Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : System Center

Do you want a demo of Virtual Machine Manager?

mbullock — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:19:28 GMT

Virtual Machine Manager is a member of the System Center family of Management tools and is responsible for managing Virtualised Server environments, such as Hyper-V, Virtual Server and now VMWare... Watch a demo here......(read more)

Technet Webcast – Protect SQL Server 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

mbullock — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:01:03 GMT

I’ve spoken to many of you about Data Protection Manager (DPM) but normally at a high level. This technet webcast will give you a detailed look at protecting SQL Server specifically. The webcast happened live last week but if you follow the ‘registration’...(read more)

The Optimised Desktop - What and how?

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:14 GMT

You will have probably heard Microsoft talking about our Dynamic IT vision, especially if you've seen anything of the Virtualisation launch this week . An essential ingredient of this is the Optimised Desktop, and this is something that I often discuss...(read more)

Virtualization Launch Day - Summary

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:19:20 GMT

[Update - this post seemed to get lost so I'm posting again - apologies if you get it twice!] I thought that I would try to summarise what we launched this week, pull together the case studies, 3rd party analysis, etc. The launch has been well blogged...(read more)

How is System Center Licensed?

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:39:11 GMT

This is a question that often gets asked, and sometimes the answers are as clear as mud! So, I'm going to try and answer the question and you can tell me if it's clear or not! Firstly, my usual disclaimers on licensing related matters - This blog post...(read more)