Just a short post today to remind you of two previous posts that I made recently regarding our TechNet Events happening in the Central Region of the US and all around the United States. Here my post on our schedule of events for the Central Region. I realize that many of these have already occurred, … Continue reading Cloudy TechNet Events (“Cloudy April” – Part 13)
How certified are you? “Same as you.”Of course you are. I’m an MCITP: Server Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. I was also an MCSE on Server 2003, 2000, 2000: Security, and MCSE on NT 4. I was even an MCP on Windows 3.11.“Wow.. you’re old.”Shut up. I was 13 at the time.**I tell you this … Continue reading Are You Cloud-Certified? (“Cloudy April” – Part 12)
I know I’ve talked here about it before, but I do want as many IT Pros and IT Managers as possible to know about the series of webcasts I’m doing entitled “IT Manager Chats with Kevin Remde”. These are so much fun to do, because I get to talk to some people in the business … Continue reading Let’s Chat Business (“Cloudy April”–Part 11)
Often when people think of “the cloud”, they think of web-based applications that are accessed via a browser. “But it’s not just that, is it?”No, it’s not. Services hosted “elsewhere” don’t necessarily need to be fronted by a browser. HTTP is just another protocol. Applications running in native or local code can also take advantage … Continue reading Your Cloud Browser (“Cloudy April”–Part 10)
Whenever I do a talk on “the cloud” or any of the products from Microsoft that involve (or revolve around) it, I always ask the folks in attendance, “What is your biggest concern about ‘the cloud’?” And without a single exception in the dozens of times I’ve done it, the first word I hear is … Continue reading But what about security? (“Cloudy April”–Part 9)
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)
Absolutely Full of I.T. 