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Register now for a free online live Jump Start presented by Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) on Windows Azure for IT Professionals on May 16. Through numerous scenarios and demos, Microsoft Lead Azure Technical Evangelist David Tesar and Azure Group Technical Product Manager David Aiken will help you...

Well, he is ex-Microsoft, so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that Maritz’s thoughts run alongside ours. Nevertheless, when he points to “web giants” who “have the ability to store and process large amounts of data” and “know how to deploy and operate software...

I’m an avid tennis fan, and with the Australian Open into its second week, it will come as no surprise (least of all to my wife) that tennis is top of mind for me right now. I recently read an article on the evolution of tennis racquets over the history of the game. It turns out that the availability...

On January 15th, Microsoft announced several new products and services that continue to drive momentum against our Cloud OS vision . In an accompanying blog post , Microsoft vice president Michael Park says that Microsoft is uniquely positioned to bring you into the cloud era because our products and...

Today we announced the final release of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, which helps deliver on Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision to provide customers with one consistent platform for infrastructure, apps, and data – spanning customer datacenters, hosting service provider datacenters, and the...

I’m seeing an interesting trend taking hold in organizations, which is the increasing implementation of multiple hypervisors within IT infrastructures. The reasons you, as decision makers in IT, typically cite for adopting this heterogeneous approach vary. They often include the desire to support...

As you have likely seen by now, every group at Microsoft that touches aspects of our datacenter solutions has been asked to optimize for our new Cloud OS strategy. Specifically, this means delivering a common set of technologies across a variety of deployment platform. This can be a customer’s...

Today is a great day in my organization as we’re able to publically announce the release of Workflow Manager 1.0, which is now available for download . Workflow Manager 1.0 allows you to host and manage long-running Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) applications. Workflow Manager was designed to...

Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple – learn more here: http://aka.ms/Oct16Announce

As part of the product management team for Windows Server & System Center, it’s been very energizing to see the excitement in the community around the 2012 releases of Windows Server and System Center. I just came back last week from conducting launch events in Southeast Asia for Windows Server...

It’s sometimes easier to think about cloud computing in all or nothing terms – move everything into the cloud or leave everything as-is, on-premises. But, as most know, the emerging reality is more of a hybrid approach, combining both cloud and on-premises resources. Windows Server 2012 and...

At Microsoft we have the opportunity to test and operate our software platform in our own datacenters at scale by running over 200 cloud applications with some of the largest online services in the world such as Bing, Hotmail, Xbox Live, Windows Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online. This experience...

Today at 9:40 AM PDT, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), will participate in an onstage fireside chat moderated by Derrick Harris, GigaOm senior writer, at the GigaOm Structure event. Tune in to hear Nadella discuss cloud trends, Microsoft’s cloud strategy...