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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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Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:26 PM by davidzi
As mentioned here and in a few other posts, I’ve been using Friendfeed and Twitter quite a bit over the last couple months. I’ve been extremely impressed with Friendfeed in particular. I’ve created two Friendfeed groups that I’ve been posting content Read More...
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Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 11:54 AM by davidzi
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Dynamically Provisioning Customized Virtual Machines with VMM

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:46 PM by davidzi
There’s a good technical post over on Chris Adam’s blog about how to dynamically provision customized virtual machines by using System Center Virtual Machine Manager and unattend.xml. The unattend.xml file is used in combination with a sysprep’d image Read More...
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Head-to-Head: Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for Automation

Posted Sunday, June 28, 2009 2:07 PM by davidzi
Here’s an interesting and slightly amusing mock debate between Brandon Shell and Jason Conger on Citrix’s Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for automation . If you aren’t familiar with it, here is the description of what Workflow Studio is: “Citrix Workflow Read More...
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Threat Modeling Guide for IT Infrastructure

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 7:41 PM by davidzi
Over on the Solution Accelerators Security Blog is a post and link to the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide . From the guide: The IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide provides an easy-to-understand method for developing threat models that can 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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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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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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MMS Keynote Streaming Live Now

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:11 PM by davidzi
MMS Day 1 Keynote: Bob Kelly, Microsoft corporate vice president, April 28, 2009, 8:30 am PT 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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