I’m a process person, so when my boss suggested I go on ITIL training, I jumped at the chance. Seriously. I love this stuff! And I was delighted to find that we had an excellent instructor – Barry Brown from Pink Elephant . He has a great way of using...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb , C.M., M.A., PhD.D. (University of Toronto), D. Math. (Hon., University of Waterloo), D. Eng...

Even though Office and SharePoint 2010 haven’t been released yet, there are a number of Canadian companies piloting early adopter projects using the beta applications to enhance corporate collaboration, enable management of content and use business intelligence...

Not only do we have a great way to help you turn your WordPress Blog into a Windows 8 app, if you hurry you could do it with very little development and recoup your Windows Store Developer Account costs. Here's how it works: IdeaNotion, is offering...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Charles Hughes : International Strategist & Thought Leader, Chairman, Board Director, Master Information Technologists...

In a recent interview, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Developer Division, Scott Guthrie talked about how Cloud computing with Windows Azure means that your developers can deliver a new kind of value to your business. He highlighted a few key points...

“Virtualization without management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place.” ~ Tom Bittman, Gartner VP & Analyst There are many good things about using virtualization in your infrastructure: consolidation of physical servers...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Leon Strous: President International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Chair International Advisory Board World...

You saw the interview with Leon Strous in IT Manager Connection and I wanted to provided an update from their news release. I had the good fortune to be invited to the World Computing Congress where I chaired a panel session on IT Professional Certification...

Good morning Everyone. By way of introduction my name is Jeff Ewin and this is officially my first blog post here on the ‘Because It’s Everybody’s Business’ blog. Ok…make that my first Blog post ever! I guess I’ll start with a very brief introduction...

There is always good stuff to be found on the Microsoft world wide digital events site. Below, are the most recent or highly rated webcasts, videos and podcasts specifically for IT managers. Series Highlights: Learn the Benefits of the Microsoft In the...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview, Jeff Kempiners , VP of Avanade in the US, and a top-ranking IT and business executive. Jeff is a founding director to...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Intel Manager Michael Wrinn . I had a chance to talk to Michael at an international education council meeting hosted by...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Brian Cameron, Awards for Professionalism: Career Achievement Award Recipient, Professor and Executive Director, Center...

As you all know, without SCVMM, moving VMs manually (for example when doing an upgrade of a server or rebuilding a cluster etc) is not just a copy and paste scenario. A good friend of mine; John Kadianos from Hyper Technologies ( www.hypert.com ) shared...

Social networking, emerging economies, the consumerization of IT…there’s little doubt that these trends are changing how, when and where business is conducted. And regardless of a certain recent product announcement , the mobile phone is becoming the...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Neil Leslie, General Manager Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE), past Vice President of MSIT, Microsoft...

For best performance, should I use dynamic or fixed disks, how about differencing or raw disks and what about for specific workloads? If you have ever asked yourself questions like those (and let’s face it if you are a geek like me, frequently)… do I...

Since we added Live migration to Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2 Server, I have had numerous requests from people wanting an official guide to the networking configuration requirements for optimal performance and reliability. The good news is that the guide...

Come and get your Cloud geek on! On April 19 th GITCA and Microsoft are running an event called “ 24 Hours in the Cloud ”. There will be 24 one hour sessions around the world covering a wide range of Cloud Computing topics. The presenters...

  A large part of any effective IT organization is communication – especially communication within your organization. And although you may be presenting the same or a similar message to everyone, it’s important to consider your audience and tailor...

I received this update from the MVP Program – thank you Simran Chaudhry and Ljupco Grmaskoski the Canadian MVP leads. I also interviewed Dharmesh Mehta , Director Windows and Windows Live Division, Microsoft Corp, on Windows Live and all the great new...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Rabeb Othmani, Microsoft Career Factor Idol Winner in the category of “Windows Phone 7 Developer”. Rabeb is also an Imagine...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have a ChinaValue interview with Nova Spivack that I conducted with Alex Lin (CEO of ChinaValue ). I highly recommend that you read...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Graham Watson : Microsoft Senior Manager UGSS Microsoft Redmond. Graham talks about the importance of influencers, what...