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Aidan Finn, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), has been working in IT since 1996. He has worked as a consultant and administrator for the likes of Innofactor Norway, Amdahl DMR, Fujitsu, Barclays and Hypo Real Estate Bank International where he dealt with large and complex IT infrastructures and MicroWarehouse Ltd. where he worked with Microsoft partners in the small/medium business space.

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Microsoft to Combat Advanced Persistent Threats

Microsoft is working on a new project, code-named “Sonar,” to offer “malware detonation as a service,” according to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. What could this mean? In this article, I will explain Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and how the security industry is adapting to deal with them. Traditional Malware Detection Way back when I was in…

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Thoughts on System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 7

Microsoft released Update Rollup 7 (UR7) for System Center 2012 R2 about 1 month ago. Read why it’s probably safe to deploy this update now.

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Microsoft Surface Turns a Corner

Aidan Finn shares his thoughts on how Microsoft turned its Surface business from a billion dollar lost into a multi-billion dollar business.

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Use Azure as Virtual DR Site for VMware and Physical Servers

Learn more about Microsoft Azure’s in-the-cloud disaster recovery (DRaaS) solution for VMware virtual machines and physical servers.

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Azure Backup of IaaS VMs Generally Available

Microsoft has made Azure Backup for IaaS virtual machines generally available. Learn about the improvements made to this vital service with this release.

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Microsoft heads back to court on September 9th

September 9th is the day when Microsoft goes to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to argue that non-Microsoft data residing in Microsoft datacenter in a non-US jurisdiction should not be subject to US warrants.

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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Versus Virtual NUMA

Aidan Finn describes how Dynamic Memory and guest-aware NUMA offer different benefits and are mutually exclusive.

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A Look at Microsoft’s New Hybrid Cloud Features

Learn about Microsoft’s recent enhancements made to on-premises and in-cloud monitoring, online backup, and backing up VMware virtual machines.

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Azure Virtual Machines SLA: A Primer

Aidan Finn explains how you can deploy virtual machines to meet the system requirements for Microsoft’s 99.95% SLA on Azure VMs.

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Windows 10’s Continuum Killed the Personal Computer

The dream is no longer a PC in every home. Aidan Finn believes that Windows 10 Continuum has the potential to kill off the PC as we know it.

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