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How to build a FREE Private Cloud using Microsoft Technologies
12 September 11 11:24 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  This document will guide you through the process of setting up the bare minimum components to demo a Private Cloud environment using current release...

Filed under: Cloud Computing

Exchange Server Deployment Assistant now includes a “Cloud Only” scenario
29 August 11 06:47 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  For many companies, the robust messaging and calendaring features offered by Office 365 for enterprises presents an opportunity to transition all...

Filed under: Exchange, Cloud Computing

The new Microsoft Server and Cloud platform blog and RSS feed
29 August 11 10:49 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Microsoft is moving their Windows, virtualization, and System Center content to the new Microsoft Server Cloud platform area.  Here’s the new blog...

Filed under: System Center, Cloud Computing

Customers Reap Benefits from Microsoft’s Comprehensive Cloud Approach
29 August 11 10:23 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  Customers tell us they want to understand where virtualization ends and cloud computing begins. I hear it frequently: “How can I best invest today...

Filed under: Cloud Computing

Selling an outdated IT plan, from the back of a 70’s van
29 August 11 09:10 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Microsoft’s latest media push to bash VMWare and market cloud.  Funny stuff… Some IT providers claim they have a cloud solution but they really offer...

Filed under: VMWare, Cloud Computing

Microsoft launches new Server and Cloud platform site…System Center links now redirected
25 August 11 06:13 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Microsoft’s web site is now taking shape to match their push over the past couple years to link all products to some sort of Cloud brand. For example,...

Filed under: System Center, Cloud Computing

Microsoft turning the Cloud into a contest to win XBOX with Kinnect
25 August 11 04:50 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Your opportunity to win one of two Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Game Console Bundles! Starting next week on August 30 th at 9:00 a.m. PST, we’re kicking off our...

Filed under: Cloud Computing

Reach for the Cloud - System Center 2012 - Insufficient data from Andrew Fryer - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
07 July 11 08:49 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  For me the most interesting stuff in the System Center 2012 is the cloud stuff.  Some of this is obvious there’s cloud button in Virtual Machine...

Filed under: System Center, Cloud Computing

The Windows Management User Group Presents An Evening in the Cloud–March 17, 2011–London
08 March 11 08:55 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Come and Spend An Evening in The Cloud with Microsoft and WMUG 18:00 – 18:30 Registration 18:30 – 18:35 Introduction – Cliff Hobbs 18:35 – 19:20 Session...

Filed under: User Groups, Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Leaders on a Hiring Binge
07 March 11 02:45 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  While much of the U.S. economy experiences a “jobless recovery,” the cloud computing sector is hiring like mad. Demand for technologists with cloud...

Filed under: Job Market, Cloud Computing

What is your journey towards IT as a Service? Allow Microsoft to accelerate your journey!
30 November 10 02:05 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  If yesterday’s demand of IT was “do it cheaper”, today’s business/ application owner demands “faster & simpler & cheaper” services. If you...

Filed under: Microsoft, Cloud Computing

Microsoft Asks Spoon.Net to Take Internet Explorer Off the Cloud
16 November 10 09:44 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Spoon is one of those really innovative products/services that has some serious promise in the world of the Cloud.  I was first made aware of Spoon...

Filed under: Internet, Virtualization, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Cloud Computing

More Than Likely, You’re Already Running the Foundations for Private Cloud
08 November 10 04:55 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  Worried about having to implement lots of new software to build your private cloud? You may not have to. Enterprises that have standardized on Windows...

Filed under: Cloud Computing

A little myITforum.com #interop coverage fromThe Windows Server Notebook
22 October 10 07:34 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  Recently, myITforum.com founder Rod Trent posted a tweet that pretty much summed up the past year in IT events: “Every conference this past year...

Filed under: Community, myITforum.com, Cloud Computing

Participate in a System Center study on the effect of Cloud computing migrations
10 September 10 08:02 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

The System Center Research Team is conducting a study to understand the effect of cloud computing on how enterprise level IT departments structure their...

Filed under: System Center, Cloud Computing