A really good (technical) blog post that describes the concepts around Private Cloud and how to build it and manage it with Windows Server and System Center and how to extend it to the Public Cloud (IaaS), running on Windows Azure . If you are in for some learning and want to be up-to-date with the latest...

That’s the title of the article written by James Staten for Forrester Research and it actually nicely summarizes all the features, benefits and directions for Windows Azure. I particularly like the following excerpts as they nicely summarize the holistic view: … Where Microsoft is differentiating itself...

With the new launch of the Windows Server 2012 another interesting capability has come into the preview mode: Windows Azure Online Backup, a cloud-based backup for Windows Server 2012 . The service provides IT administrators with a physically remote backup and recovery option for their server data with...

I read through a good blog post from a colleague Damien Caro on the monitoring of Windows Azure applications with System Center 2012 (Operations Manager). Definitely worth reading and trying out, especially if you are using System Center for managing your IT environment. Another great overview is the...

A Beta release of System Center App Controller 2012 is now available! App Controller is a new member of the System Center family and provides a number of capabilities that enable Application Self Service across both private and public clouds. The greatest thing about the App Controller is that is enables...