Attend a FREE three-day bootcamp for SPLA partners on high availability & disaster recovery (US ONLY) Join Microsoft and partners by registering today to attend a 3-day boot camp in Chicago, Atlanta, or Redmond (Dallas, Boston & Silicon Valley currently being scheduled), and learn about techniques...

Another Hosting Summit has come and gone, leaving us with the fond memories of slow motion magic tricks, jam sessions, cloud ninjas, and of course plenty of talk of servers, infrastructure and applications, and new business opportunities created by the broader business adoption of cloud. This was our...

This week brings me to Germany for WorldHostingDays, the world's largest hosting event – it’s not every day one gets to do business in a theme park, so I’m looking forward to a successful and fun event meeting Microsoft’s invaluable hosting and service provider community. ...

Last week was PDC for 2010. In Friday’s keynote, Bob Muglia announced a range of new services in the Windows Azure platform, part of which include the new Windows Azure Virtual Machine role. This functionality does the obvious thing – it allows developers and IT professionals to move existing...

by Monish Sood No, this is not a clue to figure out Lost, although some valuable information can be gleaned from these numbers. Today, Microsoft released its global SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010 , which investigates how small and midsize businesses (SMBs) across multiple segments fared during the...