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Private Clouds: Believe it or not?

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:01 PM by davidzi
Recently there has been some healthy debate around the validity of “private clouds” and whether such a construct is new or just a different name for virtualization and automated provisioning, i.e. a marketecture. In this corner for the anti-Private Cloud Read More...
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Cloud Computing: Taxes Analogous to Atmospheric Pressure

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:11 AM by davidzi
In a blog posting earlier this week , the Azure team announced that they would be moving all Azure applications out of our “USA – Northwest” datacenter. I was fascinated by this given that the stated reason for this move is a change in local tax law which Read More...
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Completing 5 days of Forefront Protection Suite (Stirling) Training

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:12 AM by davidzi
Last week I came out to Redmond for 5 days of training on the Forefront Protection Suite, formerly Forefront codenamed “Stirling”. The final name was announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference : Forefront codename “Stirling” - the next generation of Read More...
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Excellent Data Center Article in the NY Times Magazine

Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:46 PM by davidzi
The New York Times magazine has a very interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt on datacenters and the infrastructures that power today’s online services. Several Microsoft (and former Microsoft) execs were interviewed including Mike Manos, Debra Chrapaty, Read More...
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White Paper: Comparing the Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange Environments

Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:07 AM by davidzi
The Exchange team has published a whitepaper on TechNet comparing the power utilization of a typical 8 server physical Exchange environment compared to a a virtualized environment using the same number of logical processors but on only two Hyper-V host Read More...
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Updated: Introducing the Azure Services Platform

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:24 PM by davidzi
The main introductory whitepaper to the Azure platform written by David Chappell has been updated. The main updates are around SQL Data Services and the move toward a more relational model and the introduction of something code-named the “Huron” data Read More...
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Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 9:00 AM by davidzi
When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and tools like SVAM and MAP , underutilized database servers are a frequent consolidation candidate. Similarly, if you have already widely implemented virtualization, Read More...
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Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:02 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template . This was announced over on the SDL Blog . Roger has some comments on it as well. The SDL Process Template is a free downloadable template for Visual Studio Team System that integrates Read More...
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Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud computing front. First, over on the Virtualization Team Blog , Jeff provided the announcement and details around some new capabilities coming in Hyper-V with Read More...
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Finding the Hidden Costs of VDI

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 8:01 AM by davidzi
Brian Madden has an excellent post up today called The hidden costs of VDI . I’ve been working nearly full time the last two months helping to put together a Microsoft Services offering around desktop virtualization in general and VDI in particular so Read More...
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Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:15 PM by davidzi
The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to take advantage of them. The E7 post also links to an in depth AnandTech article that goes into more detail on SSD’s and has some benchmark comparisons between Read More...
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New VDI content on Microsoft.com

Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 3:11 PM by davidzi
There is updated desktop virtualization content at www.microsoft.com/vdi There are a couple of whitepapers and guides to help understand the various approaches and components of a virtualized desktop. Over the last few months VDI is an area I have been Read More...
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Microsoft Research: Peering into the future of Cloud Computing

Posted Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:15 AM by davidzi
Microsoft has created a new group within Microsoft Research called Cloud Computing Futures headed by Dan Reed , who has a long history in academia and is a former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications . An interview with him Read More...
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Azure Services Training Kit - February Update

Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 5:32 PM by davidzi
Following up on yesterday's post, today an updated Azure Services Training Kit was released: The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help Read More...
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Getting Started with Azure and Microsoft Cloud Computing

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 6:22 PM by davidzi
Here are a couple resources for getting started learning about Microsoft's cloud computing strategy: " The Azure Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Azure Services Platform Read More...
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