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System Center 2012 “Cloud in Your Pocket”; More Lies Ahead

It takes a lot more than a 16GB flash drive full of management products to deliver a production cloud. Continue reading

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System Center 2012 “Ready Now”; More Lies Ahead

Microsoft System Center private cloud campaign claims “Ready now.” Is it? Continue reading

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Missing: “Private Clouds” at the MMS 2012 Hosted Cloud Pavilion

The “hosted private clouds” on display at MMS 2012 were based on shared infrastructure, making them public clouds in reality. Continue reading

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Missing: System Center 2012 Hybrid Cloud

According to NIST, hybrid cloud infrastructures enable data and application portability – not typically a point of compatibility between PaaS and IaaS clouds. Continue reading

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Microsoft Management Summit 2012 a.k.a. “MMS 2011 for real this time”

Microsoft tipped their hand by announcing a plethora of beta products in 2011, left with little to announce this year at Microsoft Management Summit 2012. Continue reading

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