I recently attended SPC12 with many of my colleagues from AIS. One of the sessions I really enjoyed was High Availability Solutions with SharePoint Server 2013 delivered by Bill Baer. This sessions was geared toward the ITPro (admin) audience and detailed the options when making SharePoint Highly Available. During this session I found it interesting how much time was spent talking about mirroring. Mirroring is now considered a deprecated technology but is still supported by SharePoint 2013. Today I’d like […]
This week, many AIS team members are attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. We’ll be posting blog posts from each of them as they learn what’s new and what’s exciting during sessions, demonstrations and other conference highlights. We’re out at the SharePoint Conference 2012 this week and learning a ton about the new features of SharePoint 2013. One of particular interest to the IT pros should be the introduction of PowerShell 3.0. There are a number of new […]
This week, many AIS team members are attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. We’ll be posting blog posts from each of them as they learn what’s new and what’s exciting during sessions, demonstrations and other conference highlights. During yesterday’s breakout sessions, I attended Sean Livingston’s session on SharePoint 2013 Upgrade. A few minutes into the presentation, Sean offered up a quip that is certainly true across any platform level migration: “Upgrades lead to unpleasant feelings between the users […]
The Obama Administration is betting big on Big Data: $200 million, in fact. Big Data refers to the…well, BIG and unwieldy sets of data that exceed the capabilities of conventional database systems. This data can be incredibly useful, even game-changing, but first you have to figure out how properly process it. In past, this simply cost too much money. Today, thanks to cloud architecture, big data is finally in reach for even the smallest enterprise.