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Microsoft Azure Developer Camp: Build a Cloud-Native App in Microsoft Azure – Microsoft Virtual Academy – Check it out
Developers, do you want to quickly build and deploy apps to the cloud? Well you need to check out...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 08/13/2014
Blain Barton’s “live” events including ones at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Miami – Join me!
If you are interested in attending my first event at the new Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 08/12/2014
Step-By-Step- Azure SQL Database introduces geo-restore, standard geo-replication, and auditing -
Check out the Microsoft Azure Blog and the Azure SQL Database Business Continuity, Preview features,...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 08/12/2014
ITPalooza - South Florida’s Top IT Talent – Call for Speakers and Sponsors – 3rd Annual – December 4th, 2014 – Giving to Charity!
The 3rd Annual ITPalooza will be bigger and better than ever before ….. It will be hosted at NSU’s...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 08/05/2014
Microsoft Azure Announces Zone Redundant Storage now General Availability..
Azure Storage now offers Zone Redundant Storage for general availability.Microsoft offers Locally...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 08/05/2014
TechEd 2015? – It’s now time for an even bigger and better all encompassing all conferences – Microsoft Ignite - May 4th-8th 2015 in Chicago - read more…
Microsoft Ignite is our commercial technology event that brings together our audiences, content and...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 07/22/2014
Check out the Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle Washington. Read more…
This year's finalists for this global student technology competition get to visit Microsoft...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 07/21/2014
Microsoft acquires InMage: Better business continuity with Azure.. Read the official blog story ….
Microsoft has acquired InMage, an innovator in the emerging area of cloud-based business continuity...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 07/15/2014
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview… Learn more!
Microsoft announced the public preview of Machine Learning, a fully managed service for advanced...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 07/14/2014
New Microsoft Azure Portal adds Virtual Machines to the Gallery.. Read on…
IaaS is added to the Microsoft Azure Portal for creating Virtual Machines, it’s here! Create,...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 07/14/2014
Windows 8 Apps of the week! The long list - Check them out!
As Microsoft closes the FY14 year today on June 30th, I thought I would share the latest apps with...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/30/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 9) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Scaling Cloud Applications
In part 9 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer and Yung...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/26/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 10) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Monitoring, Measuring & Learning for Continuous Improvement
Concluding our special “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/26/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 8) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Rollback Plan? What rollback plan?
In part 8 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer and...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/24/2014
Microsoft Early Experts is a great program to enhance your skills and earn a completion badge, Read on…
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/24/2014
This weeks Top Windows 8 Apps – Check them out! I like the A&E History app. come on – Swamp People? For sure!
These are some real cool apps that you should check out! · A&E History - A&E History with...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/23/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 7) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Configuration Management
In part 7 of our "Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud" series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/23/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 6) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Automating for Predictability
Continuing our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Yung Chou welcomes Sr....
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/20/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 5) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Testing in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Online
In Part 5 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Tommy Patterson...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/19/2014
MVA Jump Start for Windows 8.1 going on today, Weds and Thursday! Tune In – It’s Free and informative for IT Pros …..
Register now! (linkto:...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/17/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 4) “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” with Keith Mayer and Jeff Fattic, check it out…..
In Part 4 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer welcomes...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/17/2014
Live! TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Enabling Self-Service On-Demand Developer Environments in the Clould – Blain Barton and Keith Mayer
In Part 3 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Blain Barton and Keith...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/17/2014
Windows 8 Apps of the week! I love Shula’s!……
Citi on Campus Citi on Campus is a mobile recruiting app for prospective students looking to...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/16/2014
Reminder - MVA Jump Start – Are you ready for BYOD? Signup for this free event – June 16th,17th and 18th….
RU ready 4 BYOD? If you are tasked with implementing BYOD in your organization, you need the...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/16/2014
Article – Would you like to monitor your billing on your Microsoft Azure Subscription? Set an Alert.. Read on..
For the past 2 years, customers have been really interested in testing and adopting Microsoft Azure....
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/13/2014
Accelerating DevOps with the Cloud- with Matt Hester and Keith Mayer.. watch this!
Matt Hester and Keith Mayer continue our special “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/11/2014
Last Call for Cloudwalker! Begin thy quest and have a chance to win an XBOX ONE
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/11/2014
Windows 8.1 apps of the week! Check them out…
Apps of the week! Cook with YumvY FANCY SumAll Avis Like to cook at home? YumvY makes it easy to...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/09/2014
Windows 8.1 Deployment In Action: Introduction (Part 1) with Matt Hester…
Matt is working up a Windows 8.1 Deployment Series, so I’ll post them out as well, Here’s the first...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/09/2014
Enhance your virtualization skills – and your IT career, Read on…
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/09/2014
Scripting Cmdlet Style – Nice Scripting Guys! Ed Wilson and Powershell.. nice….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpTS4O1nFyc&feature=youtu.be
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/06/2014
TechNet Radio – Jessica Devita interviews Gene Kim from “The Phoenix Project” – DEVOPS -, tune in…
Jessica DeVita welcomes Gene Kim, co-author of "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/05/2014
Who is Chronos? Devourer of Time and Destroyer of Reality – Check out Cloudwalker….
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/04/2014
MVA Jump Start: Windows 8.1 Update for Enterprise June 17,18,19….. Register Now!
Windows 8.1 Update for Enterprise Jump Start My peer Tommy Patterson is delivery this so you’ll want...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 06/02/2014
Who is Messglore?– Master of Server closet chaos – Find out more at Cloudwalker…
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/26/2014
How can Microsoft Early Experts help prepare for the Microsoft exams? Read on…
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/24/2014
Who is Tickakomus? The God of forgotten passwords! Find out more at Cloudwalker….
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/22/2014
Microsoft Early Experts is a free online study group for Windows Server 2012 R2
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/21/2014
Test your knowledge, Check out Cloudwalker and have a chance to win an XBOX ONE
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/20/2014
Cloudwalker – Fight your way to glory and perhaps an XBOX ONE
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/16/2014
Enhance your virtualization skills – Check out Early Experts
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/15/2014
Win an XBOX ONE while enhancing your Windows Server and System Center skills with Cloudwalker!
https://www.questofthecloudwalker.com/ Hark beleaguered IT Professionals! We know of the evils which...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/14/2014
Microsoft Azure now offers Windows 7 and 8.1 for Test/Dev.. Read on….
If you have a BizSpark or MSDN subscription you can spin up VM’s for Windows 7 and 8.1 for a...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/13/2014
Early Experts is a great way to enhance your Windows Server 2012 R2 skills… Read on…
What is Early Experts? Microsoft Early Experts is a free, online study group for virtualization...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/13/2014
TechEd North America 2014 – LIVE – Sessions Schedule here!
At this year’s TechEd we’re going to take the wraps off a range of new products and services, and we...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/12/2014
Live – TechEd North America! - Houston Texas! Check it out!
TechEd North America LIVE! https://channel9.msdn.com/?WT.mc_id=tena_hp Get your Windows Azure Trail...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/12/2014
Microsoft Azure and O365 Integration Roadshow – Last Stop in West Palm Beach 5/8! Signup here…
Integrate Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365! 5/8 – Thurs - West Palm Beach – Keiser...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/07/2014
DreamSpark, No Cost. No Catch. Activate and have a chance to win an Xbox One – Titanfall Edition!
Download and install Visual Studio Pro 2013 from your DreamSpark Subscription and send in the info...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/07/2014
Microsoft Azure and O365 Event – Orlando 5/7 and West Palm 5/8. Register Now…
Integrate Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365! As we move through the cities in Florida, enjoy...
Author: Blain Barton Date: 05/06/2014