Systems Management

Jeff Kahn, Product Manager, US Windows Server Marketing and Cathy Palmer, Lead Program Manager for HPC System Administration, chat about the market for HPC and Microsoft’s new and exciting offering for that market, Compute Cluster Server 2003.   Cathy details the steps in setting up a…

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is an assessment and inventory tool designed to help customers and partners quickly assess their PCs’ readiness for Windows Vista upgrades network-wide with a single networked PC.  Chris Avis sits down and talks with Baldwin Ng, the Product Manager for…

This video came to us from Adam Carter. I'll let him introduce it all himself: Back in October, I posted a blog entry asking who people would want to hear from in MS IT about their work. I got just one response back, suggesting I talk to Ron Markezich about MMS (Microsoft Managed Services –…

Microsoft is a big company. Everybody knows this, but it really hits home when your job is to go around and interview people from its many divisions. Before shooting this video, I didn't even know there was a Windows Home Server coming out. But there is. And if you want to know what it is,…

Emre Kiciman is a researcher in MSR focusing on solving hard problems in the field of automated systems management of large scale distributed systems. Basically, he works on algorithms and systems that can be used to understand how systems are working, independent of complexity, by…