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After 5.5 years, I am leaving Microsoft. When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market.  I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for about a month, because the idea that Microsoft producing its own backup solution could change how...

Good morning, all. Keith Combs and Chris Henley run a weekly ‘radio call-in show’ called Talk TechNet – and this week, they asked me to talk about DPM (2010 and 2012). You can listen in, live or afterwards, at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032485880 Keith & Chris –...

If you are coming to the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 next week, you have some great opportunities to learn more about Data Protection Manager. We have four breakout sessions with DPM.  I will be at all four talks but am sharing the stage this year with some great SMEs from the DPM community...

Last week, Microsoft held TechReady 12 for our internal sales and field teams.  This was an exciting event because we gave them a sneak peak at the very cool technologies and sessions that we will delivering publicly at MMS 2011 next month.   For the products that I am blessed to support...

Today (actually yesterday) marks five years for me at Microsoft.   It’s been an amazing adventure so far and as usual for anniversaries, it seems like both yesterday and a lifetime ago that I started. At the time, I was a Microsoft MVP in File System and Storage technologies – which is the...

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I really enjoy giving sessions at TechEd – and the international events are great for giving me different perspectives on bandwidth, regulatory compliance, etc.  Over the past two weeks, I gave 6 breakout sessions ( AU sessions & NZ sessions ), did a few podcasts, press interviews, etc. In fact...

Am back in Auckland for my third TechEd !   This promises to be a great week, so here is where you can catch me and hear more about DPM 2010: Monday @ 14:55 – SVR215 – Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010, Part 1: Technical Introduction Why is Microsoft in the backup business...

This week, the OpsMgr team added two new items that are hopefully of interest to some of y’all. A new Technical Product Manager … me !!   I am very excited to be taking on OM!  Yes, I will still have DPM and SCE roles, but with those products wholly launched, am looking forward to joining...

Am getting ready for Wood Badge in a few weeks, which is a training program for adult leaders within Boy Scouts.  Per a BSA website: Reflecting the best of nearly a century of Scouting experience, the course draws upon the most current leadership models used by corporate America, academic circles...

Woo Hoo – am very excited to confirm that I will be returning for my third TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand next month. TechEd Australia (August 24-27) I have at least three confirmed sessions: Protecting Application Servers with DPM 2010 - This session will focus on protecting and recovering...

I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend ! It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours).  :-) It is due out on July 26th and is available for pre-order...

This video has nothing to do with Microsoft, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Essentials 2010, Boy Scouts or Video Games. But if you are a dad (or know one) … then this video is worth 2.5 minutes of your day: Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo .

In May, I am happy to hang out with my friends from Iron Mountain in two events: Tomorrow, May 20, I will be at the Minneapolis Iron Mountain facility. Similar to last month, when I went spoke at their Chicago event ( see blog post DPM in Chicago ), we will be talking about DPM 2010 and IRM’s...

There is something very surreal in finding your name on Amazon.com … so I just had to share it.    Description (from publisher): Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments! Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is...

  Today has been a very cool day that caused me to be introspective – so I wanted to share a little of myself with you. Earlier today, I did my first post as one of the “System Center Expert” contributors to Microsoft’s blog on the “Because it’s Everybody’s Business” initiative. The blog post is...

When you start putting a whole bunch of advertizing graphics on it.   This is a relatively meaningless post, but I needed to try out some links and thought it was humorous when I got done.   And even if you aren’t in the US, just take a few moments on Thursday to randomly think of someone...

As a warm-up for Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Forum happening next week in Berlin, I am headed over a few days early with a detour to one of my favorite cities – London. On Friday, November 6, a System Center powerhouse of a partner, Inframon , will will hosting a one-day SC event called “War on Costs”. We...

With a big Texas “ Howdy ” coming out to all of the Aussies and New Zealanders in the house! If you are interested in backing up your Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Windows file or Hyper-V environments, then you ought to be looking at System Center Data Protection Manager . And if you are attending...

This has been an exciting month for me and DPM on two fronts: First, for Fiscal Year 2010 (starting last week at Microsoft), I am re-focusing exclusively on DPM within System Center and will not be also driving Windows Server file services or Windows Storage Server.   It was very cool to be...

Hello friends, First and foremost, thank you to all of those that read this blog.  It’s been an enjoyable way for me to share information (and my opinions) and I hope you’ve enjoyed them as well. Easily one of the most cool things that happens to me when meeting customers and partners is to have...

I have a full line-up for Tech-Ed 2009 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Sp1 – May 11-15, 2009. May 11, 2:45-4:00 PM VIR04-INT Why Virtualization and Data Protection are Better Together May 12, 10:15-11:30 AM MGT204 Technical Introduction to Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1 May 12, 1:00...

The only thing more fun than Las Vegas in the Springtime has got to be the DPM sessions at the Microsoft Management Summit 2009 (MMS-2009.com) – April 27 – May 1st. If you are coming – check out our DPM sessions: MONDAY         April 27 @ 1:30PM SO20 breakout session Ray Maker Designing...

Earlier this week, I sat down with my friends at Total Wine to talk about how they are using System Center.    It's one of the first times that I've gotten to talk about technology and 'wine' instead of 'whine'.  In fact, as part of my research to be fully prepared for the TechNet...

This interview is actually a few months old - recorded at IT Forum in November 2007, but I recently found it online and wanted to share it with you. Its about 10 minutes long and talks about what are core features and unique deliverables with DPM 2007. Hope you enjoy it. Click here to watch - IT Forum...