It’s the end of the month, and the last of our 30 days of cloudy goodness is here! In today’s blog post, one of the most genuinely certifiable gentlemen I know, Brian Lewis, points you to some resources to help you get on track for cloud readiness. And by you, I mean YOU. You need … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 30 of 30: Certification Tips To Get Your Career Ready For The Cloud
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 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
You might recall that in April 2011 I introduced you (or perhaps re-introduced you) to Windows Azure in part 6 of my “Cloudy April” blog series. Windows Azure, in case you’ve forgotten (or have been living under a rock) is Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering – allowing you to build applications and run … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 23 of 30: Windows Azure for the IT Professional
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
Today in part 15 of our November Cloud blog series, my buddy John Weston lays out some of the technologies that will support your efforts in implementing an architecture that can span clouds. “Span clouds? Huh?” You’ve heard “private cloud”, “public cloud”, etc.. but a solution or an application or service that has portions … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 15 of 30: Hybrid for Private Cloud
Today we have a guest writer! Doug Hazelman of Veeam Software shares some ideas on why it’s important to have common management for your private cloud. Read their article HERE. And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for links to all of the articles available so far … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms part 12 of 30: Partner Spotlight – Veeam
“Seriously, Kevin? A ‘love story’?” Yes indeed. Are you and your sweetheart better together? So is Hyper-V and SCVMM. And that’s what Brian Lewis is discussing in Part 11 of our 30-part “Cloud on Your Terms” blog series. Read it HERE. Ahh.. l’Amore! And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 11 of 30: A Love Story
For those of you who missed any of these and want to catch up, here is a list that I will keep updated with links to the team’s (Me, Brian Lewis, John Weston, and Matt Hester) posts. And don’t forget to go to https://aka.ms/evals if you want to evaluate any of the foundational software to … Continue reading The Cloud on Your Terms: 30 Part Series
In part 10 of our series today, I wanted to kick of a sort-of-sub-series of my own. During our IT Camps this month (our afternoon portion of our TechNet Events), I’ve been taking some time to show off my personal test environment, and how I set it up. I’m finding that there is a lot … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 10 of 30: Kevin’s Mad House of Cloud
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