Application Protection: There’s Something Happening Here

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware Yes, it’s blasphemy to simply change a classic like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What’s It Worth” – but I will anyway to prove my point. There’s something happening here If you haven’t [...]

Getting Exchange 2010 into the Private Cloud

Here’s the materials for my webcast on virtualizing Exchange. EMCLive-Exchange 2010 Private Cloud-final-clean On-Demand Webcast link Hope you found it helpful! •Virtualization and Private Cloud Review –Industry Trends –Cloud Computing Comparison –Journey to Private Cloud •Exchange 2010 Virtualization and Cloud Best Practices –A 6-Step Process to Virtualize Exchange –Customer Story •Frequently Asked Questions –Storage –Replication [...]

To Cloud or Not to Cloud…

[post by Dominick Dequarto] When I was a data center manager, the questions for every application were: How critical is the application’s availability? How critical is application’s data? There were layers of complexity, to be sure, but from those two questions, I would dole out resources to address both of those items for each application [...]

VPLEX and SharePoint Distance VMotion

Wondering how EMC’s storage federation device VPLEX might solve SharePoint DR concerns? A few of the engineers teamed up to create a reference architecture that shows you how it’s done. First, they listened to early customer feedback on what use cases might be most beneficial. What came up again and again – SharePoint (and SAP [...]

2010 Digital Universe Study Results = Too Much Information!

The 2010 results of an EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe Study are in and my quick reaction was like a single firefighter looking over a 100-acre wildfire – whoa, that is just too much information to take in. Between now and 2020, the amount of digital information created and replicated with grow to about 35 trillion [...]

Private Clouds are Rolling In

and application owners are running scared. But they shouldn’t be afraid of virtualized Tier 1 applications anymore.   Why? 1. It’s supported by Microsoft and OEM partners. 2. There’s plenty of horsepower in the newest hypervisors from VMware and Microsoft. 3. You can get better SLA’s in a virtual world at a lower cost. More [...]

Will Microsoft’s Bing be a Google Killer?

Probably not. Old habits are hard to break. But I do like this video preview of Microsoft’s NEW search engine which should be announced sometime today.  It was formerly code-named Kumo (I got several hits from kumo.com spiders) and has been rebranded to have a slightly goofier, monosyllabic name – Bing. In the 22 Immutable [...]

TWEEVO – The New Pop-Up Video

Off topic post – I’ve got an idea that could be explored by enterprising web-developers who wish to make some money riding the Twitter wave. You know Twitter – real-time updates across the web across a huge assortment of channels – and you know Tivo which essential turns TV into an on-demand database. What about [...]

Been Traveling… Some Quick Recaps

I’ve been traveling a bit lately and spending a lot of time working with customers and presentation materials… so I haven’t had too much time to come up with just one big topic.  Instead, I will offer you a few snack-sized morsels.  Enjoy. Cisco and Unified Computing and … Microsoft? Seems like everyone needs to [...]

Twitter 101- A Useless or Useful Tool?

For anyone who’s read the news online or offline, there’s a huge buzz about Twitter.  In this post I will try to describe what I’ve seen as far as how people use this Cloud based service. Here’s my take on what some, maybe most, people experience with Twitter their first time: People hear about it [...]

The Future Battle: Devices that Subscribe to Synchronized Content

In the end, he who successfully sells the package of “cool looking devices that subscribe to content” wins.  Hopefully I’m not simply stating the obvious on this one. Stick with me for a second… iPod Look how Steve Jobs revived Apple when he returned.  He knew that people would be totally into a portable cool-looking [...]

Predictions – Microsoft in 2009

I’m not feeling up to the challenge of predicting what Microsoft will do in 2009. Instead I will link you to some of more experienced Microsoft prognosticators, Mary Jo Foley and Todd Bishop.

Will Ray Ozzie save Microsoft?

Just finished reading Stephen Levy’s story in this months Wired magazine about Ray Ozzie, the new chief software architect at Microsoft and successor to Bill Gates.  He’s the one responsible for some of the more dramatic moves that the company has been promoting recently including Windows Azure, Zurich (Azure Services Platform), Live Mesh, and Office [...]

“In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online.”

as quoted by Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s senior veep with the Information Worker Product Management group…  it appears Microsoft is about ready to get serious about the web with a hybrid offline/online approach and SaaS offerings mixed with dedicated/shared/virtualized hosting models. Microsoft Watch Coverage Daily Exchange Server blog Information Week TechNet Webcast

The Crowd is Getting Into the Cloud

Many new companies are starting to test their hand at offering web-based application, storage, and services. While many companies including Amazon have done a decent job offering simple affordable solutions for small companies that don’t want to bother with bringing a highly available infrastructure in-house, their reliability, stability, and security still remains in question. Randy [...]

Microsoft PDC 2008 Conference Keynotes

Watch Ray Ozzie’s PDC keynote on Microsoft’s cloud computing service foundation “Microsoft Azure” Watch the keynote delivered on the second day of the PDC, covering Microsoft Windows 7 and Web applications for Office here.  Notes from the Windows team blog here.