Practice Accelerator for Microsoft® Server Virtualization with Advanced Management

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If you’ve been following me on Twitter , You may have seen some recent tweets about Microsoft Practice Accelerator for Server Virtualization and Advance Management which i have been delivering to Microsoft partners. In my opinion its a great workshop and will help the partners in developing a Virtualization practice in their organization and gain expertise to work on end to end Virtualization engagements with their customers.

Build a Services Practice to Fast Track Your Business

Practice Accelerator (PA) is a Microsoft offering designed to help partners build a technical services practice around Microsoft solutions. PA is a comprehensive set of reusable tools, resources, and best practices introduced in training delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting. PA enables you to identify customer requirements, analyze their needs, scope projects, plan solution requirements, and deploy Microsoft solutions. Practice Accelerator can help you build your business capacity. The complete, reusable documentation set includes project guides, templates, architecture guidance, and planning and design guides, as well as leave-behind materials for your customers.

PRACTICE ACCELERATOR FOR SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WITH ADVANCED MANAGEMENT

Virtualization is a key technology for reducing the cost and complexity of IT management.  Microsoft business customers have reported saving on average almost half a million dollars (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization products. As organizations around the world deploy The Microsoft® Server Virtualization with Advanced Management (SVAM) they look to skilled Microsoft partners to assist with their planning and deployments. 

Designed to help you build a services practice around Microsoft SVAM, Practice Accelerator is a comprehensive set of reusable tools, resources, and best practices introduced with training via Microsoft Live Meeting. Enabling you to successfully identify customer requirements and project scope, analyze customer needs, plan solution requirements, and deploy a solution, Practice Accelerator can help you build your capacity. The complete documentation set includes project guides, templates, architecture guidance, planning and design guides, as well as leave-behind materials for the customer.

Agenda:

Day 1
Module 1: Delivery Management
Module 2: Component Walk-Through
Module 3: Best Practices: Discovery Phase
Day 2
Module 4: Best Practices: Architecture: Hyper-V ™, Clustering, High Availability (HA)
Module 5: Best Practices: Sub-system Architecture
Day 3
Module 6: Best Practices: Management
Module 7: Best Practices: Advanced Management
Day 4
Module 9: Best Practices: Security and Performance
Module 10: Tips for Success
Module 11: Ensuring Value

For a limited time, these sessions are at no cost. Starting in October, you can use your Advisory Hours to purchase Practice Accelerator.

REGISTER NOW for the sessions at NO COST!

Delivery Schedule:

  • Aug 9 – 12, 2010
  • Aug 23-26, 2010
  • Sept 13 – 16, 2010
  • Sep 27 – 30, 2010

For registration details please contact me @ Iftekhar.hussain@microsoft.com