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I was lucky enough to be asked to co-present at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The session, also presented by Microsoft’s Virtualization Solutuions Director, focused on helping the audience understand how other partners are leveraging Microsoft virtualization solutions and making the case to customers. This session also focused on how Microsoft partners have […]

http://www.devconnections.com/shows/SP2008SQL/default.asp?c=1&s=114
Companies rely on Office SharePoint Server 2007 to collaborate and streamline their business workflow across the company—so, how can they make sure data is highly available and easily recovered in the event of a disaster? This session will provide a brief overview of the SharePoint Server 2007 architecture, focusing on the recovery and availability features […]

Working in a virtualized environment brings several challenges, including how to protect it. In this conversation, we discuss the pros and cons of the different approaches to this job with Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software.

Bob explains what built-in tools are available for backup and what tools are still missing, plus the […]

I participated in a podcast w/Gregg Sheilds at Realtime Windows Server. Here’s an absract and a link to the MP3.
In the old days, building and maintaining a backup site for disaster recovery was financially impossible for all but the most critcial of network services. Buying and managing duplicate servers in a redundant site that […]

I contributed portions of material for an article that was written on Virtual Desktop Alternatives to VMware ACE by Hannah Drake, Associate Editor of SearchServerVirtualization.com.
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1281098,00.html

I participated in an episode of a podcast for Microsoft Canada focused on IT Managers’ concerns and issues. The topic of our discussion was virtualization and it’s impact on IT:
Many organizations rely on tape backup and manual processes as the main components of their disaster recovery plans. These offer good protection – but can […]

I participated in an episode of a podcast for Microsoft Canada focused on IT Managers’ concerns and issues. The topic of our discussion was virtualization and it’s impact on IT:
Many organizations rely on tape backup and manual processes as the main components of their disaster recovery plans. These offer good protection – but can […]

I delivered this session as part of Avnet’s Partner Conference - Ignition ‘07.
Microsoft Exchange is integral to an organization’s day-to-day operation. For many companies, an hour of Exchange downtime can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost productivity. The success of your business depends upon a disaster recovery and availability solution for Exchange that […]

I delivered this session as part of Avnet’s Partner Conference - Ignition ‘07.
Consider the impact of a failure of a virtualized system. Instead of incurring downtime of just one application, you will incur downtime of multiple applications. Virtual machine technologies require advanced disaster recovery and availability solutions that provide protection against data loss and downtime […]

Virtualization is one of the fastest-growing technologies in mainstream IT today and the benefits are clearly evident - they allow businesses to improve their IT efficiency while driving down costs. As you evolve your IT infrastructure and leverage virtualization to address your scalability and manageability needs, it is also important to evolve your restore and […]