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You Are Sitting on a Goldmine: How Information Analytics Will Improve IT Service Support Jarod...
Date: 05/25/2016
Example of what Marketing can learn from IT!
Recently I published an article which talked about the learnings that can take place when two...
Date: 12/11/2015
Hire for Empathy, Teach for Tech: Next-Generation Skills for IT Service Desk Professionals
Jarod Greene is the Vice President of Product Marketing for Cherwell Software,™ a leader in IT...
Date: 10/13/2015
EVENTS: Availability on Demand - almost infinite scale and secure/encrypted/long term retention of data – hands on event on using the Microsoft Cloud to support your DR strategy
Using Microsoft datacenters as an integral part of your Disaster Recovery Plan: Free hands-on event...
Date: 08/14/2015
What IT Can Learn From Marketing - “How can my team improve its standing within the business?”
IT organizations have been asking this question for 20 years, if not more. Yet with all the...
Date: 07/27/2015
Want to learn more about Microsoft Azure?
A Tour of Azure for IT Pros As part of an extended AngelBeat gathering, the evangelists at Microsoft...
Date: 07/24/2015
Are you in Chicago for Ignite? Then check out the Monster IT Camp!
Spend the day with over a hundred of your closest IT buddies and learn how to get your organization...
Date: 04/28/2015
Extending Your Data Center with Azure - Try It Yourself with Labs!
From time to time, you may have an opportunity to attend one of our in-person events - IT Camp....
Date: 04/15/2015
Next Week -- Hybrid Cloud with Azure: Live, Hands-On Events
Did you love the Hybrid Cloud Blog Series? Do you wish you could learn more in person? Get...
Date: 04/10/2015
Six Handy Step-by-Step Guides for using Azure as part of a Hybrid Cloud
Did you blink and miss it? Last Friday was the end of the most recent blog series for IT Pros - on...
Date: 03/31/2015
Week Three of Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros is in Full Force!
If you've been following along since week one, you know this series is quickly coming to a...
Date: 03/26/2015
Hybrid Cloud for the IT Pro: Catch up with Week Two!
Today brings Week Two of the Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros Blog Series to a close. This week, we've...
Date: 03/20/2015
Hybrid Cloud for the IT Pro: Everything You Want to Know about Azure Networking
Networking functionality can be one of the make it or break it components of your hybrid cloud...
Date: 03/17/2015
Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros: Week Two Begins!
Our second week of the Hybrid Cloud for the IT Professional blog series starts off with Tommy...
Date: 03/16/2015
Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros: Week One
Today brings Week One of the Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros Blog Series to a close. For today, Jennelle...
Date: 03/13/2015
The Hybrid Cloud for the IT Professional: The Blog Series
Over the next three weeks, the US IT Pro Evangelists will be running a blog series on extending your...
Date: 03/12/2015
Hybrid Cloud for the IT Pro: Extend Traditional Active Directory to the Cloud
Today in Part 3 of the blog series, Kevin Remde show us how to extend your existing Active Directory...
Date: 03/11/2015
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Additional Resources to Help You Migrate!
Today marks the conclusion of our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series. Over the...
Date: 09/30/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating SQL Databases to Microsoft Azure (Part 32)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, follow along...
Date: 09/29/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Exchange Server to the Cloud (Part 31)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton...
Date: 09/26/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Web Servers to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure (Part 30)
Lots of organizations may have web servers running on Windows Server 2003 today. With End-of-Support...
Date: 09/25/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating File Servers to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure (Part 29)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Tommy...
Date: 09/24/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Active Directory, DNS and DHCP to Windows Server 2012 R2 (Part 28)
Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support is quickly approaching on July 14th, 2015 ... does your...
Date: 09/23/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Intro to Migrating Server Workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure (Part 27)
In today's episode of our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton...
Date: 09/22/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Monitoring Hybrid Cloud with System Center 2012 R2 (Part 26)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Dan Stolts...
Date: 09/19/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Configuration Management with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Part 25)
Make it so! Traditional configuration management of server and application workloads can be...
Date: 09/18/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with Hybrid Cloud Automation (Part 24)
When migrating to Hybrid Cloud, developing automated standards for provisioning and managing...
Date: 09/17/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with On-demand Private Clouds using Windows Azure Pack (Part 23)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series,we’ll...
Date: 09/16/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Hybrid Cloud Management and Automation (Part 22)
In today's episode in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Yung Chou...
Date: 09/15/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Using Custom VM Images and Resource Groups in Microsoft Azure (Part 21)
As you plan your migration to Hybrid Cloud, you may find that your organization has certain specific...
Date: 09/12/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating VMware & Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure (Part 20)
Today’s topic in our series focuses on migrating existing VMware and Amazon AWS server...
Date: 09/11/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Azure Pack Simplified: Prepping OS Image Disks for VM Gallery Items (Part 19)
As you begin preparing your network environment for server migrations to Windows Server 2012 R2 and...
Date: 09/10/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Physical Servers to Virtual Machines (Part 18)
As you begin planning your migration from legacy versions of Windows Server, you may find that you...
Date: 09/09/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Hybrid Cloud Virtualization (Part 17)
In today's episode of our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton...
Date: 09/08/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Cross-Premises Connectivity with Azure ExpressRoute (Part 16)
With Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, organizations can create private, high-throughput network...
Date: 09/05/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Cross-Premises Connectivity with Azure Site-to-Site VPN (Part 15)
Hybrid Cloud is all about leveraging the "best of both worlds" by combining the...
Date: 09/04/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Building Virtual Networks in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure (Part 14)
When running application workloads on Microsoft Azure, virtual networks deliver the ability for...
Date: 09/03/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Reserve a Public IP Address in Microsoft Azure (Part 13)
Some application scenarios may require, or desire, a static public IP address, so that you have...
Date: 09/02/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Cross-Premises Networking with Site-to-Site VPN and ExpressRoute (Part 12)
Kevin Remde and I kick-off Networking week in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud...
Date: 09/01/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Backup to the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Backup (Part 11)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Dan Stolts...
Date: 08/30/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Cross-Premises Data Mobility with Microsoft Azure StorSimple (Part 10)
In today's article in our continuing blog series on Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid...
Date: 08/29/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Provision SMB Shared Folders in the Cloud with Azure Files (Part 9)
Yesterday, Matt Hester discussed the advantages of SMB shared folders in an on-premises datacenter...
Date: 08/28/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Hyper-V over SMB (Part 8)
In today's article in our continuing series on Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid...
Date: 08/27/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Part 7)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Matt Hester...
Date: 08/26/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Hybrid Cloud Storage Architecture (Part 6)
Kevin Remde and Dan Stolts continue our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series...
Date: 08/25/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Common Application Workloads and Scenarios for Microsoft Azure (Part 5)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Jennelle...
Date: 08/22/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Estimating Cloud Costs with Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool (Part 4)
How much can I really expect to save by migrating workloads to the Cloud? In today's article in...
Date: 08/21/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - FREE Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Assessment (Part 3)
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Kevin Remde...
Date: 08/20/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Assessing Current IT Infrastructure with MAP Toolkit (Part 2)
Every successful migration project starts with an effective PLAN. In today's article in our...
Date: 08/19/2014
Microsoft IT Introduction - Modernizing our Datacenter
What is Microsoft IT? We support the IT infrastructure and applications that run the business of...
Date: 08/18/2014