The second of three IT Pro resource guides explaining key IT capabilities necessary to move from one of four defined levels of IT services to the next more efficient and streamlined level of services is now available. The Core Infrastructure Optimization...

In a move to provide more “how-to” resources for IT Professionals related to Core Infrastructure Optimization, the Solutions Accelerator team at Microsoft has published the first in a series of Resources Guides. The Core Infrastructure Optimization Implementer...

Core Infrastructure Optimization will be covered at the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), March 26-30 in San Diego, CA. MMS is the premier technical event of the year for IT professionals, covering the latest management products from Partners...

Hello folks, This is a good one... Peter Weill, Director of MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), and Sandy Sharma , Chief Executive Officer , Advaiya, will be presenting next Tuesday, February 13 on the Microsoft Infrastructure...

This came across my desk recently… Virtualization Web Seminars will help you sharpen your skills, build your business, and increase your profitability. Attend the up-to-date Virtualization Web Seminars where our Microsoft experts will inform...

Next week Core Infrastructure Optimization (Core IO) will be showcased at IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, November 14-17, 2006. IT Forum is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference designed to provide IT professionals with technical training, information and...

Virtualization is one of the key technologies redefining how datacenters will be architected in the future. As of Monday, November 6, 2006, Microsoft announced the VHD Test Drive Program, which provides customers with an enhanced server-based software...

Almost half of all unplanned service outages happen because of system configuration mistakes or oversights. With that in mind, several tools are available from Microsoft to help you optimize your infrastructure and keep configuration issues under control...

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now Series Tune into a special webcast 10-part series detailing steps on how you can grow your IT organization into a more flexible and integrated system. As IT organizations have become more geographically dispersed and individual...

On July 31, Microsoft, along with 9 other vendors, made a significant announcement ...the standardization of a modeling language to be used in describing computing resources. The new draft specification, called SML (Service Modeling Language) , is...

The concept of Infrastructure Optimization is one that is complex and challenging to any organization. While technology is a major part of the maturity of IO and its supporting capabilities, there are also 2 other areas an organization needs to contend...

Hello and welcome to the Infrastructure Optimization blog. I hope that it will serve as an active two-way dialog about the key issues you face in driving your IT infrastructure forward. I think we all realize that there is far too much complexity in environments...