Test from my phone
Entering a post from my phone… The device is small, and it makes difficult to type a lot. Adding an image is easy. Formatting is challenging. For a quick post to catch a though, very useful!
Microsoft Online – $4B startup and counting
It is simply amazing to see how much is Microsot investing into its online division. Based on the the latest Microsoft quarterly result published last week, the operating loss for the online services division was $726M in the 3rd quarter alone, and a loss $1.8B for the current year. If we look back to when the…
Tweets Archive: 2011-04-30
Tweets for the last week: 04/24/11 19:02:59 Relaxing Sunday. Catching up on my reading. 04/24/11 19:05:10 Whiteboard art. Talent and patience. 04/24/11 19:15:41 Send links from iPad http://t.co/B1rtsOK 04/24/11 19:26:46 RT @jack: People around the world spend 3 hours walking for water. Take 3 min to learn why from @charitywater. Video: http://t.co/dYny8yT 04/24/11 19:32:15 Bookmarklets…
Tip my hat to Amazon.com – Showed Real Class
After a heck of an outage last week, Amazon published they root-cause and postmortem yesterday – less than 5 days after the actual outage, and *after* they have completely stabilize the after-math of the outage. I have to tip my hat to how Amazon for the content transparentness, analysis and the expressly stated apology to their customer. We go…
Shout-out to ThisWeekIn.com Podcast Network
Jason Calacanis, an established, proven entrepreneur and angel investor who has started, sold and funded startups, and his crew produce a phenomenal set of podcast shows, out of their web property: ThisWeekIn.com Two of my favorites, which I listen to whenever I get the chance are: This Week in Startups (TWIST), offers aspiring entrepreneurs invaluable…
Tweets: 2011-04-22
Tweet archives for the last couple weeks: 04/11/11 02:27:57 Backing up my tweets with @Backupify http://backupify.com – Twitter backup is free! 04/12/11 03:40:28 75% of Enterprises Have ‘Bring Your Own Device’ Policies. What That Means. (Charts) | ZDNet http://zd.net/dPrm0Z 04/12/11 03:50:57 Amazon has lofty interests – Technology – NewsObserver.com http://bit.ly/gqJTmY 04/12/11 04:19:10 Dropbox: Insecure by…
Tweets 2011-04-10
Tweets for the last couple of weeks: 03/27/11 00:09:06 Excellent real story! How to launch a startup for $42.15, and get 250,000 users http://bit.ly/gDWVr5 03/27/11 00:13:12 Export and Analyze Social Media Analytics | Export.ly http://bit.ly/fNty0h 03/28/11 21:09:37 In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses: Tech News and Analysis « http://bit.ly/fzLcyB 03/29/11 13:03:15 Amazon service lets…
Tweets Archives: March 2011
March Tweets: 03/01/11 05:08:51 Wikipedia wants 1 billion users, 200,000 editors by 2015 – TechSpot http://bit.ly/fF2HEe 03/01/11 05:15:40 Forrester: IT staff must become ‘teachers’ to the business http://bit.ly/eJlazD 03/01/11 05:19:19 Microsoft Readies Windows Intune for March Launch http://bit.ly/e1eYYS 03/01/11 05:31:45 Softricity’s SoftGrid 10 years after the Wow! (A look back at Softricity by an insider)…
Tweets Archive: Feb 2011
The following are the tweets I sent in February: 02/01/11 06:57:19 Google Docs gets a dose of Gmail features – TechSpot News http://bit.ly/eo0Jqd 02/01/11 07:18:28 Can you swap your laptop with an iPad? http://bit.ly/fUHfsT 02/02/11 07:10:30 Mozy Drops Unlimited Storage, Destroys Cloud Dream – PCWorld Business Center http://bit.ly/hiLs9e 02/04/11 05:16:12 How to hack the $250…
Tweets: 2011-01-30
Tweets sent the last couple of weeks: 01/16/11 07:45:28 Top 10 Clever Uses for the Cloud http://lifehac.kr/fQzKXn 01/16/11 07:47:57 4 Companies Getting Real Results From Cloud Computing — Cloud Computing — InformationWeek http://bit.ly/gGTNg6 01/16/11 16:18:20 Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share | ITworld http://bit.ly/gronTW 01/16/11 16:32:19 Netflix reveals challenges in the cloud…
Tweets Collection: 2011-01-15
My tweets for the last couple of weeks: 12/29/10 06:49:03 Facebook passes Yahoo, becomes world’s third largest website – TechSpot News http://bit.ly/eth8XZ 12/31/10 18:19:47 E-book sales surpass physical book sales on Barnes & Noble website http://bit.ly/gYUEtu 12/31/10 18:47:40 Myspace still around? It Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming http://bit.ly/h3X2xi 01/03/11 17:15:59 The complicated new…
Tweet Archives: 2010-12-31
Archive of last set of tweets sent in 2010.. 12/13/10 17:36:52 How Does Airplane WiFi Work? at WLAN Book.com http://bit.ly/eGvRDD 12/15/10 04:34:08 Monetizing digital content the rocky road ahead — Good Presentation http://slidesha.re/eYOI8q 12/16/10 00:30:49 Microsoft: From 2010 to 2011 – Walking the Cloud Talk – http://bit.ly/fynQWv 12/18/10 19:09:04 Citrix looks to 2011 to boost…
Tweet report: 2010-12-12
Archives of tweets sent in the last couple of weeks: 11/29/10 22:46:08 Hacking NetFlix : The Reasons Behind Netflix’s Move to Amazon’s Cloud Services http://bit.ly/g1PXO4 11/30/10 04:08:51 Tablets expected to cut into PC sales in 2011 http://bit.ly/f08oqU 11/30/10 04:18:06 Paper: VDI TCO Analysis for Office Worker Environments http://bit.ly/hK8CpN 12/01/10 05:50:42 Red Hat – an open…
Tweets Report: 2010-11-30
Latest tweets from the last couple of weeks: 11/17/10 22:16:45 The 10 biggest tech scandals of the decade http://bit.ly/d7ue59 11/17/10 22:25:54 Four ways cloud computing can make your business better now | VentureBeat http://bit.ly/bwbYyC 11/18/10 15:42:57 Windows 8 to showcase ‘desktop as a service’? | ZDNet http://zd.net/clkac7 11/19/10 14:12:36 Microsoft TCO study: VDI is 11%…
Latest Tweets: 2010-11-15
Tweets for the last couple of weeks follow: 10/31/10 00:26:08 Test with iPad 10/31/10 00:32:56 RT @MSDownloads: Office 365 Beta Data Sheets: These documents provide an overview of the features of the Office 365… http://goo.gl/fb/fiMN1 10/31/10 01:05:01 cloudcomputing.info | Gartner: Microsoft and VMware the only leading players in cloud computing b… http://bit.ly/ahn5Sr 11/03/10 07:49:34 Did…
The old Cable/TV is history? (finally)
A recent piece of news captures (finally) the truth about the feeling everyone has about their cable serif. It is overpriced and there is never anything on when one finally has the time to sit down in front of the TV. Cable Lost 500,000 subscribers in a single quarter In a related piece, one of…
Traditional TV/Cable is finally caving!
A recent piece of news captures (finally) the truth about the feeling everyone has about their cable serif. It is overpriced and there is never anything on when one finally has the time to sit down in front of the TV. Cable Lost 500,000 subscribers in a single quarter http://www.techspot.com/news/41013-cable-lost-500000-subscribers-in-q3-thanks-to-the-web.html In a related…
Tweet report for 2010-10
Tweet Archive for October 2010 10/01/10 03:45:15 Let’s make it official and call it “user virtualization” http://bit.ly/9jOiLR 10/02/10 23:32:47 Application Virtualization Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Citrix, Endeavors, InstallFree, … http://bit.ly/aGUjbZ 10/12/10 01:46:24 Citrix announces XenDesktop 5. From Brian Madden http://bit.ly/bJ5heq 10/12/10 02:19:44 Facebook Introduces Organized Secured Share, Group Chat and Email Lists http://bit.ly/94aoB6 10/19/10 16:19:47…
Tweets for 2010-09
Tweet Archive for September 2010 09/04/10 15:25:41 Microsoft hungry to eat VMware’s lunch | Beyond Binary – CNET News http://bit.ly/b5nqXu 09/09/10 04:42:27 ThinPoint Desktop Virtualization Review http://bit.ly/cRDIDV 09/09/10 04:45:06 Release: VMware ThinApp 4.6 http://bit.ly/9unLCe 09/09/10 04:51:37 CIOs split on future destiny of the IT department http://bit.ly/b7ttUq 09/09/10 04:54:22 Report: Mac sales are booming in enterprise,…
LatestsTweets: 2010-08-30
Latest Tweets: 08/13/10 00:53:17 Using #Flipboard on iPad. What a fantastic app and UI. Highly recommended! www.flipboard.com 08/13/10 01:21:44 Netflix to stream Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM movies on Sep 1 http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1700ap_us_tec_netflix_movie_streaming.html 08/13/10 01:25:29 Microsoft, Google, CompuCom and California – latimes.com http://bit.ly/coxFhG 08/13/10 03:00:03 iPad Instrument Apps http://bit.ly/aAo9hf 08/13/10 03:28:31 Six Costly Cloud Mistakes – – CFO.com…
Tweets report: 2010-07-30
Latest tweets: 06/28/10 06:19:19 Thanks #brianmadden for a great article on your #VDI predictions ! http://bit.ly/dqNH8A 06/28/10 06:24:28 Best and fresh comparison on #VDI solutions from the #BRIANMADDEN group at: http://bit.ly/9BYe5U 06/28/10 06:31:28 Have you gone #VDI only? I am 1/2 way there (still carry a laptop with me) but, I would like to hear…
When to Baseline a Project Plan (Microsoft Project)
This is a common topic of conversation and it comes up every time I start a project… Best advice I have found follows: As the Project Manager you need to know what to, who should do what, when it should be done, why it should be done, the cost for it and a variety…
When to Baseline a Project
This is a common topic of conversation and it comes up every time I start a project… Best advice I have found follows: As the Project Manager you need to know what to, who should do what, when it should be done, why it should be done, the cost for it and a variety of…
Tweet’s Report: 2010-05-30
tweets of the last couple of months: 04/17/10 22:46:06 Google has the most servers! 1M+ http://digs.by/at3oxq 04/20/10 04:35:57 Microsoft Online Windows InTune: formerly System Center Online Desktop Manager but with more (MDOP included) http://bit.ly/c29RFj less 04/24/10 17:17:45 Microsoft and Facebook launched http://docs.com where Microsoft Office WebApps (Word, Excel PowerPoint) are available to Facebook users! 04/30/10…
Cloud Services 101
Cloud computing (or cloud services) is the new buzz in the world of IT services. The term, which is still pretty nebulous for many users, refers to a model in which computing resources are hosted and delivered via the Internet than can dynamically grow and shrink depending on its demand and you pay only for…
Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V
Just in case you missed it, Microsoft released the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V which will is required for sequencing and deploying Office 2010 client products with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). The toolkit must be installed on the App-V sequencing station prior to monitoring the Office 2010 client installation, and on the…
Facebook Distrust
I am not alone in my note to Facebook and my distrust! - According to a report in CNET News: …a recent poll by Sophos indicated that 60% of users surveyed are considering quitting Facebook over the privacy issues. good article that explains the issues …
Cloud Services 101-5: Storage as a Service
Originally published for Averro.com blog. One of the major technical dilemmas that many small or medium sized companies face, is to have enough storage space for all the data its employees work with every day. Storage space can be pretty expensive; servers, hosting fees and support costs, can eat up a significant portion of the…
Cloud Services 101-Video 2: Key Benefits
Originally published for Averro.com blog. In Cloud Services 101- Video 1 presentation we covered the basics (Definition, types, and deployment models) of what is refered to as cloud services. In this part-2 presentation we cover the key advantages that small and medium businesses can benefit from the use of these technologies. We have a few…
Cloud Services 101-4: For Small Businesses
Originally published for Averro.com blog. Cloud computing is quickly altering the way small businesses work. Hardware procurement, setup and software licensing in order to support the applications for all users in the organization is a significant effort and constant concern for the management team in any small business. With the development of cloud based services,…
Note to Facebook
I think I’ve had enough of Facebook… This is what I would write to them, if they cared…. Dear Facebook – Your disregard to the trust placed in you with my information and relationships has gone beyond the point in which I can accept. Your complex and confusing privacy settings options are out of…
Cloud Services 101-3: Key Benefits
Originally published for Averro.com blog. As we discussed in our initial article of the series, Cloud Services 101: The Basics, the cloud services can be categorized into three areas, Infrastructure, Platform or Application related. In part 2 of the series (Cloud Services 101: Big Players in the Field) we touched up on some of the…
No More On-Premise Servers
I have long been talking to clients (especially small businesses) about the fact that they do not need to keep servers on-premise to do their work. In a press release dated 1/13/10 where Gartner lists its key predictions for IT in 2010 and beyond (read here), the first highlight is a prediction that by 2012,…
Cloud Services 101-2: The Big Names in the Field
Originally published for Averro.com blog. Thanks to the convergence of multiple technology trends, including virtualization, data center consolidation, web-services, browser and commercialization of hardware advancements, there is simply no way of ignoring or denying the impact that cloud services are having within the industry. Placing files, email and applications on the cloud has its significant…
iPad thoughts – the first 2 weeks
Very interesting device. For me, it is definitely a consumption device. Netflix, web-surfing, news and blog reader, drawing and playing games with my kids, and some YouTube. The video quality is amazing, the magazine reader is excellent, the battery second to none… Very good for easy blog postings and lite-email writing during my daily…
Gartner Prediction: No IT assets
Gartner Prediction: No IT assets In a press release dated 1/13/10 where Gartner lists its key predictions for IT in 2010 and beyond (read here), the first highlight is a prediction that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets. By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated…
Cloud Services 101-Video 1: The Basics
Originally created for Averro.com blog and posted on their blog. Following our April 17th posting, we have posted webcast — first of a series — explaining how can cloud services can help the Small Business. Each video is small and to the point, and intended for a business audience, and not a technical one. This…
Windows Intune – Cloud-based Desktop Management
The beta version of Windows Intune, formerly known as System Center Online Desktop Management, it is now officially part of the Microsoft Online Services. is now in full beta. Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7—so your computers and users can operate at peak performance. Windows…
Blogging from iPad
So.. I had to know what all if the buzz was all about. I was not one of the first 300,000 wave, but was able to be on the second wave of shipments… So what do I think? Amazing device indeed. It will definitely be the catalyst to these types of devices. Will it be…
Office Web Apps available to 400M users
If you have been using the Beta versions of the Office 2010 WebApps as of yesterday – you are in the company of 400 million friends! Yes – in a very unexpected announcement, Microsoft and Facebook made available http://docs.com – which allows Facebook users to collaborate using Office 2010 Web Apps. Now you can discover,…
Windows Intune: Cloud Desktop Management
The beta version of Windows Intune is now in full beta. Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7—so your computers and users can operate at peak performance. Windows Intune delivers cloud-based management and security capabilities that can be administered through a single Web-based console, enabling your…
Cloud Services 101-1: The Basics
Originally published for Averro.com blog and posted on their blog. Cloud computing (or cloud services) is the new buzz in the world of IT services. The term, which is still pretty nebulous for many users, refers to a model in which computing resources are hosted and delivered via the Internet than can dynamically grow and…
Cracking open the iPad
For those curious on what the inside of the iPad in all of its (inside) glory look like a good video by TechRepublic here. Also for more photos go here Thanks TechRepublic!
Windows Azure – Simple Explanation
We are often asked what is Windows Azure, and how does it help the business. Explaining what an application hosting platform is, and how it can help it is not as simple as it sounds… Microsoft Azure is an application hosting environment rather than a server-based like Amazon’s AWS environment. Azure is a service that…
Tweet report: 2010-03-30
Latest set of tweets: 03/15/10 02:34:21 “Automatic WordPress Backup v2” Great Tool: http://bit.ly/cYsvnn 03/15/10 15:03:23 “10 things to consider before deploying a cloud” http://bit.ly/aXsFBf 03/16/10 23:29:21 Collaborative Mind Map in Google Wave” – this is VERY cool. http://bit.ly/bAyoV8 03/17/10 00:12:10 MIX10 Web Development Conference – Very good range of what Microsoft is doing… — http://bit.ly/dumZUK …
VDI Basic Questions answered
There seems to be a lot of market noise about this and it is an interesting topic. What does VDI stand for? VDI = Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Is VDI new? The virtual machine on the desktop is not new. Microsoft’s Remote Desktop, Citrix, VMware Workstation, Parallel, Virtual PC and several others have been around for…
Random thoughts and ideas
A few days ago, I tweeted that Google bought DocVerse – an office plug-in which allowed for real time sharing, group-editing and versioning of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents within the Google docs platform - I can’t wait to see how they will release within the platform, as it would improve its capabilities…
Calista products coming out: RemoteFX
Two years after being acquired, the Calista team and product set are finally coming out for air! The upcoming version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 will incorporate the RemoteFX – a set of RDP technologies which will vastly improve the user experience when accessing remote sessions – most prominently graphics virtualization. The…
VDI Overview
Traditionally, companies have deployed desktop or laptop computers to their end users. The operating system, applications have been individually installed on every desktop or laptop via imaging software or remote installation, and application configuration settings and most user data is stored locally on the computer. While this may have worked when the company started small,…
Tweet report: 2010-03-15
My latest tweets: 03/01/10 17:08:48 jorper98 is actively looking for a new “gig”. Open to recommendations, ideas or thoughts. 03/06/10 17:54:31 Like – Good list of Firefox Add-ons. http://bit.ly/a4o9WP 03/06/10 18:10:57 “Apple’s iPad to be released April 3” @ http://bit.ly/9oaiGO Are you going to wait ? 03/06/10 18:23:51 Mobile phones: “Apple is playing defense, and…
To iPad or not to iPad: Courier is the question
So much conversation about this topic, one more would not hurt. Like many folks out there, I can’t wait to get an iPad early next month and start playing with it, but I must confess, I am not sure why (other than it is sexy). For several years I have been using a regular HP…
Project Management Online Tools
One of the most common questions I get asked is what tool to I use to manage projects while working with virtual teams. The answer I give, is typically, “it depends a lot on the size of the project, and what you want to manage” Collaboration, Project Management, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Online Project Management,…
IE6: You will be remembered…
According to a CNN report today, “More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, were expected to gather around a coffin Thursday night to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6.” March 1st marks the official death of the IE6 browser – http://ie6funeral.com/ Internet Explorer Six, resident of the…
Palm Pre – WebOS 1.4 upgrade.
I just got the much anticipated WebOS 1.4 which, amongst many others features, enables video capture and which supports Adobe’s Flash Player. I just did a couple of quick tests. Pretty good video quality and Flash works nicely. Can wait to check the rest of the list. A silly quick test follows: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOEWbfZswJM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Latests Tweets: 2010-02
Latest tweets: 01/02/10 04:53:36 Moving my photo collection online. Pains, aches and challenges – http://bit.ly/8Gtqxj 01/07/10 20:17:46 Excited about my Palm Pre (again)! http://bit.ly/6NG2hm 01/16/10 18:23:20 Good Article on why App-V did not turn-out to be the nirvana of application simplification. http://bit.ly/4GusBu 02/10/10 02:58:29 Win7 on iPad? – thanks Citrix! http://chilp.it/260c15 02/19/10 20:13:00 The Aging…
Windows 7 N
A qiick post, with something I learned today…. I am not sure if you have noticed or not, but on Technet and the VLSC download site, you will notice a downloaded titled “Windows 7 N” The N version represents a version of Windows 7 that does not have Windows Media Player included and is intended…
The Aging of the World – totally made me think.
The current issue of Time Magazine (Feb 22, 2010) is titled The Science of Living Longer. It was a very interesting issue, but I have to admit the following stats which they quoted freaked me out a bit.. It is not the fact that we are aging, that made me wonder – It is how…
Thoughts and Catches of the Week
It has been a while since I’ve posted an entry here. I have been crazy busy traveling with work and general work. I guess that is good, but I have to confess, many times while late at the hotel, I’ve thought about posting something, but didn’t, even though I had something to say… I got…
Tools for Managing Passwords
This is not only about passwords, but all kinds of confidential data. There are so many important numbers, pins, passwords, challenge questions !! Where do you safely keep all of this information? Some of my friends have a little notebook (yes old school!). Others keep all this info stored in emails or in Word/Excel documents…
[TechCrunch] SPICEWORKS the new Facebook for IT Pros?
via TechCrunch Spiceworks, a startup that develops Web-connected social IT management software, has raised $16 million in Series C funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners with Austin Ventures and Shasta Venturesparticipating. This brings the startup’s total funding to $29 million. Spiceworks develops a desktop software suite that helps a company’s IT staff collaborate with…
[SOA World] is your App Infrastructure based on a the Postal Service’s Model?
Article written by Rob West This is a thought-provoking article from LORI MACVITTIE on SOAWorld Magazine that poses an interesting point-of-view: …the US postal service doesn’t determine whether postage may be due or not until the package arrives at its destination. If the addressee isn’t willing/able to pay that postage due, the package is of course…
Wix – a service to create Flash-based sites
A flash site to create flash sites. I have seen these before, but this one is vey well executed. You can pay $10/month (a bit expensive, but if you want to go this route why not!) and will eliminate Wix advertisement and offer more options. the Check it out… A Couple of quick tests I…
Excited about my Palm Pre (again)!
Back in October 2009, I decided to upgrade my Treo and went with the Palm Pre platform. You might have read my post on this topic iPhone vs Palm Pre. There were 4 things I was a bit disappointed with the software/device. What’s up with no Flash capabilities? (same with iPhone) No zoom for the…
Nice list of Win-7 resources
One of our colleagues sent us a highly bookmarkable list of Win7 resources that’s definitely worth checking out. There’s great stuff on Deployment, USMT 4.0, etc. http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2009/12/08/windows-7-useful-links.aspx Let us know of any others –
Managing My Picture Collection Online
Managing Photo collection
Tweets for 2009-12
December 2009 tweets: 12/04/09 06:00:25 Starting to come back online after a bad flu week… 12/04/09 13:54:53 10,000 apps available for Android and multiplying! http://tr.im/GCrY 12/07/09 00:09:49 Will the new price of BPOS hurt Partners? – Good article on Redmond Channel Partner. Read at: http://tr.im/GR3d 12/08/09 04:32:03 Coouple of New articles in my blog: Speed…
SCCM SP2 R2 – it must of have been the Turkey
Article by Danny Knox It must have been “feast induced drowsiness” that cause me to miss this. Had to be. I was trolling for technology webcasts and found one from thanksgiving week (2009) for SCCM – Technical Overview: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3 (Level 200) that among other things covers these gems:…
Posting from an Airplane at 30,000 feet.
I am in route home, at 30,000 feet or moving at 600 miles an hour, and I am writing this article while online on a “fairly high-speed” connection to the Internet while watching the news on DirectTV — What can be said? We have come a LONG way from the times in which I was…
Test Office 2010 beta without installing it!
Article by Danny Knox Ya, right. Part of my proof of concept work aside from MDOP delivery, SCCM/MDT and desktop I/O is to demo up and coming products like Office 2010. A lot of our clients want to know how well it works with Vista and Windows 7 and what kind of interaction it might…
Notables of the week –
Been busy this week with a lot work, so I have not had the chance to post much lately . However this does not mean, I have forgotten about my blog 🙂 It is interesting… When I made a personal commitment to actually write something often, everything I look at becomes a candidate for the…
Bring back Zero Touch (SoftGrid/App-V)
Article by Danny Knox Microsoft – why did you kill the radio star? The application virtualization product formerly known as SoftGrid prior to Microsoft’s purchase had a fledgling web based self-service application provisioning tool called Zero Touch. Sure, it sounds like the image deployment methodology from Microsoft called “zero touch” but why kill it? Re-brand…
New Microsoft Partner Competencies & Requirements
If you were at any of the Microsoft partner events in the last couple of years, you would know that Microsoft has been in the process of revamping the Microsoft Partner Program and its ecosystem. The changes officially started this past July when they renamed the Microsoft Partner Program to Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), partly…
slideshare World’s Best Presentations 2009
Back at the September 2009 slideshare.net ran an online contest to find the world’s best presentations. I have completely forgotten to check the finalists until I ran across an old email reminding me about it. I went in to the slideshare.net 2009 winner’s page and was surprise to find the winner to be a presentation…
AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June’10
From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…
Windows Azure Simple Explanation
We are often asked what is Windows Azure, and how does it help the business. Explaining what an application hosting platform is, and how it can help it is not as simple as it sounds… Microsoft Azure is an application hosting environment rather than a server-based like Amazon’s AWS environment. Azure is a service that…
AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June2010
From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…
Speed up your Internet with DNS
Several years ago, as a result of many issues with my then service provider, I switched and standardized my default DNS settings to point to a free DNS service called OpenDNS. I’ve been very satisfied with, and has provided great reliable and save service. My old service provided went our of business, and many…
Interesting Sites of the day
As I read articles, and surf the net, I jut down sites that call my attention so when I have the time, I can go back and check further.. Up until now, I have been just keeping them on my to-do list, and then mark them off when I get to them. I figure, why…
Using Windows Live Writer
Every post I have made up until now, I have written while I am online. Even though I have heard a number of times about off-line blog writers and editors, I have never used one… I guess it was about time. I downloaded Windows Live Writer 2009, from the Windows Live suite of tools to…
Cloud-Services vs Virtualization
As many of you already know, we have been strong proponent of cloud-based services for a very long time… The idea of maintaining an expensive and complex in-house infrastructure to support basic IT services is steadily shifting away from mainstream business. Adoption of cloud-based services continues to climb steadily. However, a recent article on the…
Tweets: 2009-11
My tweets for November 2009 10/26/09 20:08:16 Playing with Google Wave – – Very good. 10/27/09 07:00:22 Happy Google Wave user. Getting use to it now. It is so simple – it is hard! – Too many years in with Microsoft products. http://tr.im/DbIJ 10/28/09 03:27:10 Just got Wave and Google connected via Tweety the Twitbot…
Behind the scenes on Cloud Computing
A very interesting video on the hardware architecture behind cloud computing was posted yesterday on Microsoft’s Channel9 site… The walk-though is presented by Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Microsoft’s Data Center Services Team at PDC09. Self contained 40-foot containers (yes the kind you see on the road) are used to store 1000’s of motherboards and…
What is Google Wave?
A great short explanation video of what googlewave is all about by epicheostudio.com “ Did you know that email was invented 40 years ago?” Thanks! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
The Art of Story Telling
I attended a conference last week and one of the sessions was all about how we have forgotten the art of telling the story of. Robert McDowell from Microsoft presented and he had a couple of slides that should be shared wide and loud… They are: What makes a Great story ? Simple Unexpected Concrete…
Reflections on Windows 7 Launch
Article by Rob West As my esteemed colleague Jorge points out, it has been a busy summer (and now autumn) for us on this team, and as such, our posting frequency has not been, shall we say, “optimized.” I’ve been on the road a bit, and speaking at a number of Windows 7 Launch events,…
Microsoft BPOS Price drop by
Microsoft announced that is cutting the price of its BPOS services today Exchange Online from $10 per user per month to $5 per user per month. BPOS bundle — Online: Exchange, SharePoint, Communications and Live Meeting — from $15 per user per month, to $10 per user per month This is a 30% price drop and is fantastic…
iPhone vs Palm Pre
No this will not be a full comparasion or anything like that, just a quick rambling in myblog regardind my observations between the two platforms, after using both for about a couple of months now. Although I secretly wanted for the Pre to be the one to write about, I have to say that iPod…
iPhone vs Palm Pre
No this will not be a full comparasion or anything like that, just a quick rambling in myblog regardind my observations between the two platforms, after using both for about a couple of months now. Although I secretly wanted for the Pre to be the one to write about, I have to say that iPod…
BPOS Migration Tools
As we have mentioned in the past, many organizations are now moving from on-premises to a hosted solution (cloud computing). One of the greatest values out there (for what it contains) is Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) — We expect to have many, many customers to continue to migrate into this platform. With a set of…
Win7 VHD Released 64bit only
As part of the Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk – Test Drive Program, a pre-configured VHD that enables you evaluate Microsoft Windows 7 for 90-days was released yesterday. What is notable is that this VHD requires Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, or the R2 to use this virtual machine, because…
10,000 apps available for Android
If you remember my post a couple of weeks ago, I talked about what I liked and disliked about my newly purchased Palm Pre. At the time, I mentioned the biggest challenge for me was the lack of available applications, and asked Palm, to open up the store to developers! I ran across the article…
Tweets for Summer 2009
Wow – It was a busy summer… Very few tweets! 07/01/09 05:04:42 Rackspace Power Outage – a series of events to learn from. http://viigo.im/05S5 07/01/09 05:07:38 the cost of a worm attack. http://viigo.im/05Sc 07/09/09 04:57:55 Good article if you are considering venture capital: http://tr.im/rvnC 07/14/09 01:28:09 Here comes Office 2010 — still waiting on that…
Summer blues…
Wow – It is hard to believe how fast the summer came and went. As you can probably gather from the frequency of posts, it was a very busy time for all of us at the InfraOps team. Busy working with clients and getting to know updated technologies. Lots of activity, including some much needed…
Time Tracking Web-based
Time tracking software has come a long way from the early days of having to enter time into pieces of paper and spreadsheets, which had to then be manually entered into the billing systems. it was tedious and crazy work… These days, web-based tracking software tools range from the simple, to highly complex systems with…
Microsoft Assessment MAP Toolkit and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Released
Some of us have been using it already, but just in case you did not know, MAP 4.0 is now officially released. As you would expect,most of the changes are around Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, but there is much more. Definitelly a good upgrade! According to the official release, key new features…
Tweets of the month: 2009-06
My Tweets for June 2009: 06/04/09 02:58:52 Alley Insider’s Startup2009 competition: Article One and Expensify shine http://viigo.im/MI9 06/07/09 02:53:56 Some people are just talented! – Take a look at these photos of LEGOS! http://tinyurl.com/mey6xh 06/07/09 14:48:22 Good article on Cloud Computing evolution as oppose to revolution along with a list of top player. http://chilp.it/?10d3d7 06/07/09…
Controlling Multiple Computers
Like many of us, crazy technologists, I’ve had at least 3 (if not 4+) computers on my desk for years now… Aside from your day-to-day one, you must have the computer with the music library, then there is the laptop, and then the test sandbox one, where everything new goes into… I thought virtualization was…
Exploring Ning – jorgep has its own now.
I know, I will say it… I am a bit late to this party but I decided to explore its capabilities and nowjorgep has its own Ning community site… Ning has gotten excellent reviews lately Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks launched in October 2005. …
Microsoft Project Natal – couple of thoughts.
Everyone knows by now that Microsoft’s Project Natal is the talk of the town since it was introduced at E3 early this week. In fact there is one headline I read that said something like : “How Microsoft stole E3” Very cool technology, which is finally enabled by the power of faster more powerful processors…