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Nov052018November 5, 2018November 5, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
Thomas Maurer Speaking at Geekmania

Speaking at Geekmania 2018

Posted in Cloud, Events, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Speaking, Windows Server, Work

This week one of my last speaking engagements for 2018 is coming up, which will be Geekmania 2018. I am happy to be again one of the speakers at the Swiss Geekmania conference. Geekmania is focused on IT Pro topics around Microsoft technology. This Friday (9.11.2018) 18 speakers will speak in 3 parallels tracks in 24 sessions, covering the latest and greatest about Windows, Windows Server, System Center and Azure.

My session will focus on Microsoft Azure Stack:

Geekmania 2018

Azure Stack – Your Cloud Your Datacenter (German)

Microsoft Azure Stack ist nun verfügbar als Azure Appliance in ihrem Datacenter. Lernen sie was Azure Stack ist und wie Azure Stack als Erweiterung zu Microsoft Azure nutzen können, um services in einer Hybrid Cloud bereitzustellen.

Next to me there will be a lot of great community speakers present. Geekmania is always a lot of fun, so hopefully see you there!


Nov022018November 2, 2018November 2, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
Thomas Maurer speaking at Experts Live Europe

Azure Stack Operations Interview at Experts Live Europe

Posted in Cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Speaking, Windows Server, Windows Server 2019, Work

As you may know I was speaking at Experts Live Europe 2018 in Prague a couple of days ago, which was a lot of fun. In my sessions, I was talking about Azure Stack Operations and Windows Server 2019. Between does sessions I had time to quickly talk about Azure Stack Operations and Experts Live Europe in a short interview.

I really enjoyed the conference and hopefully I will be back next year. If you want to see more videos from Experts Live Europe 2018, check out the Experts Live TV YouTube channel. Thanks to the Experts Live team for the great conference and the great opportunity to speak there.


Oct292018October 29, 2018October 29, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
HPE Azure Stack Innovation Center

Let’s talk about the HPE Azure Stack Innovation Center

Posted in Cloud, Hardware, HP, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, ProLiant Server, Speaking, Webinar, Work

Together with HPE, I did some short videos about HPE Azure Stack and the HPE Azure Stack Innovation Center in Geneva. The videos are very short to just give you a quick idea about the different scenarios and the benefits of the Innovation Center as well as the HPE solutions. If you want to know more about it, you can check out my blog and look for my articles on Azure Stack and Azure.

About the Azure Stack Innovation Centers

To help you get started on your journey with Microsoft Azure Stack, HPE and Microsoft have built Azure Stack Innovation Centers. Staffed by HPE and Microsoft experts, and leveraging the latest industry-leading Azure Stack hardware and software solutions, the Azure Stack Innovation Centers are designed to help simplify and accelerate your hybrid cloud journey.

In simple words, the Innovation Centers are a place to try out Azure Stack multi-node systems, do proof of concepts and test your real-world workloads. We used the Azure Stack Innovations Centers to work with customers, to try out their workloads directly on a full multi-node system. This helps to better understand the benefits and challenges for the specific customer workloads and get some hands-on experience. It is also a great possibility to test out the Azure Stack Operator capabilities and tasks.

Thomas Maurer about the HPE Azure Stack Innovation Center

Thomas Maurer talks about how the HPE Microsoft Azure Innovation Center helps partners and customers on Azure Stack Implementation projects!

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Oct032018October 3, 2018October 3, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
Thomas Maurer Speaker

Speaking at Cloud Camp 2018 Dublin

Posted in Containers, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Nano Server, Server Core, Speaking, Virtualization, Windows Server, Windows Server 2019, Work

I am very excited to announce that I will be speaking at Cloud Camp 2018 in Dublin. Cloud Camp is Irelands Inaugural Conference for Microsoft Cloud & Server 2019. The conference takes place on October 17th 2018 in the Dublin Convention Center. In my sessions I will be speaking about Microsoft Azure Stack and Windows Server 2019, the latest and greatest new features.

Cloud Camp

Azure Stack - Your Cloud Your Datacenter

Microsoft released Azure Stack as an Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage and operate a Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience. In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experience during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

Cloud Camp

Windows Server 2019 - The Next Generation of Software-Defined Datacenter

Join this session for the best of Windows Server 2019, about the new innovation and improvements of Windows Server. Learn how Microsoft enhances the SDDC feature like Hyper-V, Storage and Networking and get the most out of the new Azure Hybrid Integration and Container features. You’ll get an overview about the new, exciting improvements that are in Windows Server and how they’ll improve your day-to-day job.   In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations in Windows Server 2019 and the Semi-Annual Channel including: ○ Windows Server Containers ○ Azure Integration ○ Hyper-V features ○ Storage ○ Networking ○ Security ○ Windows Server Containers And more!

About Cloud Camp

In a time of rapid changes to “the cloud” – with continuous and frequent changes to Windows Server; Azure and even Microsoft 365. Add in the ever increasing importance to security and the challenges of compliance at its too easy to fall behind.

Cloud Camp brings together international speakers to one event where you will learn the latest about digital transformation, IT modernisation, productivity, security and compliance and governance.


Sep262018September 26, 2018September 26, 20182Commentsby Thomas Maurer
Azure Stack GPU Support

Microsoft and OEMs working on Azure Stack GPU Support

Posted in Cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack

This week at the Microsoft Ingnite 2018 conference in Orlando FL, Microsoft invited customers and partners from all over the world. In one of the sessions about Azure Stack, Daniel Savage (Principal PM Manager at Microsoft) announced that Microsoft is working on GPU support for Azure Stack. Azure Stack GPU support will bring Azure n-series virtual machines to Azure Stack which then can be used for various scenarios. This was not publicly announced yet in the Azure Stack roadmap, which was last updated in February 2018 and will soon see a refresh.

Microsoft was not mentioning the exact timeline, but it looks like when can expect this in the near future.

Azure Stack Key Roadmap Azure Services

For Azure Services on Azure Stack, Microsoft also announced that Microsoft is not only working on bringing Azure IoT Hub to Azure Stack (which was announced a while ago), but also bringing Event Hub down to Azure Stack. One of the main reasons for this is that IoT Hub has some dependencies on Azure Event Hub.

You can watch the full session on the Microsoft Ignite page.


Sep042018September 4, 2018September 4, 20181Commentby Thomas Maurer
Azure Stack Backup with Azure Backup Server

Protect Azure Stack Tenant Workloads with Azure Backup Server

Posted in Cloud, Hardware, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Virtualization, Work

If you are running Azure Stack in your datacenter, you also want to backup workloads running on Azure Stack. This blog post covers how you can backup Azure Stack tenant workloads with Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup allows you to protect on-premise workloads running on different platforms as well as on Azure Stack and store long-term data in Azure.

Why protecting Azure Stack workloads with Azure Backup Server

Microsoft Azure Backup Server is included as a free download with Azure Backup that enables cloud backups and disk backups for workloads like SQL, SharePoint and Exchange regardless if these workloads are running on Hyper-V, VMware, Physical servers or Azure Stack. It also provides a central console to protect these workloads. If you compare this to the Azure Backup Agent, where you have to configure the agent on every single server. The Azure Backup Server also allows you to not only do file backup, but also backup of applications like SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange and more. This gives you flexibility and centralized management to back up your infrastructure as a service (IaaS) workloads on Azure Stack.

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Aug272018August 27, 2018August 27, 20181Commentby Thomas Maurer
SCOM Days 2018

Speaking at SCOM Days 2018 Gothenburg

Posted in Cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Speaking, System Center, Work

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at the Swedish SCOM-dagen 2018 conference in Gothenburg. This years main topic of the SCOM-dagen or SCOM Days 2018, is Hybrid Cloud Monitoring. In my session I will cover an overview about Azure Stack and than focus on Azure Stack operations and monitoring.

The SCOM Days 2018 will take place on October 10 in Gothenburg. This will be the first time at SCOM Days and I am already very exited. I heard a lot of great things about this event, and of course I am also happy to visit Gothenburg for the first time.

SCOM Day attracts Operations Manager users from all over Sweden. Since the start in 2014, SCOM Day has turned into being the most popular event for the Swedish System Center Operations Manager community.

My Session at SCOM Days

SCOM Days 2018

Azure Stack Operations

Already looking forward to this event, and hopefully meet you there!



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    My Name is Thomas Maurer. Microsoft MVP. Work as a Solutions Architect and Technology Lead for itnetX, a consulting and engineering company located in Switzerland. I am focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter solutions based Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Virtualization and Microsoft Azure.

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