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Blog: I am going to run through a quick 2-minute synopsis of a few of the most important Hyper-V features in Windows 8 Beta (now Windows Server 2012) for a customer, and thought I would share with the community at the same time. Below you’ll find a brief description covering the high points of the solution and a short recorded video where you can see the feature in action. What is Hyper-V Replica? Hype...

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Blog: Here is a series of video shorts from some of the MVPs on the Infront team demonstrating some of the new virtualization-related features in Hyper-V v3 on Windows Server 2012 (aka Windows 8) including: Hyper-V Replica, Storage Live Migration, Controlling Network Bandwidth for VMs, Dynamic Memory Enhancements and Failover-related topics. To access: Click the link Scroll to the top of the page (Yout...

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Blog: The first keynote of MMS 2012 represented the 10 year anniversary for MMS! Specific points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: System Center 2012 was officially announced: A USB Key provided for MMS attendees with all of the System Center 2012 software Windows Server 2012 name announced! (Previously referred to as “Windows Server 8”) This implies that Windows Server 2012...

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Blog: This book provides a look at considerations, processes and tools for migrating applications to Azure. Great for IT pros who want to know a bit more about what is involved in migrating on premise applications to Windows Azure. Download for free at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29252

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Blog: If so, consider using the following hash tags to have your content followed by the greater System Center community at large. Component Hashtag System Center all up or broad awareness (should be included in every tweet related to SC) #sysctr These are only included in tweets that are specific to a particular component: Virtual Machine Manager #scvmm Service Manager #scsm Operations Manager #scom D...

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Blog: The latest installment of the System Center Virtual User Group kicks off today! Today you’ll see demo heavy sessions on the new MP authoring tools in OpsMgr 2012, how to extend ConfigMgr 2012 to manage your 3rd party devices (iPads, iPhones, MAC, etc. etc.), as well as the latest release of the Veeam nworks MP for monitoring VMware ESX / vSphere. Should be a great show…details below. Registration...

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Blog: Here’s an infographic with some interesting tips, facts and statistics on cloud and virtualization from Solarwinds. It shows private cloud in the lead over public and hybrid…I thought it would be the opposite. Via Visual.ly

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Blog: If you read part 1 and completed the hands-on labs, you now have a foundation in Orchestrator runbook functionality and authoring. In part 2, we are going to build on this functionality. This installment will discuss advanced runbook concepts that will allow you to incorporate advanced decision logic into modular runbooks that will support reuse. HAND ON LABS: As mentioned in part 1, to reinforce...

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Blog: The majority already have at least a toe in the water...more than 60% having already implemented at least one cloud solution, in trials, or planning an implementation. via Symantec

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Blog: The rise of the cloud is even faster than I though. This infographic from CSC predicts that by 2020 roughly 1/3 of all data produced will live in or pass through the cloud. The size of that data will be 32 Zettabytes, which is roughly 1 trillion gygabytes of data! Via CSC