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As you may recall from part 16 ( Hyper-V Cloud ), one key aspect of what we define as “a cloud” has to do with it providing some level of “self-service”. You provide a portal or some other method of requesting and then being granted IT resources...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager ( SCVMM ) 2008 R2 is a powerful virtualization management tool. It does a great job of organizing and managing your virtualization hosts, clusters, virtual machines, and libraries of resources (virtual hard...
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As you may recall from Part 6 ( PaaS ), Windows Azure is Microsoft ’s implementation of Platform-as-a-Service. In a nutshell, it means that you build your application, configure your data, and load it up into “the cloud”, where it can be easily...
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Let me ask you something… Are you like many IT Pros I talk to Windows Azure about, who think, “Oh.. that’s cool. But it’s for developers. How am I going to manage it?” “Yeah.. that’s what I’m thinking!...
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Are you a developer? “No.” Well, perhaps you’re not.. but someone reading this blog is. And they may have seen my articles about Windows Azure or the Windows Azure Appliance and may be wondering how exactly they’re going to get started building...
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In part 6 of my “Cloudy April” series we talked about the PaaS solution from Microsoft , Windows Azure . And more and more companies are realizing the benefits of building applications that can run on stateless, easily scalable machine instances...
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Do you manage an Exchange organization? What about a company SharePoint? “Yeah.. but we’re a couple versions back.” You’re in good company. I hear that a lot. There are some amazing capabilities in the latest versions - Exchange...
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“Hey Kevn.. what does the TechNet Subscription have to do with the Cloud?” Where do you think it comes from? In all seriousness, though… the TechNet Subscription is an excellent way to get started with Microsoft solutions that are the...
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I am finding, as I travel and talk to IT Pros around my territory, that there are still a lot of things Microsoft does that people just don’t know about yet. “Like what?” Well.. did you know that you have 25GB of space that you can use for free...
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Is there any bigger fan of TechEd than me? “Nope.” You got that right. If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know what a huge fan of TechEd I am. I’ve been attending TechEd in the US since 1994; and only missed ‘96 and ‘97...
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Do I have your attention? "Yes." Need I say more? “Yes.” Oh.. okay. One of the big concerns that people have when considering Windows Azure as a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) is… “Security” Okay.. yeah.. that’s...
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Today I thought I’d throw some good resources around Microsoft ’s platform for virtualization : Hyper-V H yper-V getting Started Guide - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732470(WS.10).aspx Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V...
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“Kevin.. Was that title a reference to a certain 80’s song and award-winning video ?" It was. But I had to add the word “Cloud” to the phrase, because that’s what we’re talking about today: The Hyper-V Cloud . The idea here is that by...
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In my opinion, one of the most ingenious ways “the cloud” is being used is in providing services that link tightly or directly with resources that are in-house. “What does that mean?” Well… I’m talking about services are cloud-based, but which monitor...
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They’re back! Once again the road to TechEd is paved with Springboard Series goodness. The new tour starts May 2, 2011 in Toronto, and wings its around the country for several stops, delivering lots of great sessions and useful information...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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