Good afternoon everyone, I apologize for the delay, here the questions I got from the camp in Houston The slide deck is at the end of the post.  Thanks to Keith Mayer and Yung Chou for the help on some of questions.  Q: How do I license SQL...

Go Buckeyes, Best Damn Band in the Land!

Welcome to today’s post and my last official post in the series. For this post I chose a topic near and dear to my heart: Automation! Hopefully, this is near and dear to your heart as well! The more we can automate and provision allows to...

Check it out! Check out Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 and the new accessories at the Microsoft Store or a retailer near you beginning 22 October. Learn more on the Surface blog .

Okay so I had to at least promote my 3rd book, especially since we have Windows Server 2012 R2 is just around corner arriving on October 18th.  For this book I was yet again joined by my fantastic co-author Chris Henley for this book.

Here is a great video a good friend of my John Savill did on the history of Hyper-V and what we have with Windows Server 2012 R2

Well I went running again in Disney and had a great time!  I got to complete the inaugural Dumbo Double Dare.  I had a lot of fun running the 10K and the 1/2, and like always Disney did not disappoint.  After the marathon in January, I really needed this run!  Enjoy my recap and some of the revelations I had after the run!

Research has shown that approximately 65% to 70% of organizations today have more than one hypervisor deployed. This presents a large opportunity for IT Professionals to increase their technical differentiation and value in the IT marketplace by supporting...

Storage is one the main key factors we look at when trying to improve our virtualization environments.  It is also probably one of the most costly, not only from a $$$ perspective but also a performance perspective.  I know a lot of you have made large investments in your storage solutions.  Especially if you are running a lot of virtualization workloads.  So in the post today, I briefly talk about one of the supported storage capabilities called Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) which is essentially the same thing as VAAI.

Coming to a town near you, our four IT Pro Evangelists in the US Central Region ( Brian Lewis , Keith Mayer ,  Kevin Remde and me ) are delivering free, in-person, hands-on learning (otherwise known as “IT Camps”) from now through mid-October. Here...

Happy NFL opening week everyone!  Welcome to my annual post and by now most of you will already know what one of my predictions will be.  We will save that for later. 

We all have servers that we need to quickly deploy into our environments.  Especially in today’s datacenters, we are deploying more and more virtualization hosts to run our virtualized workloads.  In today's post I take a look at both Microsoft's and VMware's bare metal deployment technologies.  Take a look at where we are currently at and where we are headed with a quick peak at Windows Server 2012 R2.

In today’s post I am going to talk about applications and Independent Software Vendors (ISV).  This is all about the applications that run and are supported in the respective virtualization platforms. To be honest, the arguments from either side...