It’s another snowy day up here in Minneapolis, but earlier this week I had the pleasure of traveling down to tropical Kansas City. Overland Park, KS, to be more specific. And on that particular day we decided to try something new. We (John Weston and I) asked our attendees to write down questions, topic areas, … Continue reading So Many Questions. So Little Time (part 1)
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In today’s next-to-last installment of our cloud series, we have another guest author representing another great Microsoft partner: NetIQ. And in particular, they discuss a product of theirs called Platespin Migrate. Check out the Part 29 blog post HERE. And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 29 of 30: How Do I Get to Hyper-V?
Back in part 23 of our series I wrote about Windows Azure, and some of the tools that IT Pros have at their disposal for the sake of managing and monitoring it. One of those tools of course is PowerShell. And today in part 27, Matt Hester writes about how PowerShell (one of his favorite … Continue reading The Cloud on Your Terms Part 28 of 30: Cloud PowerShell
“Hey Kevin – Is the cloud just for big companies?”Absolutely not. Certainly some implementations (private clouds, for instance) make more sense in organizations that A) are able to take advantage of delivering IT as a Service for their business units, and B) can justify the kind of datacenter resources to support it. But small business … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 27 of 30: Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Essentials and the Cloud
Are you concerned that the cloud will eat your job? Perhaps. Every time there is a shift in how things are done based on improvements in technology or new options for efficiency, economics, scale… there is always someone crying foul. Or probably more appropriately, they’re worrying about what it means for their current situation. And … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 26 of 30: Office 365 will not get you fired
Microsoft has some pretty interesting new direction with regard to what “the cloud” can do. For example – how about an Internet-based service that let’s you monitor, manage, and deploy software to the workstations you’re responsible for? “Yeah.. I’d love to see that.” That’s what we have in the form of Windows Intune. Today in … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 25 of 30: Windows Intune
Back in part 2 of this 30 part series, John Weston introduced the topic of Hybrid Cloud. That is the combining of Public, Private, and or traditional IT into a system that works for you. Today in Part 24, he continues the discussion with a look at some examples of using public cloud services that … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 24 of 30: Hybrid for Public Cloud
Back in Part 10 of our “Cloud on Your Terms” series, I discussed the goals of building my own test environment – which I refer to as my “Private Private Cloud”. It was the first in a series of screencasts and blog posts showing the process of building your own test environment using spare hardware, … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 22 of 30: My Private Private Cloud
Back in part 10 of our cloud series, I described how I configured my own “Private Private Cloud”. One of the important elements of my test lab was to have a foundation that would support Windows Failover Clustering and the Live Migration of virtual machines. To do this in my “test lab” (the spare bedroom … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 21 of 30: Setting up an inexpensive SAN
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