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A Fitting Tribute
The visionary and technological innovator who was Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. How fitting that the company that only he could have built (twice, if you consider that in 1997 Apple was virtually dead until he returned) stops to pay tribute to him in such a way. In a day or two no doubt Apple.com…
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The Late Great Steve Jobs
On a cold December evening I was walking through the Christmas tide When a stranger came up and asked me if I’d heard John Lennon died. And the two of us went to this bar and we stayed to close the place, And every song we played was for the Late, Great Johnny Ace. -Paul…
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One of those moments…
As I sat on the airplane from Atlanta to Greenville (South Carolina) I decided the flight was short enough that I could spend it thinking, rather than pulling out my laptop. As I tend to do when training for a new Belt, I went through a series of Taekwondo patterns in my head – the…
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Year 6
This was probably the first year that I did not even realize it was time. When I woke up this morning I checked my Twitter feed, and saw a tweet from someone about today being the award day for the Microsoft MVP program. Had my 21 month old son not come in looking for Daddy,…
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Microsoft Virtualization Learning Resources
It is amazing how many people ask me what resources are available for someone who wants to learn Microsoft Virtualization and then get certified with either the MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) or MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional). After all, they are all over the place. The first place to look is Microsoft. According to…
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Hyper-V Training–10215AE is now available in E-Learning!
I am asked all the time what are the best resources available to learn Hyper-V and the associated technologies – from the hypervisor to System Center, Failover Clustering, data protection, remote desktop and so much more – and the answer is simple: Take the course. Microsoft Learning’s course 10215A is an excellent offering that I…
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Real Help in a Virtual World
As you know I spend a lot of time discussing virtualization, both as a vPTA for Microsoft Canada and as an MCT. There is a lot of information out there to help IT Pros at every level, from getting started to the graduate-level super-high-end questions. The problem is finding it, and when you do find…
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Free Virtualization Career Training available for registration
(Copy of post by Adam Hall… Thanks Adam!) Hi everyone On Tuesday, October 4th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning. This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST) will offer a Level 100 to 200 introduction for anyone who wants to…
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Running out of space? WRONG TENSE? No Problem!
If you have been reading my blog over the past few weeks you know that I have converted my beloved HP ProLiant DL585 G2 into a hybrid virtualization host/SAN device by installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with the free Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3. Although the host has nearly 750GB of storage, I…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, Part III
In the first article of this series, Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, I explained a bit of my own history, and why I was writing these articles. The actual advice is split into sixteen points, the first eight were listed in my next article, Advice for IT Pros Planning to…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, Part II
In my last article (Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies) I outlined the scenario, and gave some of the history of how I got to where I am today. If you don’t know, I am a Senior IT Consultant and Courseware Specialist with SWMI Consulting Group, as well as a Virtual…
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An interesting movie…
I took Theresa to see the movie ‘The Debt’ tonight. We both enjoyed it (I more than she), but probably for very different reasons. I think it is the first time I have ever watched a movie and said to myself ‘Wow… I think I have to see the original in Hebrew’ after watching a…
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A Humbling Recognition
Last week a tweet came across my Twitter feed from Amy Babinchak congratulating me on being one of the fifty must-read IT blogs. I had to turn to Bing for the details. It turns out that BizTech Magazine published an article titled 50 Must-Read IT Blogs from BizTech. The honour comes complete with a badge…
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P2V Migration for Microsoft Exchange Servers
If you are not virtualizing your servers then you are leaving money on the table. I am often asked if every server in an organization is a virtualization candidate, and obviously the answer is NO. However there are a lot of servers that can be virtualized, but are not because we do not believe them…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to run their Own Companies
Earlier this month one of the IT Professionals who attended a couple of my sessions over the past few years e-mailed me and told me he had ‘written my last letter of resignation, and plan to work for myself from now on.’ It is a bold and brave decision, one that I made several years…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 