In my role with MS IT's Assessment, Consulting, & Engineering ( A.C.E. ) team, I work with some of the best application perf engineers in the world. However, A.C.E. doesn't have a monopoly on talent; there are some great engineers throughout Microsoft...

This is a follow-up to last week's post in which I shared the fantastic perf enhancements in the latest-&-greatest Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update / HotFix. My post prompted a reply from Will Kennedy, Microsoft Corporate VP of Outlook & InfoPath...

SAN Over-Subscription There are a variety of challenges related to I/O performance. One common problem is "SAN Over-Subscription", which is characterized by the the following symptoms: High disk latency and Low IOPs & Throughput As MS...

Today Kevin Kline, Quest's #1 SQL guru, tagged me, challenging me to offer bits of wisdom to SQL n00bs—which I mean in a good way considering this describes me not all that many years ago. As I divine the lineage of the "Things You Know Now" thread, Mike...

It's a beautiful day. For years now the been hurry-up-&-wait icon has plagued our productivity; the whirling dervish demon of delay has been ubiquitous. This is in part a personal productivity blog, & I'm thrilled to bring you some great news...

My multi-talented, java-enabled yet Windows-empowered friend Alik Levin of www.practicethis.com ( among other blogs ) subjected my blog to the machinations of www.wordle.net . Wordle creates "word clouds". Another friend, Bob "Roudy Bob" Roudebush...

I'm a lucky guy. Besides the fact that I'm healthy, alive, & living on the planet earth "in interesting times" as the fortune cookie says, I had the opportunity to contribute to an article which appeared in the Green IT issue of The Architecture Journal...

Daylight Saving Time, DST, has finally returned. We sprung forward yesterday. I love DST! For years here in Indiana I had no reason to celebrate. That changed recently. I was a proud member of the Hoosier Daylight Coalition, a grass roots organization...

While at the PASS Community Summit in November 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a handful of excellent presentations. One of the best was delivered by Mike Ruthruff (& not just because he shilled for my presentation on disk partition alignment...