Posts made in January, 2012

Today – during the announcement of System Center 2012 RC availability) – seems the perfect occasion to announce our book called Microsoft Private Cloud Computing. Mid-2011 four MVP’s decided to make a joint effort at writing a practical book on deploying a Microsoft Private Cloud. The four authors are: Aidan Finn (MVP Virtual Machine @joey_elway) Patrick Lownds (MVP Cloud and Datacenter Managemet @patricklownds) Damian Flynn (MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management @damian_flynn) Hans Vredevoort (MVP Cluster @hvredevoort) Aidan writes the introductory chapters on Private Cloud, Hans deals with the Fabric Management (Servers, Storage, Network), Patrick explains the Service Management (VMM Library, Service Modelling) and Damian focuses on Private Cloud...

With so much focus on the new version of System Center, it can be pretty easy to forget about the current release versions. Its nice to see that these products are still well respected, which only can act as a really great foundation of what is on offer in the new suite of System Center tools; which incidentally reached the RC milestone today! Read more –...

Mark you calendars … January 17th is a big day for System Center.  There will be a public web cast with Satya Nadella (President of Server and Tools) and Brad Anderson (CVP of System Center and management) on that day to lay out the new System Center 2012 vision. You definitely won’t want to miss this! Register for it here  http://www.microsoft.com/business/events/en-us/PrivateCloudExec  and lock in 2 hours from 4:30 PM GMT   The definition, business value, and technology benefits of the “the cloud” have been hotly debated in recent months. Most agree that cloud computing can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and increase business agility in the market. In 2012, cloud computing will transition from hype and discussion, to part of...

What a great year 2011 was; I had the opportunity and pleasure to meet a lot of very talented people, while having a lot of fun working on a range of new products from Microsoft ranging from Windows 8 through to the suite of new System Center 2012 products.  There are far to many people to name, both from within the Microsoft Organisation; the MVP Community, and most importantly you, my peers; but I do want to say a massive thank you to each one of you. 2011 wrapped up on a real high with winning the MMS 2012 Tickets for the SC Orchestrator 2012 CEP; so roll on April, Vegas here I come! 2012 is going to be very exciting, with the Release of System Centre 2012, Windows 8, and of course our Book! (More on this in the coming weeks!) And of course receiving this...