This is Gerard Morisseau, Senior Program Manager for ACE’s Information Security Assessment Services (ISAS). ISAS offers several security assessment services aimed at helping Microsoft IT and the business assess their information security risks, improve...

Hi – This is Irfan, Director of the ACE Team. Some of you may have come across Abu’s recent blogs on Performance Development Lifecycle for IT (PDL-IT), I thought it would be useful to shed some light on the history of the performance side...

Hi, my name is Brad Gobble and I manage ACE ’s Infrastructure Security Team, a part Microsoft IT’s Information Security group. Over the next few weeks you’ll hear a lot about our services: what we do, how we do it, how we prepare our team to execute and...

An all too familiar scene repeated itself two weeks ago. My good friend & CISO of a mid-sized technology company, lets call him Alok, went into a budget planning meeting and came out as a shadow of his former self. To be more precise a 85% version...

My colleague & A.C.E. performance engineer Chris Lundquist has compiled a 6:58 wmv featuring his unscripted yet eloquent dialog walking us step-by-step through a VSTS web test: Starting VSTS Adding a new C#/Web Test project Adding comments...