Want to learn more about EMC and Microsoft?

While I try to highlight all of the great work EMC continues to do around Microsoft Hyper-V, System Center and virtualization, there is so much more that EMC does with Microsoft and many other specialists within EMC who take the time to blog and record highlights, best practices and design guides for Microsoft applications. I wanted to take a minute to share this work with you and encourage you to take the time to check this out; there is some great information available including:

• WindowtothePrivateCloud - http://windowtotheprivatecloud.com/. This is a site that consolidates all of the blog posts from EMC Microsoft specialists so you can visit one site to learn everything EMC is doing with Microsoft! My blog posts are re-posted on this site (and if you follow my blog to windowtotheprivatecloud then you may just end up in some kind of endless web black hole). Some of the bloggers that are highlighted on windowtotheprivatecloud.com includes:
  • Dustin Smith – Exchange MVP and EMC Global Solutions specialist on all things EMC and Microsoft Exchange.
  • Michael Anderson – SQL Server expert located in Redmond, WA working closely with Microsoft on SQL Server testing and integration and worked for Microsoft prior to joining EMC last year.
  • Paul Galjan – Manages a team of Microsoft specialists across the US for our Commercial mid-size division and one of our top Microsoft specialists in the field.
  • Eyal Sharon – SQL Server and Sharepoint expert working for EMC Global Solutions specializing on all designing solutions and recommendations for these technologies on EMC.
  • James Baldwin – Deep Microsoft specialist who builds EMC and Microsoft solutions in a multi-million dollar lab located in Cork, Ireland and creates design guides and best practices on how to use the latest Microsoft technologies with EMC.
  • Brian Henderson – writes the blog "PowerWindows", Brian has worked as a Microsoft specialist within EMC's Global Solutions team and Tech Marketing divisions and is now focused on Data Protection for Microsoft applications.

Not a bad lineup huh?

• The other contributor to windowtotheprivatecloud who is doing some great work is Sam Marraccini. Sam recently started a blog called Inside the EMC Microsoft partnership (located at: http://emcmsft.typepad.com/) and Sam is creating a series of video blog posts to highlight EMC's partnership and activities to drive Microsoft technologies. They are not only informational but highly entertaining. You can follow Sam's video posts and see his 12 existing videos on YouTube located at: http://www.youtube.com/user/SamMarraccini (select Uploads section to see them all).

If you're looking for something related to EMC and Microsoft, it is likely here. I'm lucky to be part of such as great team as EMC continues to have some of the best technologist focused on Microsoft today!