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1 Minute to the Industry’s Highest Award—Closes March 1!
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
Nominations close tomorrow, March 1, and take under a minute to complete! Nominate yourself or your hard working colleagues for the global IT industry’s highest honour, the Awards for Professionalism. The award partners are amongst the largest organizations...
Lee Simbeye, Imagine Cup Top Student Researcher Carleton University
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over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
In this interview, Lee Simbeye and his team are leading examples of students impacting the world. All it takes is one good idea. Imagine Cup , the premiere worldwide technology competition, is looking for students, to help solve some of the world’s...
Want to connect everything to the Cloud?
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over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
Here’s a great post by Steve Sinofsky on “Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows 8.” “ …offering a cloud service for each and every Windows 8 customer and all their PCs (and phones), should you choose to use...
Daniel Leblond, Award-Winning Imagine Cup Top Student Researcher Carleton University
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
All it takes is one good idea. Imagine Cup , the premiere worldwide technology competitions, is looking for students, to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems through technology. To Take Action and Change the World, go to: http://blogs...
Microsoft Private Cloud Part 1: What is a Private Cloud?
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
A new whitepaper was released in January comparing private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware, taking a look at the functionality, benefits and economics of each solution. This series of blog posts breaks down the components of the whitepaper into...
Are you ready for the cloud conversation?
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
In the midst of hopping around websites looking for something else, I came across this which I just had to share. It’s an online event called Cloud 101 Jump Start and it’s for business leaders and technical decision makers in organizations to prepare...
Industry’s Highest Award, Nominate for Recognition of Outstanding Work!
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
Nominate yourself or your hard working colleagues for the global IT industry’s highest honour, the Awards for Professionalism supported by Microsoft, Pearson Publishing (Cisco Press), Penton Media, Interop, Agile IT, GITCA and the NPA. Nominations close...
AlignIT Manager Tech Talk #9: Your Enterprise on the Go
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over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
Earlier this year, there was a post on this blog about the change that’s happening within organizations and how employees are bringing technology from home to make themselves more productive at work. IT departments are scrambling to support these devices...
Take action and change the world!
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
All it takes is one good idea. Imagine Cup , one of the premiere worldwide technology competitions, is looking for students, to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems through technology. This year, Microsoft will be hosting a Canadian Imagine...
New math for Windows 7 deployments using automation and self service
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over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
This is a guest blog post written by Dave Kawula , a Senior Consultant with 1E . Dave was the guest on our January episode of the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk where we talked about how IT managers can take the risk out of their Windows 7 deployment projects...
Considering a Windows 7 deployment? Get the right tools to rationalize your applications before you start.
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
This is a guest blog post written by Dave Kawula , a Senior Consultant with 1E . Dave was the guest on our January episode of the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk where we talked about how IT managers can take the risk out of their Windows 7 deployment projects...
Jo Stewart-Rattray: Preventing Governance and Security Failures
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
Interview: Jo Stewart-Rattray, Award Winning Top Executive, International Security and Risk Management Authority and Vice President ISACA QUALIFICATIONS Masters of Education Studies – Psychology Certified Information Systems Auditor...
Psst…wanna know some product vision and roadmap secrets?
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
It often helps when planning to have a roadmap and when planning your IT infrastructure it helps to know the Microsoft product roadmap. If you want to know what our vision and roadmap is over the next while, then block off the morning of February 22 in...
AlignIT Manager Tech Talk #8: De-risking Your Windows Deployment
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over 2 years ago
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Ruth Morton
With any big change to your IT infrastructure comes risk, but of course you're hoping that the rewards will out weigh those risks. In fact, you're doing more than just hoping – you're planning, strategizing, and putting your organization in a good position...