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One of our local MVPs, Sainath K.E.V is featured on TechNet Radio. Tune in to this TechNet Radio to hear from him about his view on cloud computing. He also talked about his expereinces on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Hyper-V related deployment from his actual day job, more importantly he talked about Cloud Security. Take action and try out System Center 2012 products yourself, download System Center 2012 through one Single download today!

If you are looking to learn about the new SQL Server 2012. Here are some great resources to help you. Over at Microsoft Virtual Academy , there are 5 FREE online training modules for SQL Server 2010. Sign up for FREE and enjoy the great content. Breakthrough Insights using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Analysis Services Breakthrough Insights using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Scalable data warehouse Breakthrough Insights using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Reporting Services Cloud on your terms with Microsoft SQL server 2012: Scale on demand Mission Critical Confidence using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 The Final and Complete edition of of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is also now available for FREE download. Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 includes 10 chapters: PART I DATABASE ADMINISTRATION (by Ross Mistry) 1. SQL Server 2012 Editions and Engine Enhancements 2. High-Availability and Disaster-Recovery Enhancements 3. Performance and Scalability 4. Security Enhancements 5. Programmability and Beyond-Relational Enhancements PART II BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT (by Stacia Misner) 6. Integration Services 7. Data Quality Services 8. Master Data Services 9. Analysis Services and PowerPivot 10. Reporting Services

“A day in the life” at Contoso - Work Smarter with Future of Productivity (5 Series) Date: 21st March Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM Location: Level 21 Auditorium, Microsoft, No.1 Marina Boulevard, One Marina Boulevard, Singapore 0189189 SharePoint, Office and Messaging Talk user groups are co-organizing a series of meet ups on Future of Productivity! The activities in this whole series is represent a day in the life of the characters at work during a busy period. Karen starts her day remote and on the go. Along with her fellow Contoso employees, she will be keeping up with email, responding to a sales request and finding people and information in order to effectively analyze data needed to complete a sales proposal and presentation. Karen involves Allie and the Contoso Singapore office to complete a sales proposal and presentation for a customer, A. Datum. This will break out into 5 different Series (5 meetup) Series 1 - Be Productive on the go Series 2 - Stay on top of your inbox Series 3 - Communicate and connect in real time with customer Series 4 - Gain business insights Series 5 - Create content collaboratively Come and experience how Microsoft can help you in productivity. *Note: Due to there is not enough of laptop, please bring your own laptops with Office 2010 installed to participate by accessing SharePoint 2010 and be a part of the experience as well.

I saw this post by John Westworth couple of days back. John Westworth is a Technology Strategist at UK. I like his post a lot. I don’t have any child myself, but I can relate to his story. This is how he sees System Center 2012. For more details go to: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx Try out System Center 2012 through one Single download today!

I always say Microsoft Virtual Academy is a great resource to go to. Why? As Windows Server “8” is available to all FREE, the new course on Windows Server “8” is also available to help you to be ready! Join MVA and enroll to the FREE new Windows Server “8” course! Course introduction: Attend this course to learn how to cloud optimize your IT with Windows Server “8”. We will show you how you can take advantage of the skills and investment you’ve already made in building a familiar and consistent platform. Windows Server “8” builds on that familiarity and cloud optimizes your IT. With Windows Server “8”, you gain all the Microsoft experience behind building and operating private and public clouds, delivered as a dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform. The course will cover how Windows Server “8” delivers value in four key ways including how it takes you beyond virtualization, delivers the power of many servers, opens the door to every app on any cloud, and enables the modern workstyle.

The wait is finally over! Windows Server “8” Beta is now available for download! Try out exciting features like NIC Teaming, SMB 2.2, Share Nothing Live Migration Hyper-V Replica. ……. ….. And many many more other features. Go to TechNet Evaluation Center for all the latest resources and installation guide. Wondering what is new? Check out the TechNet Library on Windows Server “8” Be the first to experience all that Windows Server “8” has to offer, including a cloud optimized, a highly dynamic, available and cost-effective server platform. ...

Recently we have series of IT Camps on Virtualization and Private Cloud in Singapore. Check out Spiffy.sg article to find out more about the IT Camps. One of the topics that generates quite a lot interests is the Hyper-V Network Optimization. We covered quite few network optimization technologies during the Camps. Here is a quick summary on these networking optimizations TCP Chimney offload VM Chimney VMQ Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) TCP Chimney TCP Chimney Offload is a networking technology that allows the work associated with moving data across a network to be offloaded from the host computer’s CPU to the physical network adapter. In Windows Server 2008, TCP Chimney Offload enables the Windows networking subsystem to offload the processing of a TCP/IP connection to a network adapter that includes special support for TCP/IP offload processing. The offload capabilities must be enabled in the driver for the physical network adapter in the root partition. VM Chimney VM-Chimney (TCP Offload) allows the CPU workload associated with TCP/IP traffic to be offloaded to the physical NIC, reducing processor usage and increasing network performance. This has been available for physical host, now it is available for the guest operating systems. VMQ VMQ is a technology that allows the physical NIC to create unique virtual network queues for each virtual machine (VM) on the host, allowing network packets to be passed directly from the hypervisor to the VM. This reduces a lot of overhead normally associated with network traffic. Note: If a NIC has support for both VMQ and VM-Chimney, VMQ will be used. Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) resolves the single-processor bottleneck by allowing the receive side network load from a network adapter to be shared across multiple processors. RSS enables packet receive-processing to scale with the number of available processors. This allows the Windows Networking subsystem to take advantage of multi-core and many core processor architectures. Jumbo Frames Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload. Conventionally, jumbo frames can carry up to 9000 bytes of payload, but variations exist. Many Gigabit Ethernet switches and Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards support jumbo frames. Hyper-V Networking Best Practices Use multiple network adapters on physical hosts To ensure good networking performance, you should use separate physical adapters for the following different networks. ...

Singapore SQL User Group is running a special meet up with industry expert to talk about their expereince on implementing Data Mining. Join your peers for a special meet up on 6th Feb. Data Mini****ng for Social Moderation The BBC (the British Broadcasting Company), a known media force in Europe, implemented an in-database data mining solution for their public-facing website. The BBC encourages users to post comments and become part of their social media community. In this project, the BBC needed a way to improve the social moderation of millions of posts on thousands of forums. This presentation covers how SQL Server helped designing a model to dramatically help improving the quality and efficiency of the moderation. We also discuss cost efficiencies obtained in this project. More and more organizations will need to use enterprise solutions to handle high-volume social networking, learn from it, and eventually take actions that make sense to achieve their goals. Data Mining is one of the areas with more potential growth for SQL Server, and perhaps one of the least known ones by the SQL Server professionals. Speaker Profile: Fernando G. Guerrero. Global CEO of SolidQ. a Civil Engineer and former lecturer of Surveying and Photogrammetry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, he spent 15 years working in Indonesia, Morocco, Bolivia, Ecuador, the UK and the USA, in projects financed by the European Union, the European Investment Bank, The World Bank, and the Spanish International Cooperation Agency. Mr Guerrero is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences. He holds the honorific title of Microsoft Regional Director for Spain, and received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for SQL Server from 2000 until 2007 Venue: Microsoft Singapore Pte. Ltd. 1 Marina Boulevard #22-01 One Marina Boulevard Singapore 018989 Date/Time: 6 February 2012/7 pm onwards For confirmation please send email to sgsql@live.com

The definition, business value, and technology benefits of the “the cloud” have been hotly debated in recent months. Most agree that cloud computing can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and increase business agility in the market. In 2012, cloud computing will transition from hype and discussion, to part of every enterprise’s reality, and IT is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation and help business reap the benefits of cloud computing. Join us for a virtual event designed to help you explore your cloud options. It’s your chance to interact with Microsoft experts and with IT leaders like yourself, who have been putting cloud technology to work in their own organizations. You’ll be among the first to hear the latest private cloud news from Microsoft Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud Thursday,January 1__9, 2012, 11:00 A.M-1:00 P.M. Singapore Time Here’s what we have planned: •Hear from other senior IT professionals about how cloud computing can help you gain maximum competitive advantage with minimal risk. •Learn about Microsoft cloud offerings, including private, public, and hybrid cloud models. • Experience Microsoft private cloud solutions through the Microsoft Technology Center Microsoft Executive Panelists: Satya Nadella President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Brad Anderson Corporate Vice President, Management and Security Division, Microsoft Antoine Aguado Senior Director, Private Cloud and Server, M&O Microsoft Asia Pacific ...

Microsoft is actually the biggest beta testing customer for Microsoft. Microsoft IT deploys our pre-release product all the time. They feedback their learnings to products groups and some of them become best practices. In this video, You will see how Microsoft IT deployed System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to manage 280,000 users in the first phase of migration, which took less than 90 days. Configuration Manager 2012 was built on the vision of a user-centric client-management model with the vision of empowering the user, unifying infrastructure, and extending management control across the platform. You will hear more on how Microsoft IT benefit from these new features. Listen to the video to understand more. Download SCCM2012 to try it out.