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Hello Readers, welcome to the 4th and final post in this series on deploying the example VMM Service Template forSharePoint 2013 to your Microsoft private cloud. To recap where we’ve been: Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 1) Introduction...

Trying to decide which sessions to attend at the 2013 Microsoft Management Summit ?  There are a lot of great options this year, and here are ten reasons we think you should check out the sessions hosted by the authors of the Building Clouds blog… You’ll get to learn all about the Fundamentals of...

Wow! Time sure does fly. It seems like last year’s TechEd was only yesterday. Now we’re coming up to the 2012 TechEd season and we’re ramping up some great private cloud architecture content for TechEd in both Orlando and Amsterdam. If you’re interested in private cloud architecture and foundational...

If you haven’t read any of Kristian Nese’s work, then you’re in for a treat! Kristian is a Microsoft MVP and an accomplished cloud computing professional who really groks the Microsoft cloud . Kristian has a unique ability to separate the wheat from the chaff and get to what’s important and interesting...

As I made clear in my two talks at TechDays 2012 in Belgium this week, private cloud computing is all about providing services to the consumers of your cloud infrastructure. This service providers approach is critical since in the future you, as a member of your corporate IT department, will be in direct...

As I’ve mentioned in other blog posts, private cloud provides you an opportunity to “reset” your datacenter. When you look at your enterprise network today, did it really grow the way you wanted it to? Is it managed and operated in the way that you would have ideally designed it? Or, does it suffer from...

Happy Monday private cloud architecture blog fans! We start the week on a good foot with a great contribution from one of our private cloud architecture thought leaders – Vincent Montalbano. Vincent is doing a series called “Journey to the Private Cloud” and he’s going over the key architectural issues...

It’s great to see those of you in the private cloud community stepping up to the plate and contributing articles to the private cloud blog! We in the infancy of cloud computing and we’re all trying to ramp up and learn what private cloud is about, what advantages we gain from private cloud, and how to...

Hey Private Cloud Architecture fans, I’ve got some great news – the Private Cloud Solutions Hub is now live and ready for you to check it out. Our goal for the Private Cloud Solutions Hub is to give you one place where you can find all the private cloud architectural information you need to optimize...

Cloud computing makes a lot of promises in the areas of increased flexibility and agility, potential cost savings, and competitive advantages for developers so that they can stand up an infrastructure quickly and efficiently to enable then to develop the software to drive business success. There are...

The Private Cloud blog is all about community and we’re happy to say that we have a number of people from the community stepping up to the plate to share their knowledge about private cloud here. This week we are treated to a great post by Vincent Montalbano on the importance of the Operations Layer...

A recurring theme in our discussions about cloud computing is that cloud computing is all about the app and service delivery. While we all think we’re providing a service to our users, our focus in a traditional data center is to keep the lights running and a byproduct of those running lights is the...

Private Cloud networks have network security requirements similar to those seen on traditional LAN based datacenters. You need network segmentation, you need to be able to exert access controls between virtual machines, between virtual machines and machines on the corporate network and the Internet,...