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Xerox Improves Developer Efficiency by 40 percent, Reduces Costs with DevOps
If your developers are in India, your IT operations team is in the United States, and your customers...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 04/11/2013
Why Domino’s Pizza® Decided to Move 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V
Your stomach rumbles. Your mind dreams of pizza. Your fingers type “dominos.com.” If the...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 04/10/2013
Is Your IT Vendor Selling You Snake Oil?
My father loves Western movies, so I watched a lot of them growing up. Westerns tend to have...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 04/09/2013
MMS 2013: Microsoft Delivers Infrastructure Solutions to Customers
As this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) kicks off in Las Vegas, Nevada, there is a...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 04/08/2013
Seeing is Believing – See a Real Microsoft Private Cloud in Action at the HP ‘Serverquarium’ at MMS
“Seeing is believing” is a phrase that we all use regularly in the world of information...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 04/03/2013
Are You vConfused?
Naturally, I watched with interest yesterday’s VMware announcement about a new hybrid cloud...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 03/14/2013
Customers Find Value & Savings with Windows Server Hyper-V
Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Drive IT and Business Agility for Academic and Financial Services...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 03/07/2013
Announcing Forefront Unified Access Gateway Service Pack 3
We are pleased to announce that Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 02/21/2013
Is Paul Maritz Endorsing Microsoft's Approach to the Cloud?
Well, he is ex-Microsoft, so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that Maritz’s thoughts run...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 02/15/2013
How to Manage Multiple Servers on Windows Server 2012
Check out this great infographic from Marcus Austin of Firebrand Training. It appeared on Server...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 02/08/2013
Early Bird Registration Has Been Extended for MMS 2013
Attendees are eager to learn about sessions at MMS this year. We’re happy to announce the...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 02/04/2013
Announcing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Service Pack 1
We are pleased to announce that Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 is...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/31/2013
Independent Study: The Total Economic Impact of Windows Server 2012
Can upgrading your server operating system improve your IT efficiency? You bet it can. A...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/31/2013
Register before January 31, 2013 for the Microsoft Management Summit and Save $300 USD*
MMS is tailored specifically to IT Professionals and provides some of the deepest level of technical...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/29/2013
Be Careful of Cloudwashing!
Looking back at the so-called Infrastructure-as-a-Service announcement Oracle made a few weeks ago,...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/28/2013
Deploying Windows 8 with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
My oldest son started high school this fall. As you can probably imagine, there was a bit of anxiety...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/28/2013
Join Me at MMS 2013 for a Week of Innovation, Expertise, and Community
I am really looking forward to this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) at the Mandalay...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/22/2013
Q & A – Featured Guest Aidan Finn
As a follow up to his first conversation with guest Rand Morimoto of Convergent Computing, Joel...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/22/2013
How Xbox can transform your datacenter
On January 15th, Microsoft announced several new products and services that continue to drive...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/17/2013
Research: Multi-Hypervisor Usage Shows Need for Consolidated Heterogeneous Management Solution
I’m seeing an interesting trend taking hold in organizations, which is the increasing...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 01/10/2013
Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Named CRN Products of the Year
This week CRN named Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 to its annual Products of the Year...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 12/20/2012
Migrating to Microsoft's Windows Server 2012
Hi, I’m Joel Sider, Senior Marketing Manager, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft....
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 12/19/2012
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica Helps Customers Make it Through Disaster
When the winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy bore down ferociously on New York City, Microsoft...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 12/06/2012
We Can’t Wait to See You at MMS
Experience the latest technology solutions at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). This year...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 12/06/2012
TechNet Radio: Delivering the Cloud OS
The Cloud OS is Microsoft’s vision for providing customers with a consistent platform for...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 12/03/2012
VMware (finally) admits that its costs are higher than Microsoft’s
Recently we came across the updated VMware cost per application calculator and discovered what our...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/15/2012
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Delivers On Scalability and Performance for Virtualized Enterprise Applications
In a previously published blog on enterprise application performance, we’ve talked about...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/08/2012
Windows Azure Service Bus Comes to Windows Server
As you have likely seen by now, every group at Microsoft that touches aspects of our datacenter...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/24/2012
Announcing the Public Availability of Workflow Manager 1.0
Today is a great day in my organization as we’re able to publically announce the release of...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/24/2012
In case you missed it: Richard Fichera of Forrester on Windows Server 2012
We hope you are enjoying all the industry buzz surrounding the Sept. 4 release of Windows Server...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/17/2012
Customer Spotlight: Marquette University reins in storage costs with Windows Server 2012, goes with Hyper-V over VMware
I recently blogged about some of the positive sentiments and comments Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/16/2012
Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple
Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple – learn more here:...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/16/2012
Survey data in NetworkWorld says: Watch out VMware, because Microsoft is coming.
There seems to be no doubt about it. With the recent launch of Windows Server 2012 and the new...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/10/2012
MMS 2013 in Las Vegas, April 8-12
Those who say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas have got it right again. I am excited to...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/09/2012
Bringing Windows Azure Services to Windows Server – Beta Release
As part of the product management team for Windows Server & System Center, it’s been very...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/08/2012
Windows Server 2012 Ask the Expert Sessions
Two weeks ago we ushered in the era of the Cloud OS with the launch of Windows Server 2012. By now,...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/18/2012
Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps
Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/12/2012
Customer Insights on Windows Server 2012, Virtualization and Private Clouds Presented in an Infographic
The last couple of weeks have been exciting times for those of us at Microsoft who have been working...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/10/2012
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Beta and Windows Intune Update
With Windows 8, Windows RT devices, and Windows Phone 8 coming soon, we are excited to give you a...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/10/2012
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta available - evaluate with Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Private Cloud is built on the industry leading foundation of Windows Server and...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/10/2012
Windows Azure Online Backup
It’s sometimes easier to think about cloud computing in all or nothing terms – move...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/07/2012
Windows Server 2012 Facts and Figures
With the the launch of Windows Server 2012 this week, customers are already using Windows Server...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/06/2012
Windows Server 2012 and Dell – A Powerful Portfolio of Private Cloud Solutions
With the launch of Windows Server 2012, we are excited about the great relationship we have with...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/05/2012