As lot of you know I love to run, and know what it takes to complete a marathon.  As you might imagine my thoughts just go out to everyone affected by the events in Boston.  You also may have seen I fell in love with my new shoes from a great...

My teammate Brian posted a great article on Hyper-V replica and Riverbed.  The article takes a look at a whitepaper we recently released.  The whitepaper shows up to 98% reduction in sync traffic for your replica server with an average of 70...

Being able to protect your Private cloud is one of the more important things you can do.  With so many moving parts how do you approach this.  If you are leveraging System Center 2012 for the many other components of your infrastructure, than I would highly recommend you look at Data Protection Manager (DPM)for two reasons. 

1. DPM is designed to backup and maintain your Microsoft workloads, and leverages the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on your servers.
2. If you bought System Center 2012, you already own DPM.  When you buy System Center 2012 you get all the System Center components including DPM.

While DPM can protect a variety of workloads from SQL, SharePoint, Exchange bulk of your of the workloads in your cloud is going to virtualized.  DPM is fantastic at protecting your Hyper-V hosts and their virtual guests that are running on them.  Today’s post will focus on the protecting your virtual infrastructure.   

In Part 3 of the Windows Azure IaaS series I discuss with Keith Mayer common scenarios in which IT Pros may use Windows Azure as a hybrid solution between their on-premise and cloud service needs. Tune in as we discuss disaster recovery and storage as well as how to migrate your SharePoint environment to a VM running on Azure.

When you first start working with provision your private cloud, you will need to learn how to provision the physical hardware or bare metal of your environment.  Learning how to provision bare metal systems allows you to deploy physical systems to...

Here is part 2 of the Windows Azure IaaS series and in this episode I take a look at the top Windows Azure Virtual Machines FAQs and common gotchas with Hari Dogiparthi

I kick off a 8 part Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) series and in today’s episode he welcomes Chief Technical Evangelist for the Cloud, Brian Prince to the show as they give us an overview of Microsoft’s IaaS platform, aka Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Tune in as

I had the privilege to sit down and talk with Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder to talk about Windows Azure IaaS .   We chatted about the overall capabilities to configure and deploy VMs, security functionalities and recommendations during the migration...

When you start to think of building a private cloud into your datacenters, you might naturally think you need run out and buy a SAN.  While you still may want to go buy a SAN, with Windows Server 2012 you do not necessarily need to.  In Windows Server 2012 there has been a tremendous amount of improvement done to the storage capabilities.  Specifically you now can have continuously available file shares on your cluster servers.  This is mainly due to the new SMB 3.0 protocol built-in to the server, it really has made storage a first class citizen in Windows Server 2012.  So for todays post I am going to take a look at how to build a Windows Server 2012 storage environment using Storage Pools and inexpensive Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) disks to provide the necessary storage backend for your private cloud infrastructure. 

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