{"id":12024,"date":"2012-01-17T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:58:04","slug":"announcing-the-microsoft-private-cloud-computing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12024","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Microsoft Private Cloud Computing Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that Microsoft has just started their Microsoft Private Cloud\/System Center 2012 campaign with their \u201ctransforming IT\u201d production, it was thought that this was the perfect time to announce a new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft-Private-Cloud-Computing-Aidan\/dp\/1118251474%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1118251474\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Private Cloud Computing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft-Private-Cloud-Computing-Aidan\/dp\/1118251474%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1118251474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Untitled\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Untitled.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWritten by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, this one-of-a-kind book is an essential resource for IT administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure. You&#8217;ll quickly learn how cloud computing offers significant cost savings while also providing new levels of speed and agility. Serving as a how-to guide, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing walks you through building a secure, internal cloud and delivering it as a service to your company suing Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Discusses fabric management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)2012 <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Examines how to provide network and storage with VMM 2012 <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Looks at the VMM library configuration <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Discusses private cloud and cloud service management with Microsoft App Controller<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Microsoft Private Cloud Computing is a must-have comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of implementing a private cloud\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And just who are these \u201cexpert authors\u201d.&#160; Let me introduce them to you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s me (Virtual Machine MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_elway\" target=\"_blank\">@joe_elway<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/h30507.www3.hp.com\/t5\/user\/viewprofilepage\/user-id\/42439\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Lownds<\/a> (Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/patricklownds\" target=\"_blank\">@patricklownds<\/a>, and my co-author on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mastering-Hyper-V-Deployment-Aidan-Finn\/dp\/0470876530%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0470876530\" target=\"_blank\">Mastering Hyper-V Deployment<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianflynn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damian Flynn<\/a> (Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/damian_flynn\" target=\"_blank\">@damian_flynn<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyper-v.nu\/archives\/category\/hans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Vredevoort<\/a> (Windows Server Failover Clustering MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hvredevoort\" target=\"_blank\">@hvredevoort<\/a>, the technical reviewer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mastering-Hyper-V-Deployment-Aidan-Finn\/dp\/0470876530%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0470876530\" target=\"_blank\">Mastering Hyper-V Deployment<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s a long story behind the book.&#160; It started out with one concept that was talked over initially via email and a chat.&#160; Then when we started to get to grips with the concept \u2026 well \u2026 everything took a left turn at Dundalk and went a different direction.&#160; The size and complexity of the project literally blew up as we figured out what we really needed to write about.&#160; That\u2019s when we needed to add more expertise \u2026 and boy did we do that in style!&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Credit where credit\u2019s due, after the initial concept development and planning, I stepped back a wee bit and took care of the intro chapters.&#160; I had a l-o-n-g period of writing in 2010 and I wanted to take a break from it in 2011.&#160; The meat of this book has been written by Patrick, Damian, and Hans.&#160; Technical reviewing is being handled by Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/kristiannese.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristian Nese<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KristianNese\" target=\"_blank\">@KristianNese<\/a>), helped by the fact that he has already published a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookworld.no\/product_info.php?products_id=4301\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud Computing<\/a> in Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, the cover that\u2019s available now is a preliminary artwork \u2026 hence my cloning out the author listing. It will be updated to reflect the work done by Hans, Damian, and Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft-Private-Cloud-Computing-Aidan\/dp\/1118251474%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1118251474\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Private Cloud Computing<\/a> will be available on May 22nd, 2012.&#160; And yes, I would expect there to be ebook editions \u2013 just don\u2019t ask me when.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2c1a0e01-56ca-4a05-8eaf-fc1c668aae63\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Books\" rel=\"tag\">Books<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Private+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Private Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that Microsoft has just started their Microsoft Private Cloud\/System Center 2012 campaign with their \u201ctransforming IT\u201d production, it was thought that this was the perfect time to announce a new book, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing: \u201cWritten by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, this one-of-a-kind book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcing the Microsoft Private Cloud Computing Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,181,88,193,196],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-hyper-v","tag-private-cloud","tag-system-center","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}