In today’s article Brian Lewis talks about the things he learned while we build out our private cloud deployment.  You can read about his story at: Cloud on Your Terms Part 17 of 30: Lessons learned from our Cloud Build Out Tomorrow I will be writing...

As most of you know I am not much of a gamer. Even working for Microsoft I didn’t have an Xbox for the longest time.  Well my kids have had one for a couple of years now, they love it. Kinect has totally changed the game, hard to think it’s been...

Today’ entry is from Kevin Remde. He talks about our build out of Private Cloud in a data center and some of the lessons learned from our experience. You can read his full post here:  Cloud on Your Terms Part 16 of 30 Where should your DC go?   ...

If you remember back to part 2 of this 30 part series, we defined Hybrid Cloud as just about anything you want it to do, it’s really a combination of Public, Private, or Traditional IT. When we think about Private Cloud and combined with Traditional IT...

Kevin Remde brings us part 14 of our series with a Monday report on Orchestrator part of System Center.  Yes Orchestrator was formally known as Opalis.  It is the product that allows you to create, test and perform that automation you need on...

Over the next few weeks I am doing several events with www.angelbeat.com .  They include cities of Baton Rouge, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso. Below is the slide deck I plan on using, if you want the slides, full screen then then open...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Microsoft’s end-to-end service-management product, is your best choice for Windows environments. It works seamlessly with Microsoft infrastructure servers, such as Windows Server, and application servers, such...

In part 12 of our 30 part series we have invited a Microsoft Partner Veeam to join the fun. Veeam has great products that help System Center, so go check out their post at:  The Cloud on Your Terms Part 12 of 30: One Big Happy Private Cloud  ...

November 11 is a special day to celebrate all those that keep America a Free place to live.  The company I work for really appreciates our military.   We did two things yesterday that didn’t make the main stream media that I want to point...

Good Friday, Veteran’s Day!  Today is part 11 in our series.  Brian Lewis writes on his blog , about System Center Virtual Machine Manager  and how it works with virtual machines.  Not only Microsoft Hyper-V but other vendors also...

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist John Weston interviews Microsoft Virtualization MVP, Anil Desai to the show. Tune in as they discuss cloud computing’s impact to IT, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, as well...

In today’s part 10 of our series Kevin Remde talks about building his private cloud lab environment  at home. He talks about the hardware needed, free download software, and what parts he wanted to get up and running. The post is here:  Cloud...

  Today’s post comes to us from Brian Lewis   His post The Cloud on Your Terms part 9 of 30:What hardware is needed for a Datacenter? Lessons learned from a software company    In this post he talks about our extremely large data centers...

I thought this blog post hit yesterday, something when wrong somewhere.  Probably my fault, I was presenting yesterday in Dallas for an 8 hour event at our Microsoft office, then I had a 3.5 hour flight in storms out to California for Cloud Expo...

I am in sunny California this week at Cloud Expo 2011.  Today I am an attendee, listening to all of the presentations about Cloud.  Man it’s amazing all the companies that have solutions for Private Cloud.  Everyone still defines Cloud...

  To promote the release of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” our marketing guys build a 6 stories high Windows Phone in New York City’s Harold Square.   Check out this time lapse video of how they built the phone.

In today’s post, Brian Lewis shows us how to install Hyper-V with a great screen cast. You can see his post The Cloud on you Terms part 8 of 30: Installing Hyper-v Screencast   This works the same on all three versions of Windows Server 2008 R2. ...

Yep on a Sunday Matt Hester   gives us part 6 of our 30 part series, yea we are doing every day in November. http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/archive/2011/11/06/the-cloud-on-your-terms-part-6-of-30-what-cloud-goodies-can-i-find-in-windows-server...

TechNet Video: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, What’s really the Truth? Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 In this session we will demo the new Office 365. We will show you what the new Microsoft Data Centers are like Inside, why they are 71...

TechNet Video: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Transforming the Way People Communicate Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 Microsoft Lync™ Server 2010 promises to transform the way people will communicate across the PC, Web and phone, making traditional communications...

TechNet Video: Enabling a Dynamic Data Center with System Center 2012 Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 John Weston, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist discusses Hyper-V and Virtualization. He also talks about Private Cloud and what Microsoft has to offer.

    TechNet Video: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Interoperability: Voice, Video, Conferencing, IM, and Presence Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 The communications industry is undergoing a transforming from proprietary hardware-based communications...

Today Matt Hester writes our 5th part of our November series of blog entries.  You can find the post here:   The Cloud on Your Terms Part 5 of 30: Are your Servers Ready For the Cloud?   Matt even had a webcast in his blog that talks...

  Are you ready for the Holiday Season with Kinect?  I sure am looking forward to it. I wish it did everything in this video

Welcome to part 4 of our 30 part series. Oh Yea, Happy Friday. Man it’s been a busy week, and it’s not over.  Tomorrow we do the Bsides DFW security conference That should be fun.   This week I have been traveling around Texas with Kevin Remde...