Just last week (March 29) I had the pleasure of speaking to Chris Van Wesep. Chris is a Group Product Manager in the Management & Security Product Group, and as such he is a key person at Microsoft responsible for many of the System Center management tools and vision. As you may be aware, much … Continue reading Was it cloudy at MMS 2011? (“Cloudy April”–Part 8)
What if you could run SQL Server, and get all the power of the best data management platform, but hosted for you in “the cloud”?“You mean like at a hosting provider?”Something like that. Well… something and NOTHING like that. Something like that because yes, you don’t have to buy/house/power/secure/make-highly available the servers that it runs … Continue reading Windows Azure – the SQL! (“Cloudy April” – Part 7)
Have you looked at Windows Azure lately? It was announced a couple of years ago, released just over a year ago, and already it’s the most solid platform-as-a-service out there.You remember PaaS, right? I introduced it back in Part 3 of this series.“Yes, I remember.”Good. I won’t waste your time going into the details of the … Continue reading No thanks. I’ll PaaS. (“Cloudy April” – Part 6)
Disclaimer: Although I work for Microsoft, I don’t have to always agree with what other parts of the company are doing. Okay.. proper disclaimer out of the way. Now…“Uh oh.. you gonna get yourself fired, Kevin?”Well.. if a person can get fired from a company for what I’m about to say, then I didn’t want … Continue reading Those stupid “To the Cloud!” Commercials (“Cloudy April” – Part 5)
(Note to self: Don’t ever do an image search on the word “Sassy” ever again. Ever.)In part 3 you’ll recall that we outlined three delivery methods for Cloud-based services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Today we’re going to go a little deeper into SaaS.“But Kevin.. I already know what it is.”Bear with me. Even though people … Continue reading Getting SAASy (“Cloudy April” – Part 4)
These are probably not new acronyms to most of you.“Acronyms? I thought you were just a really rotten spelller!”Yeah.. acronyms. SaaS = Software as a Service PaaS = Platform as a Service IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service. These are the three delivery methods that we talk about when considering how to deliver, leverage, or … Continue reading SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.. Oh my! (“Cloudy April” – Part 3)
Is ‘the cloud” making you concerned for your job? And by that, I mean, are you primarily working with a product or technology that may soon be cloudified? “Cloudified?”Okay.. I’m making up words again. But I think you know what I’m talking about. Are you working with a technology that is seeing a big shift … Continue reading The Cloud Ate My Job! (“Cloudy April” – Part 2)
Greetings! Welcome to my 31-part series of articles all about this thing called “the cloud”.“Seriously, Kevin? Is this some warped April-Fools joke? Haven’t we heard enough about ‘the cloud’?”I’m going to answer that question with another question: What have you heard? “It means something I use is hosted somewhere else. But honestly… every company out … Continue reading “Cloudy April” Part 1: Full of I.T. with my head in the clouds
(RTW = Released to the Wild Wild Web)At the Microsoft’s Management Summit (MMS 2011) Microsoft announced the availability of BETA 2 of System Center Configuration Manager 2012. “What are the new big improvements?”I was just getting to that. Here’s a quick summary:“User-Centric Management” / “Flexible Delivery of Applications”: This SCCM version acknowledges and supports the … Continue reading Breaking News from MMS: SCCM 2012 Beta 2 is RTW!
(RTW = Released to the Webtubes)Today at the 2011 Microsoft Management Summit Microsoft announced the availability of the BETA of the next version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager – SCVMM 2012Here are more details you should check out: The SCVMM 2012 Beta page The Download Bing it. “What are you most excited about in … Continue reading Breaking News from MMS 2011: SCVMM 2012 Beta is RTW!
Absolutely Full of I.T. 