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.

Hybrid Cloud What is a Hybrid Cloud? We keep hearing about “The Cloud” in IT, and how it is supposed to change things in the next few years. People keep using the terms, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud. What do these really...

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...

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 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...

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...

    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...

Getting Ready for The Cloud Well, you have heard all the hype, Cloud this, Cloud that, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, etc, etc, how the heck do you get ready? Your organization might not be ready to move 100% of your servers to someone else’s data center...

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: 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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Here are the slides for the current events I will be doing That is Module one  Overview Hyper-V and compare with VMware       This Module 2 that Kevin and I have been presenting     Last is the Test Prep for 70-659 To download...

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...

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...

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. ...

  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...

  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...

Welcome to Day 1 of 30 days of Cloud on Your Terms! Brian Lewis , Matt Hester , Kevin Remde and myself are going to take you through 30 days of Cloud discussion, from public to private to hybrid you are going to hear about it all from a technical aspect...

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...