Am getting ready for Wood Badge in a few weeks, which is a training program for adult leaders within Boy Scouts. Per a BSA website: Reflecting the best of nearly a century of Scouting experience, the course draws upon the most current leadership models used by corporate America, academic circles, and successful outdoor organizations throughout…
Jason is going Down Under (again)
Woo Hoo – am very excited to confirm that I will be returning for my third TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand next month. TechEd Australia (August 24-27) I have at least three confirmed sessions: Protecting Application Servers with DPM 2010 – This session will focus on protecting and recovering Exchange 2010 and 2007, SharePoint…
New DPM 2010 TechNet Forums
Last week, the DPM TechNet Forums were reorganized – so that it is easier for you to ask your question to the right group of experts — and for them to answer you within context: DPM DPM Tape DPM Disaster Recovery DPM File protection DPM Exchange protection DPM SharePoint protection DPM SQL protection DPM Hyper-V…
DELL’s System Center Essentials solution announced
Am really excited to announce that DELL is partnering with Microsoft to deliver a solution around System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 ! From my perspective, this is a great match for SMB customers who often rely on Dell for their hardware and use Microsoft OS’s and applications. SCE 2010 provides a single solution…
It’s almost here !
I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend ! It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours). 🙂 It is due out on July 26th and is…
Why don’t you back up? (well)
Barbara Imbert at Seagate recently blogged about Symantec’s 2010 SMB information security survey. As a summary of the findings: 74% are Somewhat/Extremely concerned about information protection 42% lost confidential/proprietary information in the past 12 months 100% saw losses – lost revenue & direct financial costs In the past year, 62% lost devices and 73% saw…
Congratulations DPM MVPs
Am very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager. These folks have passionately tweeted, blogged, spoken and otherwise educated folks on DPM (2007 and 2010). Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Mike Resseler – DPM-blog …
Thinking of building a DPM Appliance? Check out what the Moose did
One of the most exciting things for me to see is when partners start building service and product offerings around the products that I am blessed to manage. Having come from a reseller/integrator background before joining data protection vendors, I am always particularly excited when a regional partner makes such a commitment. This is the…
Video : Dad Life
This video has nothing to do with Microsoft, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Essentials 2010, Boy Scouts or Video Games. But if you are a dad (or know one) … then this video is worth 2.5 minutes of your day: Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo.
DPM 2010 Licensing Info
With DPM 2010 now on the Microsoft price list, I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify some changes in the licensing between DPM 2007 and DPM 2010. Please note, I am not a certified licensing specialist, nor am I staring at a SKU chart. The best official resources are on the DPM licensing and…