Check out this great infographic from Marcus Austin of Firebrand Training. It appeared on Server Watch .

Last week, MVA – Microsoft’s free, online technical training site for IT Pros and Developers -- hit the 1 million user mark. MVA has a bunch of new content to help IT Pros with just-in-time learning and readiness skills across some of our...

Attendees are eager to learn about sessions at MMS this year. We’re happy to announce the session catalog will be available on February 6th ! Check the MMS site then to get full detail on over 140 technical training sessions offered at MMS with...

We are pleased to announce that Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 is now available for download. FIM 2010 R2 SP1 provides a number of improvements as well as additional platform support for the latest Microsoft platforms...

Can upgrading your server operating system improve your IT efficiency? You bet it can. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting is now available which uses their Total Economic Impact methodology to explore the potential costs and benefits...

MMS is tailored specifically to IT Professionals and provides some of the deepest level of technical training Microsoft has to offer. Attendees will learn from industry experts while attending 300 and 400 level sessions, and instructor-led and self-paced...

Looking back at the so-called Infrastructure-as-a-Service announcement Oracle made a few weeks ago, I’ve been wondering if marketing in other industries might adopt the same approach to jump on the cloud bandwagon. Looking to rent a large new flat...

My oldest son started high school this fall. As you can probably imagine, there was a bit of anxiety in our household in the days leading up to the start of school. After all, the first year of high school is a big milestone, and he didn’t know...

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...

I am really looking forward to this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, April 8-12, 2013. MMS is a very exciting time of year. It’s an opportunity for Microsoft to share some its...

As a follow up to his first conversation with guest Rand Morimoto of Convergent Computing, Joel Sider, Senior Marketing Manager, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, continues his discussion of best practices when implementing virtualization and private...

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...

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...

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...

This week CRN named Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 to its annual Products of the Year list, which recognizes the best products evaluated by the CRN Test Center in 2012. Earlier this year, CRN recognized capabilities in System Center 2012 that...

Hi, I’m Joel Sider, Senior Marketing Manager, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. Following the Windows Server 2012 launch this past fall, we’re seeing great interest from many people who are evaluating the product and looking for best...

When the winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy bore down ferociously on New York City, Microsoft partner WorkITsafe helped two customers prepare with Windows Server 2012 and the built-in Hyper-V Replica feature. As a result, their IT systems experienced...

Experience the latest technology solutions at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). This year we’ll be increasing our technical expertise through deep hands-on technical training, sharing of best practices, and interaction with innovators and pioneers...

The Cloud OS is Microsoft’s vision for providing customers with a consistent platform for infrastructure, applications and data that spans their datacenter, service provider datacenters, and the Microsoft public cloud. Windows Server 2012 and Windows...

Recently we came across the updated VMware cost per application calculator and discovered what our customers and partners have been telling us all along – VMware vSphere 5.1 costs more than Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 combined. And...

In a previously published blog on enterprise application performance , we’ve talked about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V’s ability to support your various tier-1 and 2 server application workloads in virtualized environments. The great news is...

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...

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 ...

We hope you are enjoying all the industry buzz surrounding the Sept. 4 release of Windows Server 2012 and the unveiling of our Cloud OS vision . Amidst all of the excitement and noise, we wanted to call your attention to this informative article by respected...

I recently blogged about some of the positive sentiments and comments Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V has been receiving from the press and recently surveyed customers, as well as the sharp uptick in deployments. As customer adoption grows for Windows Server...