Multi-city east coast Azure series registration is now available! In this series we are focusing on Windows Azure, join us for a day of learning the new Microsoft Cloud. This is your opportunity to dive into different scenarios for ‘on-demand’ infrastructure with a Microsoft technical expert...

We have reached the end of our 3-part series, in today's session we de-provisioned the virtual machines and then performed a brief walk through of the cost analysis. You can review the slides here:

Join us for this three-part Webcast series designed to help you understand the true ROI for ‘on-demand’ infrastructure scenarios and walk away with real-world proof of concepts that you can implement in your production environment. Registration link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/click...

As promised, here is the recording to part 1 of our Live Webinar series: Building Virtual Machines in the Microsoft Cloud: Deployment to Cost Analysis. This series wraps up this Friday, so remember if you joined us to kick off your lab environment you wont want to miss the finale where we demo de-provisioning...

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) for IT Professionals Join us for Four Series of interactive weekly Webcasts designed to help you understand the true ROI for ‘on-demand’ infrastructure scenarios and walk away with real-world proof of concepts that you can implement in your production...

Are you virtualizing your servers? Yes, of course! Are you spending less time managing your servers as a result? Hmm … No! Server Virtualization is Great, But … Server virtualization has been a great set of technologies to reduce our capital expenses and some operating expenses by...

Windows #Azure Infrastructure as a Service has reached General Availability! Now is the time to begin thinking through how the Microsoft cloud can help you further your business as well as strengthen your professional skills. The full announcement can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure...

In this “Cloud Challenge”, IT Pros will spend a few minutes of their time to complete a couple easy tasks that gets them started with Windows Azure: Activate a FREE 90-Day Windows Azure Trial Subscription Build A Virtual Network on the Windows Azure Cloud Platform In exchange...

Hosted by CITPG as the biggest IT Pro community event every year in the Charlotte area, this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. We will have presentations from some of the nation’s top technology professionals (MVP’s and Microsoft Evangelists) on a variety of topics ranging...

Brian Lewis tackles an age old problem with a brilliantly fast and efficient solution. In his article he explains in a step-by-step fashion how to take a self-made golden image in one Azure account and quickly copy it to any Azure account for fast and easy deployment of the virtual machine, especially...

Part 14 of the Migration and Deployment series is live. In this article, Yung Chou discusses and gives step by step answers on the self service model and role based security: "One essential characteristics of cloud computing is a self-service mechanism. Both NIST SP 800-145 and Chou’s 5-3-2 Principle...

Part 13 of the Migration and Deployment Series is Live! "As IT architectures, methodologies, solutions, and cloud computing are rapidly converging, system management plays an increasingly critical role and has become a focal point of any cloud initiative. A system management solution now must identify...

Today's post in the Migration and Deployment series went live today via Harold Wong. "When Windows Azure first released, it was only available as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. The benefit of PaaS is that you (an organization, company, etc.) don’t have to worry about maintaining the server...

As part of our Migration and Deployment Series today we shift the focus to Hyper-V migrations. First let’s start with a chart on what is possible for upgrading in place: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions of Windows Server running Hyper-V are supported as either source or destination...

The game is simple, register, login, download, answer questions, earn points and prizes. The trivia questions are fun and some even have links to take you to the answers so there really is no excuse for not giving it a whirl. Enter now

Hey folks, I'm back from play time with Mickey and as it turns out my team started a new blog series while I was gone. :) February's series is about Migration and Deployment. From Windows 8 to System Center App Controller, we will be providing daily articles on these topics. The schedule(notice we spared...

Dan Stolts welcomes Chris Harney from the Virtualization Technology Users Group (VTUG) as they discuss how his user group community recently expanded their virtualization platform knowledge beyond VMware to now include Microsoft Hyper-V. Tune in as they chat about their transition from a VMware only...

Don Noonan is back this week with a fresh write up based on his work deploying customer applications into Windows Azure. By utilizing PowerShell he is able to provide these repeatable steps for deploying Active Directory into the virtual machines of Window Azure. Enjoy! ---Written by Don Noonan--...

There’s so many cool features to explore in the latest Windows infrastructure offerings that it’s hard to find time to explore all of them. Beginning February 8th, you can block time on a weekly basis between 10AM and 3PM Eastern Time to join a Virtual Study Hall and work through real-world...

For those wanting to understand the differences between PaaS(Platform as a Service) and IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service) in Windows Azure, this is a great article written by Bill Wilder. You can check it out here: http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2013/01/21/beyond-iaas-for-the-it-pro/ Also you can catch...

System Center Service Pack 1 (SP1) is here to help transform the datacenter and deliver on Microsoft's cloud OS vision. Download the free evaluation for 180 days, with no feature limits. System Center 2012 with SP1 works seamlessly with Windows Server 2012 to provide a management solution from the cloud...

Microsoft recently launched a new trivia game where you can play for prizes: DOWNLOAD, PLAY, WIN Download free software evaluations of the Cloud OS, the more you try the more you can win Play trivia, the more you play the better chances you have to win Win a chance for some excellent prizes...

In case you missed some of the 31 Days Cloud series...for the current running list of articles you can keep up or catch up here: http://virtuallycloud9.com/index.php/31-days-of-servers-in-the-cloud-series/

Today we cover which operating systems are supported in Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Public Cloud built for running virtual machines. At present Microsoft Azure currently supports multiple operating systems, and not only Microsoft solutions are in the list. Let’s take a look at the list and...

Want to play with Server 2012 but you don’t have the hardware readily available, well here’s your chance to do so for free. Windows Azure IaaS allows for the creation of virtual machines in the fastest public cloud service on the market today. To get started, simply sign up here . This will...