On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start.  It is 100% free and open to the public, so register now! Sign up today. Event Overview Adopting … Continue reading Free Microsoft Private Cloud Training →

  In the first part of this series (here and here), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In the second part (here and here) I discussed the Core Principles for Private Cloud. In the third part (here and here) I discussed … Continue reading Private Cloud Architecture – Part 4: Patterns →

  In the first part of this series (here and here), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In the second part (here and here) I discussed the Core Principles for Private Cloud. In this post, I will discuss the main concepts … Continue reading Private Cloud Architecture – Part 3: Concepts →

In the first part of this series (here and here), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In this post, I will discuss the main principles behind Private Cloud Let’s agree first some terminology; the cloud promise is to provide computing as … Continue reading Private Cloud Architecture – Part 2: Principles →

Cloud Computing promises to increase quality and agility of the IT Services while decreasing the associated costs. We will discuss how to achieve that in this series. The promise that cloud computing is based upon will change the way we plan, design and consume computing power for the next decade. Yet, it is unclear from … Continue reading Private Cloud Architecture – Part 1: Introduction and Definitions →