I’m in the middle of a CloudPortal deployment at the moment. CloudPortal, in case you wondered, is the product formerly knows as Cortex which Citrix bought last year. It is an extensive portal for service providers to provision services (duh) to end-users. The cool thing about CloudPortal (CPSM) is that is insanely extensive, and that
System Center Orchestrator 2012 frustrations
This is me, trying to design a Runbook in System Center Orchestrator. The “head against wall” should really be part of it’s logo. Orchestrator, in case you don’t know it, is the product/company formerly known as Opalis, a company Microsoft bought a couple of years back. And the stuff you can do in Orchestrator, its
WS2012: Live
Stuff is so fast-paced at the moment I pretty much just sleep, work, repeat. In all the chaos and change I wanted to make a note of today just to be able to save the date for reference. We are live on Windows Server 2012. In production. Deployed. And although I’m eagerly awaiting at least a
New job!
After about 5 months of snowobarding, travelling around Norway and relaxing I’m back in front of a (work) computer. I now work at Hatteland Solutions, a service provider + consulting company in Norway. My position says “Senior Solutions Architect”, and my task is pretty much to develop new cool services as well as optimize the
The big “8”
Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been out for a few weeks already (both client and server). You’ve probably downloaded the client and installed it in a separate partition and played with it for a while. Then you went back to your (Windows 7) OS and got some work done. It’s weird – Windows 8 is
Break coming up
I’m taking a break from working for a few months. I need to “reset” after a weird year. It just struck me how lucky I am to be able to do just that. Anyways, I’ll probably write here from time to time as I continue to read up on subjects like System Center, IT Management,
THE BUSINESS VALUE OF VIRTUALIZATION
Believe it or not, but I’m working with a customer who just never got on the “virtualization train”. Every other customer I have worked with the last 2 years are one some form of virtualization platform, using SAN backends, and a unified virtualization management layer on top. Just not these guys. I’m trying to
Excuse me, while I kiss the cloud
I’m pretty much reading everything I find from Jeffrey Snover. Not just because the guy is regarded as the inventor of PowerShell, but because he puts that whole PowerShell thing into a larger context, and he’s probably the one who does that best. “Cloud computing” as a buzzword is pretty much used up. Cloud Computing
