Archive for the ‘Cloud’ Category
The IT Pro: Is certification relevant?
The great question that resurfaces repeatedly in our industry concerns the value and relevance of IT certification. I have recently received a few notes from from Microsoft Learning about introducing their new certifications and I’d like to share these with you. Naturally, I have weighed in my personal opinion and lastly hope to furnish you [...]
In: Cloud, Data Protection Manager, Service Manager, System Center General, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization
Microsoft’s New Cloud Assessment Tool
Well there’s something new and interesting. Microsoft have released a cloud based tool to help partners asses their customer cloud computing needs. I have already run a sample client through the tool and it’s a real time saver. Not only will partners benefit in time saved, clients will soon benefit as this may bring more [...]
In: Cloud, Virtualization
What might IaaS look like in a private hosted cloud?
Today’s post is inspired by friends who stopped me in the shop, asking me to explain what a small IaaS customer in a cloud actually looks like? Gulp! Ever since I stopped smoking last year, I don’t have a fag packet to draw the details on. I promised to draw something on my blog so [...]
In: Cloud, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization · Tagged with: Cloud, Virtualization
Cable & Wireless Technology Unplugged
Great day today in Jersey , I delivered my first key note speech for Sure, the theme “How can your business benefit from cloud computing” Ok I muddled some notes, lost my nerves and just as I was about to teleport out of there, recovered thanks to a supportive group of technology and business professionals, I’m [...]
In: Cloud, Data Protection Manager, Events, Service Manager, System Center General, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization · Tagged with: Cloud, Dynamic, Security, Strategy, System Center, Virtualization
Building a Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft technologies.
I have created a presentation for my City and Guilds teaching course, I called it 5 Layers and the aim was to teach people the concepts of building a cloud infrastructure with Microsoft technologies. It overan of course, i only had 15 minutes. Lesson learnt. Hardware Layer Storage Area Networking, Network and Sever Infrastructure. Virtualisation Layer [...]
In: Cloud, System Center General, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization · Tagged with: Cloud, CSV, Hyper-V, Teaching, Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2