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About the Author: Jason Perlow is a Technology Solution Professional with Microsoft Partner Hosting & Cloud Services based in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. He can be reached at...
View ArticleCloud Broiler: Hyper-V: A Platform the Scales out for Building the Largest...
Hyper-V 3.0 in many ways is the crown jewel of our enterprise virtualization and private cloud strategy and is the heart of where many of the improvements in our flagship Server OS reside. So we should...
View ArticleUsing the Cloud to Transform and Unify High Availability, Disaster Recovery,...
Last week I discussed the importance of data center high availability, and how the cost of data storage is minimal compared to the cost of not being able to access that data. There are a lot of options...
View ArticleUsing Indications with the Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service...
Indications are a mechanism used in the Common Information Model (CIM) to provide events from a CIM server to a client application. The storage service can use these events to make sure its cached...
View Article2000 Seat VDI Deployment Benchmark
Hey all,If you are interested in an “incrementally expandable” Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) pool architecture and want to hear about some benchmarking results we just completed, you are in the...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Capacity Planner
Customers have frequently asked us for capacity planning guidance before deploying Hyper-V Replica – e.g.: “How much network bandwidth is required between the primary and replica site”, “How much...
View ArticleHitachi Systems: Thriving in a Rapidly Evolving Environment
The market for third-party data centers is exploding. Today, roughly one in three businesses is outsourcing IT solutions to a hosted service provider, according to research compiled by Channel Partner....
View ArticleStorage Service (SMI-S) Tracing and Logging
Microsoft added the ability to manage storage using Storage Management Initiative (SMI-S) providers to Windows Server 2012. Sometimes things don't go quite the way you plan and some debugging is needed...
View ArticleLufthansa Systems Boosts Customer Satisfaction with Private Cloud
Cloud computing is catching on like wildfire. Indeed, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020, according to Forrester Research. As...
View ArticleXenDesktop 7 Supports Windows Server 2012
We are excited to see the release of XenDesktop 7 and support our partner Citrix. XenDesktop 7 brings together both XenApp and XenDesktop functionality into a common release and now brings support for...
View ArticleGroup Policy and Logon Impact
You can make decisions as you design and deploy your Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that will have an impact on how quickly your Windows desktops start and become usable to your users. Some of these...
View ArticleOverview of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server
Wouldn’t it be great if you could run Windows Azure in your own datacenter? Well, now you can! With the recent release of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server you can run elements of Azure IaaS...
View ArticleMVP Cameron Fuller Presents “Operations Manager Evolution: Taking Your...
Earlier this week MVP Cameron Fuller presented in the Windows Server/System Center MVP Pro Speaker Series webcast on the topic of “Operations Manager Evolution: Taking Your Operations Manager to the...
View ArticleTutorial: Building Dashboards with the Data Warehouse Cubes and Excel
At some events last year, I demonstrated an incident “dashboard” that I had created using the cubes in the data warehouse and Excel pivot tables. I never really got around to discussing in detail how...
View ArticleNew Test Lab Guides for Virtual Machine Manager Now Available!
We wanted to let you know that two Test Lab Guides for VMM (System Center 2012 SP1) are now available. The first one walks you through installing a VMM server, using the evaluation VHD for VMM. The...
View ArticleTechNet Radio Series on Building a Private Cloud
We’ve recently been running a series of TechNet Radio shows on Building a Private Cloud with technical evangelists Keith Mayer and Yung Chou to show you how to build and manage your hybrid cloud...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Manager Example Service Templates
Get your STEK (not steak)! The Service Template Example Kit is now available on the TechNet Gallery.This set of System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager service templates provide the necessary...
View ArticleSystem Center Universe DACH Now Open For Registration
The System Center Universe is expanding to Europe! A new System Center Universe will be held in Switzerland in September! For two days, IT professionals will get up to speed on the latest information...
View ArticleThe ‘In the Cloud’ Podcast, Episode 10: The Countdown to TechEd 2013!
In this episode, I discuss what to expect from TechEd North America (June 3) and TechEd Europe (June 25), as well as some of the big themes in my Day 1 keynote at both events. This is a huge event for...
View ArticleLay the Groundwork for your TechEd North America Experience by Attending...
It’s that time of year again. Time to head south to the great city of New Orleans for TechEd North America 2013. TechEd takes place June 3-6. TechEd is the place to go to explore and learn about new...
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