Did you know — there are over 17,000 Microsoft Certified Trainers in 150 different countries. Microsoft Certified Trainers are experts on Microsoft technologies and include classroom and e-learning instructors, learning consultants, authors, conference presenters and even user group leaders

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Interview with Tjeerd Veninga, Microsoft MCT Community Lead

Two former Amazon executives responsible for the development of Amazon’s EC2 cloud service , Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, launched Nimbula Cloud Operating System. Nimbula has been in covert development since 2009 after acquiring 5.75 million dollars in funding

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Nimbula Goes After the Enterprise Cloud

Born to Learn is without a doubt, the number 1 resource for Microsoft learning, exam, and certification information (and so much more) for current and aspiring MCPs and MCTs, Microsoft partners and many others. The Born to Learn blog was started in September of 2008 by Ken Rosen, Director of Community, Marketing and Evangelism Team with Microsoft Learning after taking over Trika’s blog .

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Train Signal Interviews Born to Learn’s Ken Rosen

It is nearly impossible to find a corporate network today that doesn’t have a connection to the Internet.

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CompTIA Security+ Cert Prep: Application Security Threats

Earlier this month, the Microsoft Learning team announced a new entry level certification, the Microsoft Technology Associate Certification . Designed specifically for students aspiring to become IT professionals and developers, the MTA certifications are based on 80 percent knowledge and 20 percent skills. The MTA is only available at licensed academic institutions.

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Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certification

As all of the people reading this article probably know, BGP can be a beast that very few network engineers and consultants ever really battle, as it is used only on a specific type of network. This type of network is that of ISP’s and large enterprises with multiple external connectivity points. So why is it used in this way

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Cisco BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Basics

The good folks at Home Server Land are giving away three copies of our Windows Home Server Training this week. The site is dedicated to all things Home Server and includes helpful articles, forums, several wikis dealing with different Home Server topics, as well as media and downloads and even a Home Server store. Needless to say, Home Server Land is a one-stop-shop for Home Server users and enthusiasts

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Win Free Home Server Training at Home Server Land

After years of lamenting the shortcomings of Windows Vista, Windows 7 was released to resounding virtual applause and much media fanfare. Intrigued, I installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine on my Ubuntu box

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Top 7 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks for Power Users

I have found the Iomega SMB level network attached storage (NAS) arrays to be very powerful and flexible units. I recently aquired an Iomega Ix4-200D which is a 4TB NAS or SAN (which runs for under $999). It does not only Windows file share but can also be enabled for iSCSI (and many other protocols).

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Video: Configuring an Iomega SAN and VMware vSphere for iSCSI

Application virtualization is simply defined as removing the application from the Operating System (OS).  In a typical sense, you install software on an OS and it configures the registry and intertwines with the OS.  The only way to remove it from the OS is to use the uninstall program from Add/Remove Programs. In a typical network, hundreds of applications are deployed and they all have to be managed. With application virtualization, you can abstract the OS resources and present them to the application as a virtual resource.

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What is VMware ThinApp and How Do I Use It?

Of all of our video training releases over the years, I have to admit that we received the most calls, emails and requests about our Windows 7 course. That’s why I’m so happy to announce today the official release of our Windows 7 Administration Training

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Released: Windows 7 Administration Training

For many of us, the decision to transition from Windows to Linux (or Mac to Linux) was a thoughtful, decidedly analytical process.

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How to Install Sun VirtualBox and Widows 7 in Ubuntu 9.10

Earlier this week, I posted about the new VCAP Certification that VMware has recently introduced to help close the huge gap between the VCP and VCDX certified professionals. Today I thought we’d take a step back and review the VCP (VMware Certified Professional) and VCDX (VMware Certified Design Expert) certifications.

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VMware Certification: Preparing for the VCP & VCDX

When we think of VMware products, most of us automatically think about their line of server products. Perhaps, most notably, vSphere.

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VMware 101: Which VMware Products Are Right For You?

Today, VMware has over 50,000 VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and 41+ VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX). The VCP is VMware’s introductory certification

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How to Earn Your VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)

Back in December I posted a video covering VMware Go a powerful, free product from VMware that is aimed at helping SMBs in moving towards virtualization. VMware Go is essentially a guide for companies new to virtualization that will help with the installation and configuration steps. VMware Go has been hugely successful and recently a new version of the web-based service has been released

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New VMware Go Video: The On-Ramp To Virtualization

J. Peter Bruzzese’s session Windows 7 at Mach 5 just kicked off and it’s a packed house. We’ve got every seat filled, people sitting on the floor in front, standing room only around the exterior of the room and people are even out in the hallway looking in! The session is all about Windows 7 and the goal is to share 50 — yes 50! — tips and tricks in only 75 minutes! Peter started out with a fun hack of the Windows Experience Index.

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J. Peter Bruzzese Windows 7 Tips Session at TechEd 2010

I spent some time with Microsoft going over Windows 2008 Server core. Here is a tutorial to help you get up to speed on how to perform a command line server core installation on Windows Server 2008.

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How Do I Install Windows 2008 Server Core?

If you are in the process of reviewing desktop virtualization offerings for your infrastructure, here is a cheat sheet on what Microsoft brings to the table. Let’s begin by defining desktop virtualization. Desktop virtualization is simply a way to separate a personal PC/Laptop environment from a physical machine through a client/server environment

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Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization Offering

Back in the late 90’s, I tried Mandrake Linux. It was one of only a handful of distributions (or distros) at the time and as my job was too entrenched in Microsoft technologies, I didn’t make the switch then. Today that number has grown exponentially

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Top 10 Linux Distros