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TechEd 2013 Favorites – The Complete Series
The 21st annual TechEd North America conference happened this month (June) in New Orleans, and my three IT Technology Evangelist coworkers (Brian Lewis, Keith Mayer, and Matt Hester) and I had the...
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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators - Delivering Software Defined Cloud...
In this brief episode, I speak with Sr. Business Development Manager Joe Hielscher of Arista Networks from the floor at TechEd 2013 in New Orleans. We chat about the latest features available from...
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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators - Hybrid Network Offerings for Windows Azure...
Once again on the floor of TechEd 2013 in New Orleans, I chat with Jeffrey Bellamy, Director of Business Development at F5 Networks. Jeffrey gives us a quick overview of some of their hybrid network...
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BREAKING NEWS: Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 Preview...
Gentlemen, start your downloads! (Ladies, too!)The previews for the “blue” wave of server products beat the estimated arrival dates (I thought we’d have to wait ‘til June 26th!) and became available...
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BREAKING NEWS: Buh-Bye TechNet Subscriptions
“Don’t you mean, ‘BuyTechNet Subscriptions’, Kevin?”Nope. The TechNet Subscription is no more. Today Microsoft announced that, as of August 31, 2013 we will no longer be selling the TechNet...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Agents or no Agents?
One of the things VMware like to claim as a benefit to their protection of virtualization resources and application data is that they don’t require agents to be installed, where supposedly Microsoft...
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VMware or Microsoft?–VMWorld Key Keynote Notes
Welcome to another of our series of “VMware or Microsoft?” articles. Yesterday I watched general session keynote coming out of VMworld, and thought I’d jot down and share some notes about what was...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Did you know that there’s no extra charge?
This week at VMWorld the VMware faithful are learning all about the latest news and updates from their virtualization vendor. And hopefully at the same time Microsoft is able to reach them with some...
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VMware or Microsoft? - A Memo to IT Leadership
Sometimes we get lost in the details. I confess that am guilty of this myself sometimes. We who are the technical folks tend to focus on the features and implementation because we think we already...
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VMware or Microsoft?–The Naked Server
“Heh heh… You said naked.”Yep. But when I say “naked servers”, I mean bare-metal servers. “So.. was that just a trick to get more people to read this article?”Yes. “Okay. Proceed...”And by...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Auto-Balance your Workloads
Automated server workload balancing for heterogeneous private clouds.“Wow. That’s a mouthful.”And it’s also a pretty useful set of functionality.Consider VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)...
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Road Trip! FREE Microsoft Windows Azure Events in the Central US (September...
UPDATE: The FULL list of our events for September and October is now live. Go to THIS BLOG POST instead.-KevinComing to a town near you, our four IT Pro Evangelists in the US Central Region (Brian...
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Road Trip! FREE Microsoft Windows Azure Events in the US
Coming to a town near you, our four IT Pro Evangelists in the US Central Region (Brian Lewis, Keith Mayer, Matt Hester, and Moi) are delivering free, in-person, hands-on learning (otherwise known as...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Shopping for Private Clouds
What’s on your shopping list for your datacenter? What do you need to run the business you’re supporting? What capabilities do you wish you had? Is your goal to provide a dynamic, scalable,...
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TechNet Radio: (Part 3) What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Modern Business...
Brad Anderson and I wrap up our 3 part What's New in 2012 R2 series. In today's episode we discuss how you can better enable modern business applications in your IT environment with the Windows Azure...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Replaceable? Extensible? What kind of virtual switch do...
In today’s article in our series, “VMware or Microsoft?”, my friend Chris Avis compares the way flexible, extendible networking is implemented for virtualization.READ HIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE HERE
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VMware or Microsoft?–VDI: A Look at Supportability and More!
“A little bit of history first. Virtual Desktop computing has been slowly etching its way into more IT plans year over year. The advantages can be enormous when isolating the end user into a virtual...
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VMware or Microsoft?–How robust is your availability?
Disclaimer: facts and figures in this article are based on the state of the technology as it exists at the date of its publication. Our article today in our “VMware or Microsoft?” series is about...
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VMware or Microsoft?–Does VMware get it?
Does VMware understand the value of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and have the ability to support your “Hybrid Cloud”? And can they back up their service with a solid Service-Level Agreement...
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Can I use an ACL to protect my Azure SQL Server VM? (So many question. So...
At our IT Camp in Saint Louis a few weeks ago, Todd had a great question on protecting his cloud-based SQL Server:Kevin,Not sure this question was asked at the Azure IT boot camp but is there any...
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