Privatize your cloud with help from these two new Channel 9 Series "Build a Private Cloud with WinServer & System Center" and "Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Azure"

Channel 9 - Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server and System Center

View the first of two Jump Starts in a series covering the end-to-end process of implementing a MS cloud solution, providing a deep dive into key topics associated with implementing a Microsoft hybrid cloud solution. This Jump Start is a scenario-based, bottom up approach to designing and building your private cloud on Windows Server 2012 and incorporating the full spectrum of System Center 2012 SP1 components. MVP Pete Zerger and Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman focus on bringing a greater understanding to key topics related to the fabric, such as virtual networking and leveraging the storage and networking capabilities of WS2012 along with creating service templates in VMM and on the Service Manager CMDB as we move up the management stack. Additionally you learn how the service-catalog comes together to deliver an intuitive self-service experience in a step-by-step approach.

• Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server and System Center- (01) Planning Your Cloud Implementa...
• Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server and System Center- (02) Building the Cloud Fabric
• Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server and System Center- (03) Preparing for Self-Service
• Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server and System Center- (04) Building Your Service Catalog

Channel 9 - Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure

View the second of two Jump Starts in a series covering the end-to-end process of implementing a MS cloud solution, providing a deep dive into key topics associated with implementing a Microsoft hybrid cloud solution. This Jump Start is a continuation of "Build a Private Cloud with Windows Server & System Center Jump Start" and focuses on successfully monitoring and managing ongoing operation of a private cloud environment. MVP Pete Zerger and Technical Product Manager Matt McSpirit provide example after example on how to integrate Azure IaaS into our private cloud to deliver hybrid cloud capabilities in System Center 2012 SP1, how to develop hybrid cloud self-service scenarios in System Center 2012 App Controller and in the System Center Service Manager Self-Service Portal, and demonstrate full integration of private and public cloud with ITIL.

• Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure- (01) Monitoring, Management and Opera
• Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure- (02) Connecting System Center to the…
• Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure- (03) Service Delivery and Automation
• Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure- (04) ITIL-integrated Self-Service in...

 

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