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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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Everything you ever wanted to know about VHDs

Posted Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:33 AM by davidzi
The Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide is 61 pages of great info outlining all the relevant scenarios, configurations, and options for using VHD files. This was release about 3 weeks ago but I missed it at the time due to training and TechReady9. 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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TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up

Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:46 PM by davidzi
Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped the first session timeslot on Thurs to prepare for the double session I was presenting with Citrix. The double session format basically allocates two sessions Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up

Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:22 AM by davidzi
Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s coming across some of the Bing features, and some stuff MSR is working on. There was also a good discussion of how concepts move from MSR, to Labs, then into Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 2 Wrap-up

Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:02 PM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady was packed with technical sessions, no keynotes. In the morning I attended a session on model driven development. Not yet an infrastructure architecture related technology but as I mentioned yesterday regarding System Center, Microsoft Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 1 Wrap-up

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:50 AM by davidzi
TechReady is always motivating and day one of TechReady 9 was no different as thousands of folks from Microsoft’s field organization (Consulting, Support, Sales, etc) take over the Washington State Conference & Trade Center in Seattle. The day one 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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Great Advice

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:34 PM by davidzi
Sean Olson has a fantastic post called “ What I Wish I Knew at 21 ”. Take five minutes and read it, I guarantee you’ll find it useful and thought provoking. var addthis_pub="ziembd"; 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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New Microsoft Security Site for Governments

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates a number of relevant tools, solutions, case studies, and links relevant to Public Sector organizations. Several of the solutions call for specific mentions Read More...
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Virtualization

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 12:07 PM 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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