With all the buzz currently in the industry about ‘cloud’ technology it’s worth keeping up to speed with industry certifications and, especially, ones which provide the core understanding for cloud based solutions.

In a technology refresh of the Data Protection Manager product, Microsoft have released not just updated support for their latest products but also new features and tweaks to existing features that DPM admins will no doubt find useful.

Something I’ve never blogged on but often take advantage of are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides.

One of the key buzz terms you can’t possibly miss at the current time is ‘Cloud Computing’. But – what really is ‘cloud’? It’s been defined by many in the press as a ‘new era’ of computing – but this is almost ironic as it’s seems the perceived solution that most are talking of is [...]

To enable and incentivize the deployment and growth of the Hyper-V and System Center products, Microsoft released a software license which brings together the key management and protection technologies. This is by no means a new license – in fact it first released in 2007 – but it has come to the fore in recent [...]

With the recent announcement of the beta release of Hyper-V R2 (alongside Windows Server 2008 R2 beta), Microsoft are revealing a bevy of new and improved features to their virtualization offering.