of stories around...
    on1 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Azure Update

    The annoying thing about cloud services like SQL Azure is that they keep changing as more features are added. The great thing about cloud services like SQL Azure is that they keep changing as more features are added. So if I write post about version x of SQL Server that has some value while that version...
    on2 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Cloud and emerging economies

    I just noticed a comment on our UK TechNet blog about how public cloud could put emerging economies at more of a disadvantage than those in developed countries. The comment I saw specifically mentioned broadband as the problem as  cloud services need internet connectivity.  However while in...
    on15 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Using System Center Advisor

    In my last post I fired up the new release candidate of System Center Advisor , and this is what it looks like after I have left it running across a couple of servers I have pointed to the servers.. Just one thing to note, in my last post I introduced Advisor as “essentially Systems Center Operations...
    on6 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Bye bye Atlanta, Hello System Center Advisor

    One of the many announcements to come out of the recent Microsoft Management Summit was System Center Advisor . Essentially this is Operations Manager (SCOM) in the cloud, so a sort of InTune for servers.  I had a look at the precursor to this, Project Atlanta back in January, but at the time it...
    on4 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Virtual Academy

    I don’t think data centre management or the private cloud is particularly difficult to learn, but it could be easier to find out where to start.  Of course if your focus is virtualisation or you only make tools in this space then your site should make this journey pretty straight forward. ...
    on24 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Normal Service has been resumed

    I’ve just got back from 5 weeks off in NZ to celebrate my 50th lap of the sun, hence the guest posts on here recently. Just before I went away  the UK TechNet team setup  Tech Days Online .. based on a chat Simon and I had about what 2011 holds for the IT Professional which you can watch here...
    on17 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: System Center Essentials and the Self Service Portal

    I was looking at the Self Service Portal (SSP),  a free add-on to System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), recently and wondered if this would work alongside System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) to create a basic private cloud.  If you haven heard of  the SSP it enables business users...
    on14 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: The future of the Domain Controller–A guest pot by John Donnelly

    Andrew asked a really interesting question back in December about the future of domain controllers. I’d like to point out two complementary paths that may converge in the future and work out a possible user story for them. The first path is represented by Active Directory Federation Services. ADFS v2...
    on27 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Project Atlanta part 2–Installation

    Following on from last post I thought I had better fire up Atlanta to see what it cold find out about my demon environment. I made this screencast as I installed and configured it .. It only took a few minutes to get to the stage where I had two servers, one (Oxford-DC, a server with no SQL Server on...
    on19 Jan 2011
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