As we come into the home stretch, I have three speaking engagements today and three more tomorrow. When asked why I don’t share these with other speakers, my answer is two-fold: 1) I came to Microsoft 23 months ago for DPM2007, so I want to put my own fingerprints all over this event. That may…
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DPM 2007 Launch – Day 3
We are half-way through Launch Week … and things are continuing to stay exciting. The booth is continually swamped – and while this will sound bias, it is one the busiest booths in the Microsoft pavilion. Yeah, I know that’s like saying that my kid was the best actor in the school play. Yes, I…
DPM 2007 Launch – Day 2
Things keep going well for DPM at IT Forum. The booth stays swamped with interested folks – and we have a great team of up to 4 DPM experts at the booth at a time — and they are staying busy the whole time ! From my perspective, today was about the first technical sessions:…
DPM 2007 Launch – Day 0
Pop Quiz – what could make a 9.5 hour flight from Dallas to Paris feel longer? Answer – A 3-hour delay before take-off, sitting in the aircraft. Yes, as an omen of all the good things that will come this week, we pulled away from the gate, tried to rev the engines and came back…
Am headed to Barcelona – DPM 2007 is launching !!!
DPM 2007 has RTM’d … and announced at Storage Networking World in Dallas in October. DPM 2007 is generally available this month (November) – making its way to distributors, channel partners and Microsoft licensing vehicles as we speak. But now comes my favorite part … the DPM 2007 product launch. I have been looking forward…
DPM 2007 has RTM’d !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you saw the official blog on the DPM blogsite, you’ll notice that this post has more exclamation marks. This is a really exciting day for all of us at Microsoft, particularly those who have been preparing DPM 2007 to come to market. With the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, we are now just weeks…
Start your Evaluations !!!
The DPM website has been updated (www.microsoft.com/DPM) – with new information on the upcoming release of DPM 2007, pricing/licensing details, and best of all – new downloads. As some of you may have heard from our recent demonstration at SQL PASS or from the DPM newsgroups, we have a release candidate for DPM 2007 -…
DPM 2007 at SQL Server Users’ Conference — 2007 PASS Community Summit
I just finished a very busy week at the SQL Server Users’ Conference (http://www.sqlpass.org/). We started with the first public viewing of an early DPM 2007 “Release Candidate” (yes, you heard right) for around 2000 customers, partners and vendor-folk… where we demonstrated DPM protecting SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. It was very cool,…
Audio – What’s new in DPM 2007
Released this week, a Microsoft TechNet Radio interview – hosted by my good buddy and IT Pro Evangelist Matt Hester – interviewing me on what is coming in DPM 2007. Originally posted at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/sep112007.mspx. But to save you one mouse click, here is the info: September 11, 2007 Learn about System Center Data Protection Manager…
New webcast – DPM plus Virtual Server
On August 30th, I finally get to talk about two of my favorite technologies in the same session – data protection and virtualization. For the past several years, two areas of computing continually get hotter and hotter – storage and virtualization. And if I wasnt a “backup guy”, I would most certainly be a “virtual…