Blog Tracker
This page is just a quick glance of the blogs and news I track on a day to day basis. Mostly tech, though there are some music, arts, and other miscellaneous feeds thrown in as well.
- DPM backup of Exchange databases can fail because of Exchange circular logging 2 Sep 2010, 10:37 pm
Just a quick note on an issue we’ve seen a time or two here in DPM product support. Backup administrators who have scheduled System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backups for Microsoft Exchang. […] - Kicking the tires on vShield Edge 2 Sep 2010, 8:25 pm
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — VMware demonstrated its new vShield Edge routing virtual firewall on the VMworld 2010 conference floor, and passersby stopped to give it a look.. […] - VCloud Director: The fine print 2 Sep 2010, 8:18 pm
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — After the splashy, high-level announcement of VMware’s vCloud Director on Tuesday morning, reality set in at a VMworld 2010 session by Kevin Le. […] - After Integrien, what’s next for VMware? 2 Sep 2010, 8:08 pm
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — After Tuesday’s VMworld 2010 keynote, there were few details on how VMware would integrate Integrien’s performance analytics code into its pr. […] - Microsoft takes its perennial shot at VMware 2 Sep 2010, 6:03 pm
It’s not quite the “Poker Chip Incident” of 2008, but Microsoft made its presence known at this year’s show with a full-page ad in USA Today, which was delivered directly to hotel rooms belong. […] - New DPM2010 Storage Calculator links (Sep-2010) 2 Sep 2010, 5:29 pm
Please find below direct links to DPM2010 storage calculators Exchange “http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851E02E6-4CCA-4846-83C5-3C92C8114899/DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Exchange_2010.. […] - SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2010 is just a few weeks away 1 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 7th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 20t. […] - Items of interest from VMworld 2010 1 Sep 2010, 5:34 pm
Hi – by now you might have read there’s 17,000 of us attending VMworld in San Francisco. Huge crowds, just as Rick Vanover predicted. Lots of energy and excitement as you can imagine. This post is des. […] - Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) updates in November, 2010 1 Sep 2010, 3:04 pm
The Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) will release new improvements in November, 2010. We have reached out to many partners and customers around the world through Live Meetings, interv. […] - VMware acquires Integrien 31 Aug 2010, 5:17 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — VMware is acquiring Integrien, an infrastructure management vendor. CTO Steve Herrod just made the announcement during his VMworld 2010 keynote. He didn’t say much about the acquis. […] - VCloud Director unveiled at VMworld 2010 31 Aug 2010, 5:13 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — The market’s worst-kept secret is a secret no longer. VMware officially announced vCloud Director at this morning’s VMworld 2010 keynote. VCloud Director lets you manage multiple. […] - VMworld 2010 by the numbers 31 Aug 2010, 4:32 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — Rick Jackson, VMware’s chief marketing officer, kicked off today’s VMworld 2010 keynote and shared some interesting numbers about the show and its history: 17,021: Registered att. […] - Embotics to support Hyper-V 30 Aug 2010, 10:32 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — In IT, a trend isn’t really a trend until vendors get behind it. Case in point: mixed virtual environments. We’ve done a lot of talking about organizations running VMware and Hyp. […] - Distributed Virtual Network: The future of VMware networking 30 Aug 2010, 7:16 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — VMware is working on a new platform designed to improve network virtualization. We got a glimpse of the company’s long-term strategy at this morning’s VMworld 2010 session called. […] - $500 Marketing Development Funds for Microsoft Small Business Specialists 30 Aug 2010, 3:36 pm
You may recall my ”Not only is SBSC staying, it is THE Small Business designation in the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN)” post back in May where I told you that Microsoft is not only keeping the. […] - Citrix to acquire VMLogix 30 Aug 2010, 1:37 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — Citrix Systems is acquiring VMLogix. Citrix made the VMLogix acquisition announcement today, the first day of the VMworld 2010 conference. The acquisition is expected to close later. […] - Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 28 Aug 2010, 3:22 am
I am often asked about File Server performance. The usual conversation evolves into a discussion on what registry settings would be recommend to make a file server work faster. We typically end up ta. […] - Microsoft Partner Network Transition Tool 27 Aug 2010, 5:52 pm
As you know, in October the Microsoft Partner Network membership changes will go into effect, and current Microsoft Partners that are Gold Certified Partners or Certified Partners today will be transi. […] - Free e-book: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 27 Aug 2010, 5:20 pm
Learn about the features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the web application platform, scalability and reliability, and interoperability with Windows 7. Sign in t. […] - How to properly configure DPM 2010 for successful client side recoveries 25 Aug 2010, 8:01 pm
Setting up System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! So many new features and “toys” to play with. I don’t know what to open first. Since it is something. […]