One of the things that can help provide a differentiator in your career is certification.  Especially with all of the new technologies centered around today’s technology.  You may be wondering where to start, well Brian provides some great and...

Quiz #3  opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST 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...

In today’s post we have Net/IQ talk about how do you get to the cloud.  Hopefully during this series you have wanted to hop on in and try virtualization.  Maybe you are taking a look at comparing your existing virtualization environment with...

If anyone has a spare $650,000k laying around, I would like one.  Full article here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/20/the-gadget-show-builds-an-fps-simulator-that-shoots-back-video/ Watch the video (about 17 minutes) amazing technology:.

Welcome to my personal favorite part of the series, part 28!  Really the series would have been incomplete without a part of the series focused on PowerShell!  As many of you may know PowerShell is one the great tools we can use as administrators...

Today we are going to take a look at another example of  a hybrid cloud.  In a few of parts of the series we talked about hybrid clouds: The Cloud on Your Terms part 2 of 30: What is a Hybrid Cloud? The Cloud on Your Terms Part 15 of 30: Hybrid...

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer I have had the privileged to meet and work with some fantastic individuals.  I have also been part counselor when I have had folks come to my class worried about jobs, from folks worried about learning Active Directory...

In today’s post John   takes a look at one of the newest cloud technologies, Windows Intune.  John gives a brief tour of Windows Intune and hopefully you will get some ideas on how the tool can help you. Check out John’s post here: The Cloud...

In today’s post John takes another look at the hybrid cloud.  This time he takes a look at using the public cloud technologies with on premise tools and techniques.   He really takes a great look at the technology from an application development...

Today Kevin got to talk an interesting topic for an IT Pro: Windows Azure.  Now I know what your thinking, wait a second that topic is just for developers.  Well maybe in the early on stages of Azure it may have been.   However now...

In today’s post Kevin takes a fun look at his private cloud.  Wait not just his private cloud, but his private private cloud.  Almost like double secret probation. In the post Kevin does a great little screencast showing off his private private...

In today’s post Brian takes a look at how he has setup his current environment.  Brian wanted to be able to setup an actual physical SAN using some free software (with the iscsi target I talked about on part 19: The Cloud on Your Terms Part 19 of...

One of the best trips I got to take this year was to the Microsoft San Antonio Data Center.  They say everything is bigger in TX and man they are not kidding!  I was amazed by the amount of technology and respect for electricity.  ...

As cool as writing and working with this series has been.  I love to talk about technology, especially technology that can help save you time and money.  When you look at the System Center products and a tool like PowerShell how can you not...

As you can see from the last two posts from Kevin and Brian , we are sharing some of our own personal experiences from working with our datacenters. In today’s post John takes us a quick journey to our data center we are building.  It is an interesting...

In today’s post Brian starts to share some of his insights and experiences he has had on building out a private cloud.  especially all the fun he had with SIDs.   Check out Brian’s Post here: The Cloud on Your Terms Part 17 of 30: Lessons Learned...

In todays post, and for the next 4 posts we are going to share with you our experiences in building out our local datacenter in California.  Kevin does a great job of writing up a post on where to put the DC.  It all boils down with a little...

Good day everyone!  In today’s post John takes another look into the Hybrid cloud but this time in conjunction with private cloud.  In Part 2, we looked at Hybrid cloud.  In this installment John takes a look at how you can leverage cloud...

What were you doing 10 years ago, I was taking a day of vacation and saving the planet!  Looks like I have another day of vacation in my near future!

Conducting today’s post is the musically talented Kevin.  He really is an awesome singer.  Today he talks about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).   Specifically he talks about what he have today in Opalis and what is coming in the...

Quiz #2 (sorry I missed quiz one I was OOF)  opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST 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...

Today John takes a quick tour of System Center Operations Manager.  He takes a quick tour of SCOM 2007 and talks about the release candidate for SCOM 2012 .      Check out John’s post here: The Cloud on Your Terms Part 13 of 30...

In today’s post we have a guest to our series: Microsoft Partner Veeam .  They have also been joining us for our events around the country for a list of the events in my region take a look here: Register Now TechNet Events Present: A Day with Microsoft...

In today’s post  Brian takes a look at SCVMM and a lot of the many reasons why this tool is so great for your virtualization environment.   Notice I did not say, just Hyper-V.  One of the great things about SCVMM is it provides a Heterogeneous...

Sometimes working with all of these technologies around the cloud you want to know how is that done?  Eventually you get to a point where you want to see what is behind the magic curtain.  In today’s post Kevin takes you on a tour of have he...