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MCP Magazine on 'Why Quickstart... and Search Specialisation coming!'

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:00 AM by Mike P
My colleague Sol pointed out this article which gives a nice summary of the Quickstart and some of the reasons why this was created and how the Partner Programme will be taking up the mantle from July 07 onwards: http://mcpmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=703 Read More...
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Ballmer comments on compute cluster for Finance...

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:34 PM by Mike P
Really great to see the importance of compute cluster server in Microsoft go right to the top! Check out the article in the April cover story of Wall Street & Technology. It features an interview with Steve Ballmer, in which he “discusses what high-performance Read More...
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More on the UK CCS user conference...

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 6:11 PM by Mike P
You are cordially invited to join Microsoft, industry experts and your peers as Microsoft presents the UK User Group meeting for CCS, 27 April 2007 in Reading. Are you doing clusters on Windows? Come and spend a day with the users and developers of Microsoft Read More...
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More free training for CCS...

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 11:13 AM by Mike P
Following on from the huge take-up in training mentioned last week: HPC training...free...come and get it! we have laid on the following extra dates for you all: https://training.Partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=12&delivery=229208 Read More...
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Free, Simple business advice simply spoken..

Posted Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:15 PM by Mike P
Want to freshen your skills and get a reality check - read on! Came across this site a few weeks back and have been meaning to share with you all - Trizle The whole blog is an interesting one with some really cool advice around lots of areas, I had a Read More...
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Another reason why Compute Cluster Server...

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 5:24 PM by Mike P
So many years ago, Microsoft used to have a hard time around Security, it's been really great to see our progress in this area and now it's actually becoming quite a key differentiator for us. Check out the great post below from Jeff Jones - I used to Read More...
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Compliance a headache - check this out...!

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:19 PM by Mike P
Many of you will know about the huge benefit of Excel Services in the Financial Services Sector - fancy knowing more then check out this paper from HCL about their plans around Excel Services for Financial customers - great for use in a clustered environment Read More...
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Green Computing: Check out the Vista green credentials!!

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:41 PM by Mike P
Real stats on how to save money and help save the environment: · Reduce the carbon dioxide generated by an organisation, equal to 45 tonnes per year for a business with 200 desktop PCs. · Deliver savings on energy bills of up to £46 per desktop PC per Read More...
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Fancy a Revolution anyone?

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:03 PM by Mike P
Was on the tube yesterday and saw this rather cool ad about the Information Revolution, Steve also captured this in his blog: Get a free Information Revolution t-shirt as did Valley Wag with a slightly more jaded view point. Some great videos from people Read More...
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Comcast to switch from Google to Microsoft - more to it methinks!

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 9:29 PM by Mike P
Just seen this post over on LiveSide 'Comcast unhappy with Google, may use MS Search?' Now it would be very easy for me to start crowing about the business proposition that Microsoft has, the account teams, the customer care, the security development Read More...
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Great new look...just 'wash and go' for blogs!

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 7:52 PM by Mike P
Huge huge thanks to my mate Matt for helping me make this blog look soooo much better! Really needed the 'pimp my blog' experience! If you fancy checking out Vista, Virtualisation and more then check out his blog Peering through Windows . Enjoy! Read More...
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HPC User Group - roll up, roll up!

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 7:31 PM by Mike P
Just a quick post this one - anyone fancy joining the first HPC User group then great event here to come along to: Timings 08:30 Registration 09:15 Introductions 09:30 TBD- Windows Compute Cluster Server introduction 10:00 Prof Simon Cox- Tools, Technologies Read More...
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Little gem of delight for you HPC gurus...!

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 10:50 AM by Mike P
Great news on the HPC e-learning side around new webcasts for Schlumberger and ESi working with Microsoft CCS: Live HPC Webcast: High Performance Computing for Oil and Gas with Schlumberger’s ECLIPSE on Windows Compute Cluster Server. April 17, 2007 * Read More...
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Microsoft Search with SharePoint - New Deep Technical Resources

Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:50 PM by Mike P
Hat-tip to Steve for spotting this new resource for SharePoint Search: SharePoint Server 2007 Search: Deep Diving ,includes all of the following: Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveA.exe) This session starts Read More...
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Career Manifesto...get on the bus or...

Posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 6:48 PM by Mike P
I really like the Execupundit blog and came across this Career Manifesto . Some great words of wisdom from Michael Wade. Some of the most frustrating things I find in business, both the one I work in but also people I meet from other companies (ironically Read More...
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Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 7:28 PM by Mike P
Nice refreshing video here showing you a relaxed Steve and his views on Google as well as his joining process into Microsoft: Ballmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane' Kind of cool and candid - hope you all have a great weekend! Enjoy! Read More...
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Progress: activity doesn't always equal better experience :-)

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 11:48 AM by Mike P
Made me smile, feels like this sometimes in business :-) Read More...
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Time to stop the hype about Google?

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 11:33 AM by Mike P
So I guess a few things have been niggling away at the back of my mind around the new kids on the block and I want to put a few ideas out there, around the whole experience piece: I like to eat out in a restaurant cared for by an owner, chef and a good Read More...
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Windows Live deal with lenovo and nokia!

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 9:52 AM by Mike P
Great deal been announced to highlight Live Services on OEM laptops starting with Lenovo - covered well by my friends over on LiveSide : Microsoft announces Windows Live deal with Lenovo Also, in the press here: Lenovo loads up on Windows Live Search Read More...
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HPC training...free...come and get it!

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:19 PM by Mike P
Just a quick one to point out the brand spanking new training available next week, mostly full already but there will be some more in May so get ready! Agenda as follows: If you fancy it then just click here and join in! If you are not already a certified Read More...
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Intel Servers that sapp less juice...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:54 PM by Mike P
Finding the energy performance of your servers gets you down, let alone costs you an arm and a leg, Intel may just have the answer? http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070312/20070312005400.html?.v=1 Press Release Source: Intel Corporation Intel Marks Energy-Efficient Read More...
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High Performance Club gets into first gear!

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:35 PM by Mike P
Launched today, we had just a touch of legal playing around but have successfully launched the incentive today - huge thanks to the UK legal team in Microsoft for the great help they gave on this! See previous post: Announcing: High Performance Lovin' Read More...
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Giving...fancy joining in?

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:24 PM by Mike P
So I was having a look around at a few blogs over the weekend and I read the following really interesting post: http://www.trizle.com/how-giving-rocks/ It made me think about using this blog to highlight a charity a few mates and I run in our spare time Read More...
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More on presentations..had me in tears..

Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:58 PM by Mike P
Simple choice it's either me or the presenter...decisions decisions... Now this really made me laugh out loud, Rowan from Fortify your Oasis has some absolutely superb points to describe those less skilled presenters: Ass Narcissism - "I’m just going Read More...
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Presentation help...

Posted Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:18 PM by Mike P
How many presentations have I sat in, that to be quiet frank bore the pants of everyone watching and listening? Hmmm and how many have I been presenting... :-) Whilst looking for ways to brighten up both this blog and my presentations I came across this Read More...
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Partnering with Microsoft...honesty helps!

Posted Saturday, March 10, 2007 11:11 AM by Mike P
I met with Mondosoft the other day - great couple of guys and we had a good meeting. I hadn't realised I had left a lasting impression on Robert but I was really pleased to see that the approach the meeting took meant something to them: http://blog.mondosoft.com/art-of-search/archive/2007/02/28/17.aspx Read More...
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Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:14 PM by Mike P
Awesome video on You Tube - check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE A few lines I loved in this: The web changes the way we do things It's not a machine, it is us and learns from us It connects people and joins communities Simple thoughts, Read More...
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BAE trusts Microsoft HPC for product development

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:01 PM by Mike P
We have been excitedly sitting on this for a while now and can finally release the video and casestudy of BAE using Microsoft Compute Cluster Server for streamlining costs around product development. Why is this so great? Proves Microsoft scales to big Read More...
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Technorati Post for spiders

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:44 PM by Mike P
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WebPronews.com press article on the Energy forum whitepaper...nice resume here:

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:17 AM by Mike P
So the whitepaper I have just blogged about has hit the press and is being picked up fairly quickly, one of the nice things I like is the following article which has a really nice few bullets on the key points (for those that dont want to read 58 pages...) Read More...
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Announcing: Brilliant oil and gas whitepaper on industry use of Microsoft CCS for high performance computing

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:09 AM by Mike P
Really cool news for all of you working in the HPC space with Microsoft. we have just announced a whitepaper at our Global Energy Forum in Houston, Texas. For those who like brief papers just read the text below -it is 58 pages but written in pure gold Read More...
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Google maps and the top supercomputers worldwide - check out the ww distribution - one laptop per child will become one cluster per family??

Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:28 PM by Mike P
So this caught my eye today, click on the link below and you will see the distribution of top 500 SuperComputers around the world. Things that I found interesting: The distribution between Northern and Southern hemisphere The huge opportunity to take Read More...
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Fancy a search test drive...? Book here for your chance to learn more all about Microsoft and Search!

Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:31 PM by Mike P
Don’t Search – Find ... Enterprise Search with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Organizations need to increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing their employees, partners, and customers the ability to find relevant content Read More...
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Cool announcement on hpc from IBM - yes that is a microsoftee saying that ;-)

Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:31 PM by Mike P
Summary: IBM taking the Windows CCS and Microsoft clustering message way more seriously IBM getting the long tail of Clustering and placing much more emphasis in modular clusters - prebuilt for MidMarket customers Why is this cool: Validates the strategy Read More...
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Free Champagne - build your Excel services on CCS demo and win!

Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 3:28 PM by Mike P
So basically this is a white paper to show the following: Make Excel services run quicker Allow you to have more relevance and a new story in Financial Services, Life Sciences, Oil and Gas etc etc etc The full official blarney can be read here: Abstract Read More...
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For all those people who think that bosses are perfect - remember we are all learning...

Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:44 PM by Mike P
I was just reading a new blog that I have recently subscribed to called Execupundit.com - it's truly a great place to read some pragmatic cool advice and the following really got me thinking: http://www.execupundit.com/2007/02/note-from-boss-to-employees-what-some.html Read More...
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Medstory...more views on the intuitive UI....very very very cool!

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:15 AM by Mike P
Oh my word, how good is this...? Intelligent guiding to help you get the answer you want: So I did the following: Simple search on Pathology Then clicked on pathology with regard to 'Lung Cancer'... Medstory then asked for definitions of Lung Cancer referring Read More...
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So what does medstory give you...?

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:22 AM by Mike P
I did a simple search for 'Pathology' - check out the manner in which the search results were returned: You can view the results here: http://www.medstory.com/app?service=external&page=Search&c=true&s=Web&tc=h1&q=pathology From here Read More...
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Medstory ANnouncement - Microsoft Search goes vertical for Healthcare...cool news!

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:11 AM by Mike P
So some of you may have seen the announcement in New Orleans about the planned acquisition of Medstory: This is great news as we clearly demonstrate to our partners and customers around our focus on Search. If you fancy reading a little more then have Read More...
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