My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves – the Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360. And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner. The kit comes with four controllers, each featuring a big button for fast “buzz-in”, as well…
Year: 2008
I am going to miss HD DVD
Farewell friend — we hardly knew ye. Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360, the format war is over. And that is a good thing. While we early adopters may have had to bet on two horses, mainstream consumers…
A new storage blog … THE Storage Blog at Microsoft
Hi folks, Sorry to have been unplugged – but my posts will restart this week. In the meantime, check out the new “Storage Blog at Microsoft” – where some of our storage-saavy exec’s, as well as other storage experts will weigh in. The blog kicked off earlier this week with a post from our General…
Heroes Happen Here — Comics !!!
You know its a good day when two of your favorite universes collide. Peanut Butter and Jelly Steak and Red Wine Star Wars and Video Games (usually) Dungeons & Dragons and Video Games And now … Comic Books and IT Professionals Yes – as part of the Windows Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008…
Are you looking for a DPM server — try a Data Protection appliance from Dell
One of the common questions that we hear around DPM is “What hardware should the DPM Server be run on?” I can offer a couple different answers. Start with the Official Answer — please consult the hardware requirements list on the DPM website There is also the “engineering” answer – which is “It depends …”…
How to do Disaster Recovery with DPM 2007 — new streaming video
For many environments, simply providing reliable backup and recovery of key workloads like SQL Server and Exchange is enough. For larger enterprises, distributed branch-office environments, and those with mandates for off-site protection — DPM 2007 can also be used for multi-tiered data protection to deliver disaster recovery or business continuity preparedness. When Microsoft began looking…
HEROES happen here
In case you are of the very few IT professionals who haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has an exciting launch coming up next month: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 And I am very jazzed to get to attend the global launch event on February 27, 2008 in Los Angeles — manning the…
My Xbox 360 has its own blog
Everybody is blogging. I’ve been blogging myself (here) at Microsoft for almost a year — with my sincere thanks to all of you who read this. Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including: SYSTEM CENTER – the family of management products from Microsoft that DPM is part of WINDOWS SERVER -…
You gotta get a Home Server!
My first “home server” was in 1992 – it was NetWare 3.11 and I distinctly remember paying $1,000 for the 1GB 5.25″ full-height SCSI drive that would hold all of my data. I was working on my CNE certification and wanted some experience at home, while I studied. I vaguely recall having to go to…
DPM 2007 awarded "Product of the Year" for protecting Virtualized Environments
For folks that have heard about DPM’s protection capabilities around virtual servers, this will not come as a surprise — but today, DPM 2007 was awarded the Gold as a "Product of the Year" from SearchServerVirtualization.com. SearchServerVirtualization.com announced the winners of its first annual Products of the Year awards, spanning four categories: Virtualization Platforms…