The ACS Information Age magazine recently published an article by our local IT Pro Evangelist Michael Kleef.
An excerpt:
"There are many ways to achieve interoperability, ranging from (1) designing products with intrinsic interoperability-enhancing functionality, (2) implementation of industry standards (including both open standards and/or proprietary standards) in products and services, (3) licensing of an organisation's intellectual property to other interested parties that wish to interoperate, and (4) industry collaborations."
Read it here
Meet the man that consolidated the Australia and New Zealand data centers into a single Asia pacific Data Center in a project that reduced the number of Microsoft Data centers from 23 to only 4. Jeff Alexander started at Microsoft in August 1987 as a Support Professional focusing on management tools for Microsoft's Enterprise customers. Since then he has moved through several external facing roles before taking on one of the Worlds largest Server consolidations - Microsoft's Asia Pacific infrastructure. Jeff Alexander now focuses his passion for Infrastructure and management technologies as an IT Pro Evangelist promoting and enabling the community of IT Professionals through vehicles such asTechnet events, blogging, the TechNet Online, User Groups, MVP's, and webcasts.
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