Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft System Center 2012 team have partnered to bring you an exciting opportunity to learn what you need to know to deploy, manage and maintain Microsoft’s private cloud solution. Leveraging the popular Jump Start virtual classroom approach, the industry’s most gifted cloud experts will show attendees why this new private cloud solution, based on System Center 2012 and Windows Server, has garnered so much attention.

Here are the details:

• Course: “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start”
• Date/Time: April 3-4, 2012 from 9:00am – 5:00pm PST
• Where: Live virtual classroom (online from wherever you are)
• Cost: FREE!
• Target audience: IT Professionals (IT Implementers, managers, decision makers)

Private Cloud is the future of IT, and the future is now. Spend the day at our IT Camp and learn about Microsoft's virtualization solution, Hyper-V, the first step on your path to mastering Private Cloud. You'll embark on an interactive journey as you learn the foundation of cloud services, Hyper-V, through architecture, networking, virtual hard drives, and virtual machines.
A full day of lecture, demo and hands-on labs our free IT Camp will give you the jumpstart you need on Private Cloud. Seating is limited so reserve your place now!

Check the table below to find a city near you!!!

Also, note the Camp Requirements below in RED. If you want to do the hands-on lab component you'll need to bring a laptop that meets the listed requirements.

CAMP REQUIREMENTS:

Please bring your laptop with the following minimum requirements:

• 4GB RAM
• 20 GB of free disk space
• x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology
• Basic install of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with the Hyper-V Role enabled. For a free download of the evaluation version click HERE.

We also highly recommend all attendees downloading and getting yourselves familiar with System Center 2012 to facilitate your learning on the many scenarios that we will walk through in our technical demos and hands-on labs throughout "The Future of IT" series of events.

Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, a management solution for the virtualized data center, lets a system administrator manage virtualization hosts, networking, and storage resources. With Virtual Machine Manager 2012, you can optimize your existing investments by managing multiple-hypervisor environments in a single pane of glass. In this webcast, we demonstrate how you can use Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to create and deploy virtual machines and private clouds. We show how you can pool and dynamically allocate virtualized data center resources, enabling self-service infrastructure experience for your business, with flexible role-based delegation and access control.

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Have you built a private cloud lab with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and need to have some questions answered? Join our IT pro evangelists for this fun, interactive, Q&A online discussion about the private cloud. We give you tips and tricks about these products and answer your questions about Microsoft's private cloud solutions.

When

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Register

Click HERE or on the TechNet graphic above to register.

Have questions about Microsoft's Private Cloud solutions?  Listen to our IT Live Private Cloud Chat recorded recently.

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Presented By Your East Region IT Pro Evangelists:

John Baker - https://blogs.technet.com/johnbaker Twitter: @johnbake

Blain Barton - https://blogs.technet.com/blainbar Twitter: @blainbar

Yung Chou - https://blogs.technet.com/yungchou Twitter: @yungchou

Bob Hunt - https://www.bobhunt.net Twitter: @bobhms

Dan Stolts - https://www.itproguru.com Twitter: @itproguru

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System Center 2012 RC

Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1

Deploying the infrastructure for a private cloud is just the first step. In today’s episode Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, John Baker previews for us the “Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager to ensure that infrastructure SLAs are met which means less downtime, better user experiences and lower overall costs. TechNet Virtual Labs allow you to quickly and easily try out Microsoft’s newest products for free in 90 minutes or less. No complex setup or installation required.

Click here to check out TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Resources:

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Are you ready for Private Cloud? Take a free 10-minute assessment
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download All Available System Center 2012 products here
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

Blogs:

• John Baker’s Blog
• Server and Cloud Platform Blog
• Private Cloud Architecture Blog

Videos:

• TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
• TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider: Building a Service Template in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
• TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider - An Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Private Cloud Security Basics Part 1 | Part 2

Virtual Labs:

• TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012

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In today’s episode I preview the “Building a Service Template” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to delegate private cloud access to users and admins, as well as how to create a new private cloud, virtual machines and service templates all before deploying a service to the cloud. TechNet Virtual Labs allow you to quickly and easily try out Microsoft’s newest products for free in 90 minutes or less. No complex setup or installation required.

Click here to check out TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 - Building a Service Template

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Resources:

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Are you ready for Private Cloud? Take a free 10-minute assessment
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download All Available System Center 2012 products here
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

Blogs:

• John Baker’s Blog
• Server and Cloud Platform Blog
• Private Cloud Architecture Blog

Videos:

• TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider - An Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012
• Your First Steps to Building a Private Cloud (3 part series)
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program
• TechNet Radio: IT Time–Microsoft Virtual Academy - System Center 2012 and the Private Cloud Course Preview
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Virtual Academy -System Center VMM 2012 and Configuration Manager 2012 Course Preview
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Private Cloud Security Basics Part 1 | Part 2

Virtual Labs:

• TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012

In this episode I preview the “Building Your Cloud Infrastructure” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to streamline network and storage resources that are allocated to virtual machines as well as how to create new Hyper-V hosts and host clusters. TechNet Virtual Labs allow you to quickly and easily try out Microsoft’s newest products for free in 90 minutes or less. No complex setup or installation required.

Click here to check out TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 - Building Your Cloud Infrastructure

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Resources:

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Are you ready for Private Cloud? Take a free 10-minute assessment
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download All Available System Center 2012 products here
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Free 180 Day Trial! Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

Blogs:

• John Baker’s Blog
• Server and Cloud Platform Blog
• Private Cloud Architecture Blog

Videos:

• TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider - An Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012
• Your First Steps to Building a Private Cloud (3 part series)
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program
• TechNet Radio: IT Time–Microsoft Virtual Academy - System Center 2012 and the Private Cloud Course Preview
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Virtual Academy -System Center VMM 2012 and Configuration Manager 2012 Course Preview
• TechNet Radio: IT Time – Private Cloud Security Basics Part 1 | Part 2

Virtual Labs:

• TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012

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Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business division leaders participated in a webcast, “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud” where they announced the release candidate of System Center 2012 and simplified Microsoft’s private cloud management products. 

Only Microsoft is both building a global scale public cloud platform and enabling private clouds to blossom (with Windows Sever and System Center) and only Microsoft offers customers the flexibility to choose how/where they want to run their cloud applications.  Microsoft’s private cloud solutions benefit from the feedback loop of delivering our cloud services at massive scale and applying those learnings to our on-premises products.  Brad Anderson published a blog post that describes how public and private clouds come together.

For IT pros, and the developers that work with them, managing applications and environments is key to transforming IT infrastructure into services the business can use to quickly and reliably deliver applications from the cloud.  With a deep understanding of customers’ applications acquired through years of delivering industry leading IT products, Microsoft’s System Center can manage applications running on physical servers, virtualized servers, private clouds or in the public cloud.

I encourage you watch the “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud”webcast and learn more.

Also, if you want to build out your own Private Cloud using Microsoft Evaluation software click on the link below.

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The Microsoft private cloud experience is only a few clicks away in the TechNet Evaluation Center. The Microsoft private cloud evaluation includes a convenient single download of all System Center 2012 components, with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 as an available option. Access to the evaluation resource center will help guide your experience from installation and configuration to the demonstration of powerful private cloud capability scenarios.

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Private Cloud Evaluation

Download all System Center 2012 components, with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 as optional.