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Understanding the Costs of Virtualization and Management Operations
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over 3 years ago
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Mario L. Juarez
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Taking a look at virtualization technologies and the benefits it brings to customers can help build an understanding of some of the potential areas cloud computing can also help businesses. Cloud computing takes the concept of virtualization to a whole...
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What Kind of Cloud is Your Business Looking to Become?
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over 3 years ago
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When you were a child, chances are you looked up into the sky and wondered what kind of cloud you were looking at or what cloud you want to be. Back then knowing what type of a cloud you were looking at boiled down to a three main choices...
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Is Windows Azure the Answer? Yes!
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over 3 years ago
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chenley
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The world of IT is changing, again. This time we are looking at a change in the way we think about hosting operating systems, applications, and services. In the traditional model all three of those things were hosted on a companies local server...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Software Usage Tracker part 6
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over 3 years ago
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Welcome to part 6 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010). The new version, MAP 5.0, has some exciting new features to help with discovery and software usage. In this...
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Microsoft Windows Azure: The Cloud is Growing and Getting Brighter
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over 3 years ago
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As we have been looking at Azure for the past 12 months, it is beginning to get more and more features and the title of Mary Jo Foley’s article says it all: Microsoft's Windows Azure: What a difference a year makes Microsoft Windows Azure has added several...
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The IT Investigators Interview Microsoft Corporate VP and CIO, Tony Scott
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs and I have a podcast show called the IT Investigators . We like to have fun interviewing a variety of guests on wide ranging topics and this episode is no exception. So Keith calls me one day and says he has setup and interview...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Heterogeneous Server Environment Inventory part 5
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over 3 years ago
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Matt_Hester
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Welcome to part 5 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010). The new version, MAP 5.0, has some exciting new features to help with discovery and software usage. In this...
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Top 15 Windows Server Innovations In the Past 15 Years
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over 3 years ago
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chenley
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Windows IT Pro is celebrating its 15 year anniversary this year. Congratulations! That’s a major achievement in our industry. As part of a series Michael Otley wrote a post for the Windows It Pro blog called “Top 15 Windows Server Innovations...
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Switching To Microsoft Virtualization Expected To Net More Than $3 Million In Savings
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over 3 years ago
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Mario L. Juarez
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I've been away on vacation this month so it's been a while since I posted, but I wanted to share the story of a Fortune 500 customer I just came across that really helps demonstrate the potential savings of Microsoft virtualization over competitive...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Database Discovery for SQL Server part 4
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over 3 years ago
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Matt_Hester
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Welcome to part 4 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010). The new version, MAP 5.0, has some exciting new features to help with discovery and software usage. In this screencast...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Windows Server Consolidation part 3
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over 3 years ago
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Welcome to part 3 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010). The MAP toolkit has been around for years. MAP is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Office 2010 part 2
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over 3 years ago
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Matt_Hester
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Welcome to part 2 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010): The new version, MAP 5.0, has some exciting new features to help with discovery and software usage. In this screencast...
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Numbers!
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over 3 years ago
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chenley
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A few weeks ago now Frank Shaw made a post on the Microsoft blog. In his post he outlined some numbers around the performance of some of Microsoft’s key businesses. The numbers Frank put up are impressive by any standard. Various blogs...
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Windows Azure beats Google and Amazon in Cloud Response Time Tests
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over 3 years ago
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Mario L. Juarez
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Interesting story in last week's New York Times Bits column - a report on response times of the major cloud providers. Columnist Ashlee Vance asks the question: " How Fast Can Your Cloud Run? " For Windows Azure users, the answer is: faster than anyone...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0: Overview part 1
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over 3 years ago
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Welcome to part 1 of a 6 part series talking about a great FREE tool, which has released it’s 5th major version on Monday (7-12-2010): Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0! The MAP toolkit has been around for years. MAP is a powerful...
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Windows Azure Bringing Developers and IT Pro’s of the World Together
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over 3 years ago
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A lot of my posts have been focused on the IT Pro story of Microsoft Technologies. This post will be slightly different, and hopefully will help enhance communication with the developers in your organization. Some of you may be aware that we've been talking...
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Visual Reference of Key Hyper-V Technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2
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over 3 years ago
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Yung Chou
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Like the Windows Server 2008 R2 component poster , the Hyper-V poster is a great visual reference to better understand the key features and components of Hyper-V, and Microsoft virtualization solutions in general including: Architecture Virtual...
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Got Azure, Bing Maps do!
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over 3 years ago
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Matt_Hester
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When I think about Bing Maps as a consumer of driving directions I love it, as IT, server guy I amazed when I think about how much must go into the data center to make that work. Not only for my directions but also from a data center perspective...
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The Windows Azure Platform Appliance: Why, When and Where It Will Work for You
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over 3 years ago
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Mario L. Juarez
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It's bigger than a breadbox. And you probably won't be sticking it in your kitchen this summer. But make no mistake, the "appliance" that Microsoft announced at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference is not only a technical marvel, it's concrete...
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Seeing is Believing – Microsoft and Red Hat Collaborate
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over 3 years ago
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I’ll have to check Bing later for sightings…there must be a report of flying pigs…somewhere. Today Microsoft actually delivered a presentation at the Red Hat Summit ! I wouldn’t have believed it had I not been there (I was one of the presenters...
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TechEd 2010 Video Diary
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over 3 years ago
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Yung Chou
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Got back from TechEd 2010 with a great experience. I met some old friends, made some new, attended some great sessions, and loosened up a little… I mean a lot during the nights. Working hard form 8 AM to 6 PM everyday attending sessions and taking notes...
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TechEd Big Easy Recap
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over 3 years ago
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TechEd North America 2010 in New Orleans is now just a memory (well, and a pile of new t-shirts and other swag in a corner at home!). There was a great deal to see and learn last week, with much of the focus being on cloud (with and without Azure...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 announcements @ TechEd
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over 3 years ago
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Matt_Hester
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TechEd was a great experience and thank you to everyone, all 428 of you that decided to see Chris and I talk about the 10 hottest topics for Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrators. We hope you enjoyed the session and more importantly, if you chose...
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Microsoft VDI Licensing Primer
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over 3 years ago
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Yung Chou
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For VDI , Microsoft’s licensing model is VDI Standard and Premium Suites . These are great offerings and simplify the process to acquire Microsoft VDI. And in my view and for many customers, this is a cost-effective solution and I encourage IT decision...
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Cloud and Virtualization Play Big at TechEd and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
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over 3 years ago
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Oliver Rist
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Virtualizing the enterprise IT environment is a top goal for our customers, and therefore a top goal for Microsoft. Today, Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, presented the opening-day keynote at TechEd 2010 being held in New...
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