February, 2012

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 in the industry: Microsoft--top ranking technology company Pearson Publishing (Cisco Press)—world’s largest publisher Windows IT Pro (Penton Media...

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 toughest problems through technology. To Take Action and Change the World, go to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2012/02/13/are...

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 it. In previous posts ( Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID and Extending "Windows 8" apps to the cloud with SkyDrive ) we kicked...

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 toughest problems through technology. To Take Action and Change the World, go to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2012/02/13/are-you-ready-to-change-the-world.aspx In this interview, Daniel Leblond shares his innovative research...

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 consumable chunks and I’ve added my own commentary. Starting with the basics, what is a private cloud? From the whitepaper: Private...

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 them to have the conversations they know are coming (if they haven’t already happened) about cloud, what it’s all about and if it’s a suitable solution...

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 March 1 and take under a minute to complete and submit. To Nominate, go to: http://www.awardsforprofessionalism.org/nominate.html

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 and keep workers productive, while figuring out how to manage the devices and keep company information that might be accessed or stored on them secure...

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 Cup competition with two categories: Software Design and Windows Phone 7 Game Design. You could win a trip to Toronto for the Canadian Finals, a trip...

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. Below Dave details cost savings that can be claimed by implementing automation and self service as part of your deployment project. Read Dave’s...

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. Here Dave outlines a key strategy to employ at the very beginning of your project and some of the tools that you can use. As the clock keeps...

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 (CISA) Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) Certified in Risk and Information Systems...

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 your calendar and register using the links below . Please note that you will need to sign an non-disclosure agreement before attending or you won’t...

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 to mitigate those risks. Deploying a new operating system throughout a company can be disruptive and complex because so much is dependant on that...