Archive for the ‘System Center General’ Category
Tech-Ed 2010 North America – summary.
Here is my summary of Microsoft Tech-ED North America 2010. Hosted in the vibrant city of New Orleans. I have been to a major Microsoft event in both Europe and America now, I had an awesome time learning, even though a few times the demo gods let the presenters down, there was never enough to [...]
In: Data Protection Manager, Events, Service Manager, Social, System Center General, Virtualization · Tagged with: DPM 2010, Hyper-V, TechEd
MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2
Microsoft has made available Beta 2 of the Assessment and Planning toolkit. You can download it here. Use the MAP Toolkit 5.0 to plan your right-sized infrastructure, accelerate IT planning, and assess multiple products and scenarios from a single tool—helping you and your organization save valuable resources and money. What’s new with MAP Toolkit 5.0 [...]
In: System Center General, Virtualization · Tagged with: MAP
MMS 2010 Keynote – clouds ahead…
Service Manager, Opalis, Long distance migration, System Center Virtual Machine Manager vNext, and an upcoming Azure management pack for SC Operations Manager, these were a few things in today’s keynote speech. You can view the on demand version of the keynote speech here. I think Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative is clear about updating and developing [...]
In: Events, System Center General, Virtualization · Tagged with: Cloud, MMS 2010, Virtual Machine Manager
Rambles and a Jersey Windows Server Management User Group.
Not a technical week this week, I’m rebuilding my house as a iSCSI zone of excellence and waiting on a new super 64 bit capable laptop. It’s time to take Hyper-V off the Mozart Media lab gaming machine and build a more permanent test lab -that’s non disruptive to our lounge Yep the servers under [...]
In: Events, Social, System Center General · Tagged with: Events, Servers, Windows
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