Big Data is a new term you hear all the time now about the Cloud or Cloud Computing. When you think in terms of the scale of the internet today and where the Cloud is going in the future dealing with extremely large volumes of Data will be important. ...

Wow, we made it, 30 blogs in 30 days!  What a team effort by Kevin Remde, Matt Hester, and Brian Lewis.. You think it’s easy when you sign up, but when you realized weekends, and holidays in November, to get 30 post out was hard.  We hope you...

How does $20K investment to get your idea off the ground? Add in all the tools you need, and even 3 months of office space to get it done.  Yep, we have a program called The Kinect Accelerator as part of our BizSpark program. 10 Startup companies...

With the Private Cloud being so new, finding resources is always good and I want to share. Lately I have been going to www.systemcentercentral.com a bunch lately.  It is a great source of information on our System Center products.  Many of our...

Here is a video showing off some of the new features in Skydrive we announced Yesterday. Enjoy!!

  My Co-worker Yung Chou   has done a bunch of work lately online about Cloud Computing. I thought I would share those resources here with you.   Chou’s Theories of Cloud Computing: The 5-3-2 Principle System Center Virtual Machine Manager...

  Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then your ready for Round 1 of the Imagine Cup 2012 IT Challenge: You...

Are you ready for the Cloud? Are you working with a Microsoft Partner?  Do you need a tool that can help you assess where you are and how to get ready for the Cloud?  Well I have the app for you.  This is for both Partners and Customers...

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 29, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the first major service update for Microsoft Office 365 , the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes. The service will also be available to try...

  December 1st  DFW IT Professionals   6PM at Microsoft offices Dallas(Las Colinas)  www.dfwitprofessionals.com   I will be presenting Office 365 December 5th Houston www.angelbeat.com I will be speaking on Cloud and Office...

In today’s post we have asked Net/IQ to talk about how to get to the Cloud. Ready to try the Cloud now with Hyper-V? Go download everything you need from http://aka.ms/evaluations Well in today’s post Net/IQ gives you one possible answer to that question...

My co-worker Chris Avis (does what I do but in Washington State area) did a great interview with Mark Minasi.  Mark is a well know keynote speaker that does many talks about Microsoft Technologies.  Chris broke up the interviews into two sections...

Yes this is my main blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/jweston Approaching 45 post this month, it’s been busy.  Do you know I have other blogs out there?  Recently I spoke at Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley and as part of that they gave me a blog...

In today’s part of our series Matt Hester talks about PowerShell, yep his favorite subject. He has even written a book about Powershell .  He talks about how PowerShell can help you manage your Windows Azure deployments in the Cloud.  He also...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Matt Hester...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Matt Hester...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Kevin Remde...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Kevin Remde...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: a week ago on...

What in the world is this thing called Windows Intune? Windows Intune is PC management & security in the cloud Perform security and management tasks remotely from a web-based console. Help secure PCs from malware and virus threats with endpoint protection...

  In part 2 of this 30 part series we introduced the topic of Hybrid Cloud.  That is the combining of Public, Private, and or traditional IT into a system that works for you. One of the great Hybrid examples I like to talk about is internally...

Back in September the team I am on got to visit our “Cloud” Data Center in San Antonio, Texas.  Now they wouldn’t let us take pictures of the insides, but I have to tell you about some of the things I saw.  You have all seen Data Centers, raised...

Today Matt Hester talks about Networking when you are building your Private Cloud in his great post here:  The Cloud on Your Terms Part 19 of 30:All about the Networking I love his picture of a wiring closet.  You just have to laugh when you...

On the MSPress blog I was readying http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2011/08/17/free-ebook-microsoft-office-365-connect-and-collaborate-virtually-anywhere-anytime.aspx Great news on a free ebook(ok really a PDF) on how to get the most out...

So day three now of lessons learned within this blog series. Kevin started us out with his lessons here , then yesterday Brian Lewis told us what he learned, and now today is my turn.  Part of this post originally appeared on my blog October 5 ,...