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Building a Web-Scale Private Cloud with Microsoft Solutions

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:27:29 +0000

I recently had the pleasure to present a session entitled "Building a Web-Scale Private Cloud with Microsoft Solutions" at the MVPDays RoadShow in a number of different cities in Canada. It was a lot of fun to go from city to city presenting with amazingly smart Microsoft MVPs. Here is the video for the session in Vancouver, CA.

Nutanix SCVMM + SMI-S Integration Demo Video

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:02:08 +0000

Earlier this week I published a video with the new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Nutanix (here). Today, I am publishing a video demo with the new Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager integration with full support for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). The integration into the Microsoft stack is deep and the first piece I want to talk about is the Operations Manager Management Pack.

Nutanix SCOM Management Pack Demo Video

Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:56:30 +0000

I previously provided an overview of the new Microsoft System Center integration with Nutanix via SCOM and SCVMM (here). Nutanix 4.1 offers a single pane of glass management for Microsoft datacenter environments with full support for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). The integration into the Microsoft stack is deep and the first piece I want to talk about is the Operations Manager Management Pack.

Join me for the MVP Days Community Road Show

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:01:48 +0000

For the first time I am attending a MVP Days Community Road Show, happening during the next couple weeks in different Canadian cities. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is Microsoft's way of saying thank you to exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others. It is part of Microsoft’s commitment to supporting and enriching technical communities.

APAC Virtualisation Podcast (Nathan Mercer from Microsoft) – Wed 31/3

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:44:00 +0000

The next guest is Nathan Mercer, a Technology Evangelist from Microsoft, he will talk with us about Hyper-V, Cluster Shared Volume and Live Migrate. He also promises to bring a virtualised licensing person (the license is virtualised, not the person) to help us better understand Microsoft licensing in a virtualised space.

Did Microsoft & Citrix just say No to Cisco UCS?

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:33:00 +0000

More details on RemoteFX are revealed, and unless I have missed something on the way I am presuming that the joint desktop virtualisation strategy between Microsoft and Citrix is saying a big NO to the high density blade systems such as Cisco UCS.