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Private Cloud–Nothing to see please move along
One of the reasons the term Private Cloud is getting a bad press is that it’s all marketing fluff and isn’t real. In any data centre you are going to be doing thing like.. deploying applications fixing...
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System Center 2012 RC Announcement and Resources
A short while ago in Satya Nadella, Microsoft Server & Tools Business president and Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management and Security Division hosted a live webcast,...
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MVA: Configuring and deploying Microsoft's Private Cloud
Microsoft Virtual Academy have a track dedicated to deploying Private Cloud scenario’s. The track covers:Configuring and deploying Microsoft's Private Cloud Private Cloud: Infrastructure Components...
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Event: IT Camp Leeds Feb 28th
Back in December Simon and I invited a few friends along to help us beta test a different kind of event, an IT Camp. The idea is simply to do smaller, more interactive events where discussions and...
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Newsletter: Transforming IT with Private Cloud
The latest TechNet Flash Newsletter is now out and available for you to take a look at online, this one was all about Private Cloud and the details of Systems Center RC. You will also find a list of...
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Exploiting Orchestrator - Tips to avoid the hidden bear traps
Following on from my last post about getting started with System Center 2012 Orchestrator, I asked a good friend of mine Greg Charman from Kelverion , to share some of his experience. System Center...
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The Week that Was 6th - 13th Feb
Last week was a bit of an events week! We featured 3 different styles of events from architecture to technical and management. None of which should be missed at all! We also put out the TechNet...
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Microsoft System Center and BMC Management Tools Integration and Interaction
In his second guest post Greg Charman from Kelverion has a look at BMC integration. Many customers have made large investments in both Microsoft System Center and BMC Datacenter Management Tools....
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Managing a hybrid cloud with System Center 2012
Hybrid cloud is the term applied to the increasingly common scenario where a business runs some of its services in the public cloud but retains some on premise, although it is also possible to use...
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Best of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) UK 2012
Join us for the upcoming launch of System Center 2012.Learn about 2012's exciting wave of Microsoft Private Cloud product launches and announcements – starting with the release of System Center...
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Data Centre Resource Planning and System Center 2012
Most of us like have the proper tools for the job; trying to undo Phillips screws with a penknife, using your gold card to get the ice off the windscreen or using notepad to write F# is no fun. I would...
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Notes from IT Camp, Leeds 28th Feb
Simon and I did our first IT camp in Leeds on Tuesday, and I would like to say thank you to those that cam along as you were the beta testers for this new kind of event. As you can see we had a much...
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System Center Advisor– now live
I remember hearing about a Project Houston about a year ago, a cunning plan to allow Microsoft to check the heath of your SQL Server databases and the operating system it sits on. It is now live and...
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Private Cloud IT Camps
I have covered some of what we do at IT camps in a couple of previous posts, but what we did in Birmingham and London this week was to launch a new kind of camp, on Private Cloud. This builds on...
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Case Study: Council Expands Shared Services and Makes Significant Savings...
BUSINESS CHALLENGEStaffordshire County Council wanted to reduce costs through virtualisation—improving manageability and resilience by moving its infrastructure to the private cloud. It also looked to...
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Business Intelligence for the Private Cloud part 1
If you have looked at any of the new components of System Center 2012 you may have noticed that everyone seems to have a bunch of reports, some of them have data marts or data warehouses and some of...
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Hyper-V security
Curiously one of the topics we hardly ever get asked about at our IT Camps is security in Hyper-V. Perhaps it’s because you all have total confidence in our approach security, or you already have the...
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Create and Scale Business Solutions Fast, On Your Terms Across Server,...
The next wave of SQL Server investments will offer organizations the agility to quickly create and scale solutions that solve challenges and fuel new business opportunity from server to private or...
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Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager IT Camp - An evaluation...
The IT Pro Team are either on holiday or at IT Camps at the moment so I’m left holding the fort. I thought I would use this as an opportunity to let you know about an event we are running on the 2nd...
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Case Study: Skipton Building Society U.K. Building Society Increases Business...
Skipton Building Society needed a self-service portal for development environments for its mortgage services division HML. Its IT Shared Service Centre was tasked with finding a solution that would...
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