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New interview from TechEd NA 2011
Last week, my friends at TechNet EDGE released an interview that we did at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta last month: As always, thanks for reading (and watching),
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JBuff leaving Microsoft
After 5.5 years, I am leaving Microsoft. When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market. I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for...
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More excitement on OpsMgr 2012 and its CEP
The Beta is Here – and the CEP is coming fast ! First and Foremost – CONGRATS to my Microsoft friends for the recent release of the beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012 !!! I was so proud to...
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Speaking at System Center Universe 2012
Tuesday, January 17 — Microsoft held a webcast on their Private Cloud offerings and announced the Release Candidate of their System Center 2012 management tools. Thursday, January 19 – the System...
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Microsoft Ups its Backup Game in System Center 2012
[Cross-posted from my ESG blog – Technical Optimist .com] Data protection processes and technologies are vital to ensuring an organization’s operational, regulatory, and financial health. As a result,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Private Cloud Fast Track at MMS 2012
The Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track program puts the best practices and private cloud experience of Microsoft into an IT architecture that provides consistency and flexibility in the Microsoft...
View ArticleHP VS3 announced at MMS 2012
Today, HP announced the newest offering in its VirtualSystem for Microsoft solutions family – the VS3, leveraging HP hardware that has been assembled and optimized to deliver the entire Microsoft...
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I am headed to the System Center Universe
On January 31st, in Irving, Texas … or a simulcast location near you … you have the opportunity to learn more (a lot more) about Microsoft’s management platform – System Center. For those of you who...
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Windows IT Pro article – Understanding DPM2012
The nice folks at Windows IT Pro magazine recently published an article that I wrote on Data Protection Manager within Microsoft System Center 2012. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)...
View ArticleMy newest Storage Appliance for under $2,000
After 22+ years in backup, I have become something of a storage geek on the side (or at least pretend to be one). Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a new storage solution in my Dallas...
View ArticleThinking about Xbox Home Server
My friend Mark Bowker recently blogged about the hypothetical potential of a Microsoft Surface Server. Since he covers Virtualization for ESG, he has a lot of opportunities to think about converged...
View ArticleI love my Surface Pro; here’s how I made it better
This is an absolutely phenomenal device – with enough CPU to do my day job while I travel, long enough battery to last a day of meetings (or a long flight), and light enough that it is now the only...
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Need Help with WinSvr 2012 Storage Spaces
Howdy MS friends, I used to be a fan of Windows Server 2012’s Storage Spaces: http://blog.jasonbuffington.com/index.php/2013/06/checking-out-my-newest-storage-appliance-for-under-2000/ And for those...
View ArticleThe best accessories for Surface Pro don’t all come from Microsoft
A few months ago, I wrote about how my Surface Pro (v1) had become the only device that I travel with (blog). Since then, I have streamlined optimized even further, with a few other gadgets. In my...
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