Today, Microsoft launched its Cloud Guide for IT Leaders, an online digital resource for information technology and business leaders interested in cloud computing. Wondering how the roles of IT staffers will change with cloud computing? Curious why organizations have left Google Apps? The Cloud...

By Lee Gates, Sr. Manager, Microsoft Solutions Engineering, NetApp The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters (DDTK-H) has been gaining mindshare since its launch last year, as Service Providers look for guidance to create private and public cloud offerings based on Microsoft's Hyper-V with integrated...

In our mid-February blog post we announced the launch of the Microsoft Virtualization Summit 2010 – From the Desktop to the Datacenter that is happening across 45+ countries and representing 100+ customer events. The summit is off to a good start and will run across the globe through June this year...

By Lori Mac Vitte, Technical Marketing Manager The often touted benefits of “saving money” and “reducing expenses” associated with virtualization and cloud computing are often discussed in the context of reduction or elimination of servers. The softer savings associated with both technologies are...

Dynamic Infrastructure ToolKit for System Center Deployment: Scenario Walkthrough Attend this webcast to learn how to set up the foundation for a private cloud in your enterprise with the help of Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC) scenarios such as: · Enabling independent...

Looking at virtualization but unsure about your options? Thinking about migrating to Windows 7? Interested in VDI and Server Virtualization? Want to save on costs but wondering about ROI? How to improve IT flexibility? Have more questions than answers? Ready, Set, Virtualize. Join us at the...

By Wally MacDermid, Director of IT as a Service Solutions at NetApp The word “dynamic” is very appropriate when discussing topics such as cloud and the transitions in customers’ data centers. A year or so ago many of my conversations with customers, partners, and fellow NetApp employees included...

Posted by Brad Anderson Corporate Vice President, Management And Services Division Today Microsoft and HP announced some great news for customers and partners of our infrastructure software and server applications: a $250 million engineering, sales and services partnership to advance cloud computing...

Hello. I am Jörg Ehrhart, Managing Director, IPX Server, Germany. Our new portfolio of server products are all based on Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Center concept. They provide us with a set of operational efficiencies and a rich array of new features that will increase the value of our products, such as...

The Dynamic Data Center concept supports a hosters’ need to move his infrastructure to a scalable model, thereby enabling his customers to both scale and manage their environment either through automation or through on-demand. We are experiencing great success deploying the concept alongwith with many...

By Lee Gates, Senior Manager – Microsoft Solutions Engineering at NetApp NetApp and Microsoft jointly announced a new three-year strategic partnership focused on deepening our technical integration efforts for virtualization, private cloud computing and storage management for Microsoft infrastructures...

Building a Private Cloud with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises You can build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 using the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises...

In the first ever Hosting Days Event organized in India, two leading Hosters of the country: Reliance Data Center and Netmagic Solutions announced their respective cloud computing offerings leveraging the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center . Reliance Data Center A hosted infrastructure...

This is the second webcast in our Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure series. In case you missed it, the on-demand webcast is now available for viewing . Click here. The webcast gives you an overview of how Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center empower hosters to deliver managed...

Hello, I'm Ryan Jones, Virtualization Product Manager at MaximumASP . We provide managed hosting services on the Microsoft platform to over 50,000 domains in 120 countries . MaxV and Microsoft’s Platform with Hyper-V, System Center and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit Provides Our Customers Flexibility...

ISA Technologies is a privately owned West Australian Company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner . We have been operating for more than 20 years and specialize in Microsoft Consulting and Professional Services, Microsoft based Software Development , Network Services Consultancy, Managed Services and...

Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters: Foundation for a Partner-Hosted Cloud This is the second webcast in our series. The first webcast was 'A Beginner’s Guide to Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure' . In case you missed it, you can view the on-demand webcast . ...

Server Deployment cut by 1,000 hours a month. Data Center savings of up to $2 million annually. Faster time-to-market with cloud offerings. Hostway Corporation is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies, providing a full range of Internet services to 2 million direct and indirect customers...

Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications (RCom), has launched a hosted infrastructure service based on the Microsoft platform for Enterprises and Small & Medium businesses (SMBs) in India. Reliance Cloud Computing Services The new service, 'Reliance Cloud Computing Services'...

Hello, I’m Randall Robinson, CIO & GM Operations of RackForce. As part of our Dynamic Dedicated Server (DDS) vision, we recently launched ddsCloud. It enables computing resources - memory (RAM), processing (CPU) and data storage (SAN) - to be throttled up or down independently of each other - perhaps...

Hello, I’m Jess Coburn, Founder and CEO of Applied Innovations ( www.appliedi.net ) , and I would like to share with you why we deployed the Dynamic Data C enter Toolkit for Hosters. Applied Innovations specializes in Windows Hosting, and was founded in 1999 to offer affordable, cost effective, scalable...

Hello everyone. I am Radhesh Balakrishnan, director of System Center and Virtualization Marketing, and I head up the Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure Initiative . This is a very exciting time for me, Microsoft, our customers and the industry as a whole. We are on the verge of a computing revolution...