(8368,40,'2013-08-05 15:24:29','2013-08-05 19:24:29','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple. In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<strong>Resilience</strong>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Integrity</strong>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<strong>Imagination</strong>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<strong>Adaptability</strong>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<strong>Reliability</strong>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','publish','open','open','','5-qualities-of-great-team-members','','','2013-08-05 15:28:48','2013-08-05 19:28:48','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8368',0,'post','',0),(8373,40,'2013-08-05 15:15:27','2013-08-05 19:15:27','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8369\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-3','','','2013-08-05 15:15:27','2013-08-05 19:15:27','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8370,40,'2013-08-05 15:13:26','2013-08-05 19:13:26','&nbsp;\n\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\n\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\n\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\n\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\n\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\n\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\n\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\n\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\n\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\n\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision','','','2013-08-05 15:13:26','2013-08-05 19:13:26','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8371,40,'2013-08-05 15:15:20','2013-08-05 19:15:20','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8369\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-2','','','2013-08-05 15:15:20','2013-08-05 19:15:20','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8372,40,'2013-08-05 15:18:44','2013-08-05 19:18:44','','Team','','inherit','open','open','','team1','','','2013-08-05 15:18:44','2013-08-05 19:18:44','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8374,40,'2013-08-05 15:20:00','2013-08-05 19:20:00','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-4','','','2013-08-05 15:20:00','2013-08-05 19:20:00','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8375,40,'2013-08-05 15:20:04','2013-08-05 19:20:04','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-5','','','2013-08-05 15:20:04','2013-08-05 19:20:04','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8376,40,'2013-08-05 15:21:36','2013-08-05 19:21:36','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-6','','','2013-08-05 15:21:36','2013-08-05 19:21:36','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8377,40,'2013-08-05 15:21:41','2013-08-05 19:21:41','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute and deliver. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Having team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and having leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-7','','','2013-08-05 15:21:41','2013-08-05 19:21:41','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8378,40,'2013-08-05 15:24:21','2013-08-05 19:24:21','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-8','','','2013-08-05 15:24:21','2013-08-05 19:24:21','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8379,40,'2013-08-05 15:24:29','2013-08-05 19:24:29','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple.  In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<b>Resilience</b>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-9','','','2013-08-05 15:24:29','2013-08-05 19:24:29','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8380,40,'2013-08-05 15:25:17','2013-08-05 19:25:17','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple. In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<strong>Resilience</strong>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<b>Integrity</b>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<b>Imagination</b>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<b>Adaptability</b>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<b>Reliability</b>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-10','','','2013-08-05 15:25:17','2013-08-05 19:25:17','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8381,40,'2013-08-05 15:29:52','2013-08-05 19:29:52','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\n\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\n\nWhy? It’s simple. In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\n\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\n\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\n\n<strong>Resilience</strong>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\n\n<strong>Integrity</strong>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\n\n<strong>Imagination</strong>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\n\n<strong>Adaptability</strong>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\n\n<strong>Reliability</strong>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\n\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-autosave','','','2013-08-05 15:29:52','2013-08-05 19:29:52','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8382,40,'2013-08-05 15:26:00','2013-08-05 19:26:00','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8372\" alt=\"Team\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Team1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\r\n\r\nJust days off of eGroup’s Quarterly Meeting—where updates, strategic vision and roadmaps are delivered throughout the day— I started thinking about the power of teamwork.\r\n\r\nWhy? It’s simple. In order to achieve greatness, you rely on individuals and their respective skills to come together and work in unison to ensure smooth project rollouts, and ultimately customer and company success. Day in and day out.\r\n\r\nVince Lombardi, the NFL’s best and most successful head coach, said it much more eloquently: “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”\r\n\r\nSo what makes a great team member? What are those characteristics and qualities? Here are five to get us started:\r\n\r\n<strong>Resilience</strong>. It’s horrible to lose a deal when you spent six months strategizing, refining, and pitching—over and over and over. It’s worse when a long-standing customer chooses to go another route. But having the ability to sensibly <i>review</i> and quickly <i>recover</i> is what I look for in team members. These team members typically have the best and most consistent attitudes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Integrity</strong>. At eGroup, we especially pride ourselves around the customer experience, and delivering what we said we would. In order to achieve this, we need consistent (see a pattern here?) and sound team members who can be relied upon to execute. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the mindset of “the end justifies the means” rules over what is right. Team members with integrity know what is right<i> </i>and do it <i>with</i> or <i>without </i>anyone watching.\r\n\r\n<strong>Imagination</strong>. I love working with others who find new solutions to old problems – in any area of the business from sales and marketing to engineering. I’m not saying to reinvent the wheel at every turn, but seeing new possibilities keeps us all on our toes and may in fact uncover a better, faster, and cheaper way to deliver a project or campaign. We often times say internally, “what got us here today, won’t get us there tomorrow.” In order to ultimately execute on that phrase, we must have imaginative team members.\r\n\r\n<strong>Adaptability</strong>. How boring would life and business be if everything went as planned? Exactly. As we all know, the technology solution provider business is full of surprises on the customer project front. But, even more so, from an industry perspective due to changing demands, market conditions, and emerging technologies. It’s no longer sufficient to be a “simple reseller” of product – one must provide value, customized solutions, cloud offerings, etc. Team members who can adapt quickly on a project without fear, and leadership who can adapt the business plan long before others jump on the wagon, are who I want to work with.\r\n\r\n<strong>Reliability</strong>. How much more awesome are you in your job when you can rely on others to do what they say they will do when they say they will do it?! Sounds harsh, but it’s true. We depend on our colleagues to fulfill their work commitments so that we in turn can fulfill our own. Follow through and achieving results is absolutely critical in our world. That said, we all fall victim to the “too much going on” excuse (which happens), but the reliable team members give you a heads up and address the issue before it harms the rest of the group.\r\n\r\nDo you agree?  What did I miss?','5 Qualities of Great Team Members','','inherit','open','open','','8368-revision-11','','','2013-08-05 15:26:00','2013-08-05 19:26:00','',8368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8368-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8505,23,'2013-08-15 10:16:33','2013-08-15 14:16:33','I am constantly surprised at the number of customers that still rely on manual or even paper based processes. These processes may be administrative in nature or they could be critical to producing a product or service. We have had great platforms on which to automate most, if not all, of these processes for a very long time - but yet we remain mired in manual processes.\r\n\r\nWhy is that? Well, it\'s mostly because the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes</em></span></p>\r\nWith Microsoft\'s SharePoint, that has changed. The upfront cost of automating your business processes has drastically reduced. How?  Microsoft\'s SharePoint Foundation comes with Windows Server and has most of the features you need in order to build automated processes.  With an investment into SharePoint Server (the paid version) you can do even more!\r\n\r\nAdditionally, there are many 3rd party solutions available that can make building these automated processes much easier. The point of this would be to get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners. This is an important factor when most IT departments are stretched well beyond their capable limits!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners</em></span></p>\r\nOne of my favorite processes to automate is the HR On-boarding process. From receiving resumes and applications to the new employee signing up for benefits and logging their time in the system for the first time; this process can be completely automated in most cases.\r\n\r\nLet\'s break it down.\r\n<h2>Forms</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Microsoft\'s InfoPath provides a powerful tool for building versatile forms that can connect to many different data sources. InfoPath can also be used to design forms that look exactly how you want them to look. Need a form that looks like a W2? Not a problem!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, 3rd party add-ons, such as Nintex Forms, provide even more features and capabilities. Typically, the cost of 3rd party add-ons is very affordable and easy to justify.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workflows</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the meat of the business automation process. In order to get data from point A to point B with data manipulation and lookups; you need workflows. Workflows are extremely powerful and can be used to pull data in from or push data to almost any data source, make web service calls, create Active Directory users, setup Exchange mailboxes, and much more!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, there are 3rd party add-ons that are highly recommended when considering big automation projects. These add-ons make designing and developing workflows very easy. Nintex Workflows and K2 are the big names in SharePoint workflows.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Records Management</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automating your processes typically means that you are going to generate a lot more data. This data can get very large, very quickly. Not only can it grow in size, but if it isn\'t controlled or structured properly it can get very messy. In order to manage this, we can setup rules to put data in the right place, retain it for a period of time, or archive it when appropriate.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Reporting</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\'s the point of collecting all of that data if you can\'t do some reporting on it? <a href=\"http://www.eweek.com/small-business/it-management-bi-top-government-cio-priorities-gartner/\">With Business Intelligence being the number one priority of CIOs according to Gartner</a>, now is the perfect time to start developing and/or executing on that BI plan. What if you could pinpoint a weak part of your process by reviewing reports? What if you could find that you are wasting huge amounts of money and just need to tweak your processes a little to stop the bleeding? These are just some examples of the scenarios where Big Data and BI can help make your business much more efficient.</p>\r\nThe point of all of this is to make your business more efficient so it can make more profit and do more.\r\n\r\nSo what are you waiting for?','Automating Your Business With SharePoint','','publish','open','open','','automating-your-business-with-sharepoint','','','2013-08-15 10:16:33','2013-08-15 14:16:33','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8505',0,'post','',0),(8384,16,'2013-08-06 12:01:25','2013-08-06 16:01:25','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\r\n\r\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for two great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; <strong>Failover Clustering</strong> and <strong>Database Mirroring</strong>. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post, I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup, one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\r\n\r\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been solid  for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly ONCE (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. It is a game changer from design and setup to failover and management. Give it a try or reach out to us for a demonstration and more information on how we can assist in deploying, configuring, or maintaining your SQL Server environment.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or, drop a question below and I\'ll be sure to answer!</p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','publish','open','open','','sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal','','','2013-08-06 12:01:25','2013-08-06 16:01:25','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8384',0,'post','',0),(8385,16,'2013-08-05 18:43:33','2013-08-05 22:43:33','','AG','','inherit','open','open','','ag','','','2013-08-05 18:43:33','2013-08-05 22:43:33','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(8386,16,'2013-08-05 18:43:35','2013-08-05 22:43:35','','AGCluster','','inherit','open','open','','agcluster','','','2013-08-05 18:43:35','2013-08-05 22:43:35','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(8387,16,'2013-08-05 18:46:00','2013-08-05 22:46:00','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\n\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\n\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\n\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\n\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\n\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availabil</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"></p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision','','','2013-08-05 18:46:00','2013-08-05 22:46:00','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8388,16,'2013-08-05 18:56:40','2013-08-05 22:56:40','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\n\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\n\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\n\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\n\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\n\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been a solid platform for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-2','','','2013-08-05 18:56:40','2013-08-05 22:56:40','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8389,16,'2013-08-05 18:56:48','2013-08-05 22:56:48','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\r\n\r\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\r\n\r\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been a solid platform for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-3','','','2013-08-05 18:56:48','2013-08-05 22:56:48','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8390,16,'2013-08-05 18:57:03','2013-08-05 22:57:03','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\r\n\r\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\r\n\r\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been a solid platform for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-4','','','2013-08-05 18:57:03','2013-08-05 22:57:03','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8391,16,'2013-08-05 19:19:21','2013-08-05 23:19:21','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\n\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\n\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\n\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\n\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\n\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been solid  for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly 1 time (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. It is a game changer from design and setup to failover and management.</p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-5','','','2013-08-05 19:19:21','2013-08-05 23:19:21','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8392,16,'2013-08-05 19:20:08','2013-08-05 23:20:08','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\r\n\r\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for 2 great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; Failover Clustering and Database Mirroring. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. 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Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. 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It is a game changer from design and setup to failover and management. Give it a try or reach out to us for a demonstration and more information on how we can assist in deploying, configuring, or maintaining your SQL Server environment.</p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-6','','','2013-08-05 19:20:08','2013-08-05 23:20:08','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8393,0,'2013-08-06 09:54:57','0000-00-00 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For the purposes of this post, I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\n\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup, one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\n\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\n\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\n\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been solid  for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly ONCE (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. 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For the purposes of this post, I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup, one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\r\n\r\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. 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There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly ONCE (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. 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For the purposes of this post, I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\n\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\n\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup, one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\n\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\n\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\n\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been solid  for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly ONCE (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. It is a game changer from design and setup to failover and management. Give it a try or reach out to us for a demonstration and more information on how we can assist in deploying, configuring, or maintaining your SQL Server environment.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or, drop a question below and I\'ll be sure to answer!</p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-autosave','','','2013-08-06 12:02:31','2013-08-06 16:02:31','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8430,35,'2013-08-07 11:01:30','2013-08-07 15:01:30','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent Combine for a Powerful Cloud','','publish','open','open','','technology-and-talent-combine-for-a-powerful-cloud','','','2013-08-07 11:01:30','2013-08-07 15:01:30','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8430',0,'post','',0),(8431,40,'2013-08-07 10:39:18','2013-08-07 14:39:18','','Cloud House','','inherit','open','open','','cover_107885k','','','2013-08-07 10:39:18','2013-08-07 14:39:18','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8432,40,'2013-08-07 10:40:26','2013-08-07 14:40:26','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTechnology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service offering.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution and in reality you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server. I was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear. <b>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone.</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify how ready your applications are to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed:\n\n&nbsp;\n\nRemote workforce enablement\n\nLeveraging our Citrix, Sharepoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDR to the eCloud\n\nThrough our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHybrid cloud solutions\n\nA growing business is a great state to be in, but as IT needs grow it can be harder to find datacenter grade space to host servers in. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.\n\n<i> </i>\n\nWho runs the eCloud?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nProven eGroup Professional Services\n\nThe eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSupport for your critical applications\n\nYou absolutely <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAs you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision','','','2013-08-07 10:40:26','2013-08-07 14:40:26','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8433,40,'2013-08-07 10:52:38','2013-08-07 14:52:38','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\n\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\n\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\n\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\n\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\n\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\n\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\n</ul>\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\n\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\n\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-2','','','2013-08-07 10:52:38','2013-08-07 14:52:38','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8434,40,'2013-08-07 10:53:46','2013-08-07 14:53:46','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\n\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\n\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\n\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\n\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\n\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\n\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\n</ul>\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\n\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\n\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-3','','','2013-08-07 10:53:46','2013-08-07 14:53:46','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8435,40,'2013-08-07 10:56:33','2013-08-07 14:56:33','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-4','','','2013-08-07 10:56:33','2013-08-07 14:56:33','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8436,40,'2013-08-07 10:57:00','2013-08-07 14:57:00','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignleft\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>Say you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-5','','','2013-08-07 10:57:00','2013-08-07 14:57:00','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8437,40,'2013-08-07 10:57:07','2013-08-07 14:57:07','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignleft\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>Say you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-6','','','2013-08-07 10:57:07','2013-08-07 14:57:07','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8438,40,'2013-08-07 10:58:33','2013-08-07 14:58:33','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\n\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\n\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\n\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\n\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\n\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\n\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\n</ul>\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\n\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\n\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\n\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-7','','','2013-08-07 10:58:33','2013-08-07 14:58:33','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8439,40,'2013-08-07 10:59:23','2013-08-07 14:59:23','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-8','','','2013-08-07 10:59:23','2013-08-07 14:59:23','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8440,40,'2013-08-07 10:59:36','2013-08-07 14:59:36','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-9','','','2013-08-07 10:59:36','2013-08-07 14:59:36','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8441,40,'2013-08-07 11:00:20','2013-08-07 15:00:20','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-10','','','2013-08-07 11:00:20','2013-08-07 15:00:20','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8442,40,'2013-08-07 11:00:26','2013-08-07 15:00:26','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-11','','','2013-08-07 11:00:26','2013-08-07 15:00:26','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8443,40,'2013-08-07 11:00:55','2013-08-07 15:00:55','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-12','','','2013-08-07 11:00:55','2013-08-07 15:00:55','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8444,40,'2013-08-07 11:01:03','2013-08-07 15:01:03','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent Combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-13','','','2013-08-07 11:01:03','2013-08-07 15:01:03','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8445,40,'2013-08-07 11:01:08','2013-08-07 15:01:08','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8431 alignnone\" alt=\"cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cover_107885k-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSay you wanted to buy a house from me. We agree on a price and a delivery date. That day, I show up to your empty lot with a load of lumber, several buckets of paint, and everything else you need to build an entire house. I give you a pep talk and a slap on the back and leave you to build your own house. You would probably not be a huge fan of my residence-as-a-service (RaaS) offering.\r\n\r\nMany cloud service providers behave in a similar fashion when you were expecting a ready-to-go agile cloud hosting solution. In reality, you find yourself staring at a customer portal wondering how much memory to give to your first virtual server.\r\n\r\nI was reading <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-final-cut/240155886/a-cloud-services-culture-war-dimension-data-vs-aws.htm\">this article</a> by Steve Burke and it reinforced to me that the same criteria the City of New York used to select a cloud services provider after Hurricane Sandy hit should be used by all cloud customers even when the skies are clear.\r\n\r\n<strong>Technology + Talent trumps Technology alone</strong>.\r\n\r\nAt eGroup, we believe cloud hosting is supposed to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for you</span>, not give you something else <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do</span>. We can work with you to identify applications which are ready to run in the cloud and help you architect robust and resilient application architectures. We can architect cloud-based solutions that enable your business to run faster and more efficiently with greater peace of mind than traditional datacenter hosting.\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of the flexible solutions we’ve designed solving customer pain points:\r\n\r\n<strong>Remote workforce enablement</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Leveraging our Citrix, SharePoint, and end-user computing expertise, we’ve designed solutions that let businesses (both large and small) bring a global workforce together for real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. Remote workers are empowered to connect with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>DR to the eCloud</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Through our partnership with Veeam, a virtual “DR site” just got a lot more affordable. Offering VM replication at a schedule that fits around your needs, we can offer customers the ability to recover in minutes from total site failure and recover their critical applications in the eCloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Hybrid cloud solutions</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If your business is rapidly growing - congratulations! Unfortunately, IT needs to grow along too which can present challenges in finding datacenter grade space in which to host servers. We’ve engineered hybrid clouds for customers to allow new servers and workloads to run in the eCloud transparently to end-users while taking advantage of fully redundant power, cooling, and network connections for critical applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy now you\'re probably asking, who runs the eCloud? Well, our proven Professional Services team, that\'s who! The eCloud is managed by the same award-winning eGroup professional services team that has been supporting customers across the southeast since 1999. Experienced in all IT disciplines from server virtualization to business intelligence solutions and big data, eCloud hosted servers come with access to knowledgeable engineers who can architect, deliver, and support the solutions you need.\r\n\r\nAnd, yes, we can absolutely support your critical applications. Sure, you <i>can</i> run your mission-critical applications in any cloud provider you choose, but be sure you know where the demarcation lies for support. Does your Infrastructure-as-a-service provider support your Exchange installation or your critical SQL databases? One of the traditional benefits of partnering with a traditional services provider has always been access to a fast track when you need vendor support and the eCloud is no different. Our partnerships with numerous vendors get our customers the answers they need in a timely fashion.\r\n\r\nSo, as you consider the cloud offerings available today, remember to ask yourself, “Does this solution look more like a house, or more like a pile of lumber?”\r\n\r\n<em>(photo courtesy of The Sunday Times)</em>','Technology and Talent Combine for a Powerful Cloud','','inherit','open','open','','8430-revision-14','','','2013-08-07 11:01:08','2013-08-07 15:01:08','',8430,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8430-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(8446,48,'2013-08-08 09:54:08','2013-08-08 13:54:08','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n\r\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','publish','open','open','','setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v','','','2013-08-08 09:58:14','2013-08-08 13:58:14','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8446',0,'post','',0),(8447,40,'2013-08-08 09:22:16','2013-08-08 13:22:16','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V\n\nOver the past couple of years I have noticed that people are unsure as to how to setup networks on the failover cluster of a hyper-V environment. It is important to implement a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and be scalable for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VM’s.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\nHyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment.\n\nWhat I do when setting up these different networks is:\n\nOn each host configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\n\nOn each host configure the virtual networks\n\nOn the switch I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan)\n\n• These vlans include:\n\no VM traffic – connected to the server vlan\n\no Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\n\no Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\n\no Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\n\no Management - network used to manage the hosts\n\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\nConfiguring the Live Migration Network\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n\n• Setting the Live Migration Network\n\n• Open the Failover cluster manager\n\n• Right-click networks\n\n• Select Live Migration settings\n\n• Check the box next to the Live Migration network\n\nSetting Network Metrics\n\n• Open PowerShell\n\n• Type the following commands\n\n• Import-module failoverclusters\n\n• Get-cluster network - (shows networks)\n\n• Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)\n\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\nFuture blogs\n\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\n\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision','','','2013-08-08 09:22:16','2013-08-08 13:22:16','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8448,40,'2013-08-08 09:36:32','2013-08-08 13:36:32','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V\n\nOver the past couple of years I have noticed that people are unsure as to how to setup networks on the failover cluster of a hyper-V environment. It is important to implement a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and be scalable for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VM’s.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\nHyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment.\n\nWhat I do when setting up these different networks is:\n\nOn each host configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\n\nOn each host configure the virtual networks\n\nOn the switch I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan)\n\n• These vlans include:\n\no VM traffic – connected to the server vlan\n\no Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\n\no Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\n\no Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\n\no Management - network used to manage the hosts\n\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\nConfiguring the Live Migration Network\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n\n• Setting the Live Migration Network\n\n• Open the Failover cluster manager\n\n• Right-click networks\n\n• Select Live Migration settings\n\n• Check the box next to the Live Migration network\n\nSetting Network Metrics\n\n• Open PowerShell\n\n• Type the following commands\n\n• Import-module failoverclusters\n\n• Get-cluster network - (shows networks)\n\n• Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)\n\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\nFuture blogs\n\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\n\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-2','','','2013-08-08 09:36:32','2013-08-08 13:36:32','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8449,40,'2013-08-08 09:37:39','2013-08-08 13:37:39','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. It is important to implement a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and be scalable for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VM’s.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\nHyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment.\r\n\r\nWhat I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\n\r\nOn each host configure the virtual networks\r\n\r\nOn the switch I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan)\r\n\r\n• These vlans include:\r\n\r\no VM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\n\r\no Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\n\r\no Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\n\r\no Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\n\r\no Management - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\nConfiguring the Live Migration Network\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n\r\n• Setting the Live Migration Network\r\n\r\n• Open the Failover cluster manager\r\n\r\n• Right-click networks\r\n\r\n• Select Live Migration settings\r\n\r\n• Check the box next to the Live Migration network\r\n\r\nSetting Network Metrics\r\n\r\n• Open PowerShell\r\n\r\n• Type the following commands\r\n\r\n• Import-module failoverclusters\r\n\r\n• Get-cluster network - (shows networks)\r\n\r\n• Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)\r\n\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\nFuture blogs\r\n\r\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\r\n\r\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-3','','','2013-08-08 09:37:39','2013-08-08 13:37:39','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8450,40,'2013-08-08 09:39:40','2013-08-08 13:39:40','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. It is important to implement a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\n<ol>\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\n	<li>On each host configure the virtual networks</li>\n	<li>On the switch I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\n</ul>\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\nConfiguring the Live Migration Network\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n\n• Setting the Live Migration Network\n\n• Open the Failover cluster manager\n\n• Right-click networks\n\n• Select Live Migration settings\n\n• Check the box next to the Live Migration network\n\nSetting Network Metrics\n\n• Open PowerShell\n\n• Type the following commands\n\n• Import-module failoverclusters\n\n• Get-cluster network - (shows networks)\n\n• Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)\n\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\nFuture blogs\n\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\n\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-4','','','2013-08-08 09:39:40','2013-08-08 13:39:40','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8451,40,'2013-08-08 09:40:49','2013-08-08 13:40:49','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. It is important to implement a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\n<ol>\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\n</ol>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n\nSetting the Live Migration Network\n\nOpen the Failover cluster manager\n\nRight-click networks\n\nSelect Live Migration settings\n\nCheck the box next to the Live Migration network\n\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\n\n• Open PowerShell\n\n• Type the following commands\n\n• Import-module failoverclusters\n\n• Get-cluster network - (shows networks)\n\n• Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)\n\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\nFuture blogs\n\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\n\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-5','','','2013-08-08 09:40:49','2013-08-08 13:40:49','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8452,40,'2013-08-08 09:41:19','2013-08-08 13:41:19','','Hyper-V 1','','inherit','open','open','','hyper-v-1','','','2013-08-08 09:41:19','2013-08-08 13:41:19','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8453,40,'2013-08-08 09:41:20','2013-08-08 13:41:20','','Hyper-V 2','','inherit','open','open','','hyper-v-2','','','2013-08-08 09:41:20','2013-08-08 13:41:20','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8454,40,'2013-08-08 09:41:22','2013-08-08 13:41:22','','Hyper-V 3','','inherit','open','open','','hyper-v-3','','','2013-08-08 09:41:22','2013-08-08 13:41:22','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8455,40,'2013-08-08 09:44:59','2013-08-08 13:44:59','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\n<ol>\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\n</ol>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n<ul>\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\n</ul>\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\n\nI plan to h\n\nNetwork Teaming in Hyper-V\n\nConverged Network Cards, and carving them out','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-6','','','2013-08-08 09:44:59','2013-08-08 13:44:59','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8463,40,'2013-08-08 09:52:04','2013-08-08 13:52:04','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n\r\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-14','','','2013-08-08 09:52:04','2013-08-08 13:52:04','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(8456,40,'2013-08-08 09:46:56','2013-08-08 13:46:56','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\n<ol>\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\n</ol>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n<ul>\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\n</ul>\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\n\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-7','','','2013-08-08 09:46:56','2013-08-08 13:46:56','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8461,40,'2013-08-08 09:49:40','2013-08-08 13:49:40','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-12','','','2013-08-08 09:49:40','2013-08-08 13:49:40','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8457,40,'2013-08-08 09:47:20','2013-08-08 13:47:20','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\r\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\r\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\r\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\r\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-8','','','2013-08-08 09:47:20','2013-08-08 13:47:20','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8458,40,'2013-08-08 09:48:19','2013-08-08 13:48:19','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\r\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\r\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\r\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\r\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-9','','','2013-08-08 09:48:19','2013-08-08 13:48:19','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8459,40,'2013-08-08 09:48:42','2013-08-08 13:48:42','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\r\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\r\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\r\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\r\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-10','','','2013-08-08 09:48:42','2013-08-08 13:48:42','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8460,40,'2013-08-08 09:49:09','2013-08-08 13:49:09','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards</li>\r\n	<li>On each host, configure the virtual networks</li>\r\n	<li>On the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>VM traffic – connected to the server vlan</li>\r\n	<li>Heartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes</li>\r\n	<li>Storage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.</li>\r\n	<li>Live Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</li>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-11','','','2013-08-08 09:49:09','2013-08-08 13:49:09','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8462,40,'2013-08-08 09:49:47','2013-08-08 13:49:47','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Management - network used to manage the hosts</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-13','','','2013-08-08 09:49:47','2013-08-08 13:49:47','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8464,40,'2013-08-08 09:52:12','2013-08-08 13:52:12','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n\r\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-15','','','2013-08-08 09:52:12','2013-08-08 13:52:12','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(8465,40,'2013-08-08 09:53:26','2013-08-08 13:53:26','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n\r\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-16','','','2013-08-08 09:53:26','2013-08-08 13:53:26','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(8466,40,'2013-08-08 09:54:08','2013-08-08 13:54:08','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\r\n\r\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\r\n\r\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\r\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\r\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\r\n\r\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\r\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\r\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\r\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\r\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\r\n\r\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\r\n\r\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\r\n\r\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\r\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\r\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\r\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\r\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\r\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExample of auto metric settings:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-revision-17','','','2013-08-08 09:54:08','2013-08-08 13:54:08','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(8467,40,'2013-08-08 09:59:20','2013-08-08 13:59:20','Over the past couple of years, I\'ve noticed a growing trend - confusion around setting up networks on the failover cluster of a Hyper-V environment. My most important word of advice is to create a design that will balance traffic usage, set metrics, and ensure scalability for the future. Determining how this traffic flows is highly important, and should be a high priority in planning whether to have this traffic run through individually assigned NIC’s, vNIC’s, or carved converged network cards.\n\nWhen we talk about balancing traffic usage, we are talking about creating multiple networks, so that all traffic is not running over the same network. From what I have seen in Hyper-V environments they are not aware of actually setting up multiple networks on the failover cluster side of Hyper-V. The concern seems to be only setting up the virtual networks on the hosts themselves. It is important to make sure our virtual networks are set up properly, but what about things like live migration, or cluster heartbeat. The last thing we want is all cluster traffic communicating over the same networks as our VMs.\n\nMicrosoft best practices on this, is to setup networks for the Heartbeat, data storage, management, and Live Migration. If you are using iScsi then you will also need a network for that (Osborne, 2013).\n\n<strong>Hyper-V Failover Clustering Network Design</strong>\n\nThere are a few ways to design this, and will differ based on the size of an environment. What I do when setting up these different networks is:\n\nOn each host, configure the IP’s on the network interface cards\nOn each host, configure the virtual networks\nOn the switch, I configure vlans to handle the different networks (you can also tag the vlan). These vlans include:\n\nVM traffic – connected to the server vlan\nHeartbeat (CSV) – network used for communication between hosts, and cluster shared volumes\nStorage (if iSCSi) – network used for iSCSI storage. Do not allow cluster communication on this network.\nLive Migration – network used to Live Migrate VM’s to other hosts\nManagement - network used to manage the hosts\n\n*VMtraffic will not show up in the failover cluster manager because it is not set to be managed in the virtual network settings of the host.\n\n<strong>Configuring the Live Migration Network</strong>\n\nOnce the networks are setup, and the host nodes are added to the failover cluster, you will have to set what network you want to use for live migration, and then set the metrics using PowerShell.\n<ul>\n	<li>Setting the Live Migration Network</li>\n	<li>Open the Failover cluster manager</li>\n	<li>Right-click networks</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8452\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-1-300x263.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Select Live Migration settings</li>\n	<li>Check the box next to the Live Migration network</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8453\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-2-267x300.png\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<strong>Setting Network Metrics</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Open PowerShell</li>\n	<li>Type the following commands</li>\n	<li>Import-module failoverclusters</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network - (shows networks)</li>\n	<li>Get-cluster network “exampleLiveMigration”).Metric=”value”(900)</li>\n</ul>\nExample of auto metric settings:\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8454\" alt=\"Hyper-V\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Hyper-V-3-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" /></a>\n\nI hope this helps. I will explore Network Teaming in Hyper-V and carving out Converged Network Cards in future posts.','Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V','','inherit','open','open','','8446-autosave','','','2013-08-08 09:59:20','2013-08-08 13:59:20','',8446,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8446-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8469,2,'2013-07-02 10:07:31','2013-07-02 14:07:31','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Inside-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Technical-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. 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These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Senior-Systems-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Applications Services Engineer</strong>:</span> The role of the Senior Application Services Engineer is to lead in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs. You will be customer facing, able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SeniorApplicationServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on deployment and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer4.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span>  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Data Services Engineer is to lead in the design and implementation of eGroup’s ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DataServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior Data Services Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. </span> <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorDataServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the End User Applications Engineer is to design and implement end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EndUserAppsEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior End User Applications Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorEndUserAppsEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Operations Project Manager:</strong></span> An excellent opportunity for the motivated and organized Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team member, you\'ll be a part of eGroup’s award-winning, highly-capable, and continually growing professional services delivery team. Your position primarily focuses on: technically managing projects, providing leadership during professional services delivery engagements, people-resource scheduling, process development and implementation, and consistent levels of interactive customer-facing communication. You should be highly proficient in both verbal and written communication, as well as highly organized with a ‘sixth sense’ of how to handle competing priorities. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tech-Opps-PM-Job-Description1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist:</span> </strong></strong>eGroup is looking for a Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist to join our team and help build eGroup’s brand awareness using the latest digital tactics. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marketing_Corp-Comms-Specialist_Job-Description-July-2013.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\" language=\"JavaScript\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">// <![CDATA[\r\nfrt(96248);\r\n// ]]></script>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2013-07-02 10:07:31','2013-07-02 14:07:31','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/4668-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8470,2,'2013-08-08 16:04:26','2013-08-08 20:04:26','','eGroup Microsoft Solutions Consultant','','inherit','open','open','','egroup-microsoft-solutions-consultant','','','2013-08-08 16:04:26','2013-08-08 20:04:26','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Microsoft-Solutions-Consultant.pdf',0,'attachment','application/pdf',0),(8472,2,'2013-08-08 16:06:05','2013-08-08 20:06:05','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Inside-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Technical-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ApplicationServicesEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Customer Support Engineer</strong></span>: The Customer Support Engineer role provides an ideal opportunity for those getting into the fast paced, solution driven Information Technology industry. Our talented team and proven processes have transformed countless individuals from Customer Support Engineers, to total technology rock stars.  Our most successful Customer Support Engineer’s are great communicators, have a natural ability to sense and adapt to changing customer situations, and are very driven individuals. They have a passion for technology and love to jump right in to learn the latest and greatest technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Customer-Support-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Systems Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Senior-Systems-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Applications Services Engineer</strong>:</span> The role of the Senior Application Services Engineer is to lead in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs. You will be customer facing, able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SeniorApplicationServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on deployment and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer4.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span>  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Data Services Engineer is to lead in the design and implementation of eGroup’s ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DataServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior Data Services Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. </span> <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorDataServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the End User Applications Engineer is to design and implement end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EndUserAppsEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior End User Applications Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorEndUserAppsEngineer2.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Operations Project Manager:</strong></span> An excellent opportunity for the motivated and organized Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team member, you\'ll be a part of eGroup’s award-winning, highly-capable, and continually growing professional services delivery team. Your position primarily focuses on: technically managing projects, providing leadership during professional services delivery engagements, people-resource scheduling, process development and implementation, and consistent levels of interactive customer-facing communication. You should be highly proficient in both verbal and written communication, as well as highly organized with a ‘sixth sense’ of how to handle competing priorities. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tech-Opps-PM-Job-Description1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist:</span> </strong></strong>eGroup is looking for a Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist to join our team and help build eGroup’s brand awareness using the latest digital tactics. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marketing_Corp-Comms-Specialist_Job-Description-July-2013.pdf\">More</a><b></b></li>\r\n	<li><b>eGroup </b><b>Microsoft Solutions Consultant: </b>eGroup is looking for a seasoned and experienced Microsoft Solutions Consultant to join our team and help eGroup extend our delivery of solutions throughout the Southeast.  You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Microsoft-Solutions-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"mce-text/javascript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\" language=\"JavaScript\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"mce-text/javascript\">// <![CDATA[\r\nfrt(96248);\r\n// ]]></script>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2013-08-08 16:06:05','2013-08-08 20:06:05','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/4668-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8471,2,'2013-08-08 16:05:13','2013-08-08 20:05:13','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Inside-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Technical-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ApplicationServicesEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Customer Support Engineer</strong></span>: The Customer Support Engineer role provides an ideal opportunity for those getting into the fast paced, solution driven Information Technology industry. Our talented team and proven processes have transformed countless individuals from Customer Support Engineers, to total technology rock stars.  Our most successful Customer Support Engineer’s are great communicators, have a natural ability to sense and adapt to changing customer situations, and are very driven individuals. They have a passion for technology and love to jump right in to learn the latest and greatest technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Customer-Support-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Systems Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Senior-Systems-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Applications Services Engineer</strong>:</span> The role of the Senior Application Services Engineer is to lead in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs. You will be customer facing, able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SeniorApplicationServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on deployment and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer4.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span>  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Data Services Engineer is to lead in the design and implementation of eGroup’s ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DataServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior Data Services Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. </span> <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorDataServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the End User Applications Engineer is to design and implement end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EndUserAppsEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior End User Applications Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorEndUserAppsEngineer2.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Operations Project Manager:</strong></span> An excellent opportunity for the motivated and organized Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team member, you\'ll be a part of eGroup’s award-winning, highly-capable, and continually growing professional services delivery team. Your position primarily focuses on: technically managing projects, providing leadership during professional services delivery engagements, people-resource scheduling, process development and implementation, and consistent levels of interactive customer-facing communication. You should be highly proficient in both verbal and written communication, as well as highly organized with a ‘sixth sense’ of how to handle competing priorities. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tech-Opps-PM-Job-Description1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist:</span> </strong></strong>eGroup is looking for a Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist to join our team and help build eGroup’s brand awareness using the latest digital tactics. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marketing_Corp-Comms-Specialist_Job-Description-July-2013.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><strong>Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist: </strong></strong></span>eGroup is looking for a seasoned and experienced Microsoft Solutions Consultant to join our team and help eGroup extend our delivery of solutions throughout the Southeast.  You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Microsoft-Solutions-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\" language=\"JavaScript\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">// <![CDATA[\r\nfrt(96248);\r\n// ]]></script>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2013-08-08 16:05:13','2013-08-08 20:05:13','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/4668-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8473,2,'2013-08-08 16:06:27','2013-08-08 20:06:27','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Inside-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Technical-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ApplicationServicesEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Customer Support Engineer</strong></span>: The Customer Support Engineer role provides an ideal opportunity for those getting into the fast paced, solution driven Information Technology industry. Our talented team and proven processes have transformed countless individuals from Customer Support Engineers, to total technology rock stars.  Our most successful Customer Support Engineer’s are great communicators, have a natural ability to sense and adapt to changing customer situations, and are very driven individuals. They have a passion for technology and love to jump right in to learn the latest and greatest technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Customer-Support-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Systems Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Senior-Systems-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Applications Services Engineer</strong>:</span> The role of the Senior Application Services Engineer is to lead in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs. You will be customer facing, able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SeniorApplicationServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on deployment and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer4.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span>  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Data Services Engineer is to lead in the design and implementation of eGroup’s ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DataServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior Data Services Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. </span> <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorDataServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the End User Applications Engineer is to design and implement end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EndUserAppsEngineer1.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior End User Applications Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorEndUserAppsEngineer2.pdf\">More</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Operations Project Manager:</strong></span> An excellent opportunity for the motivated and organized Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team member, you\'ll be a part of eGroup’s award-winning, highly-capable, and continually growing professional services delivery team. Your position primarily focuses on: technically managing projects, providing leadership during professional services delivery engagements, people-resource scheduling, process development and implementation, and consistent levels of interactive customer-facing communication. You should be highly proficient in both verbal and written communication, as well as highly organized with a ‘sixth sense’ of how to handle competing priorities. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tech-Opps-PM-Job-Description1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist:</span> </strong></strong>eGroup is looking for a Marketing and Corporate Communications Specialist to join our team and help build eGroup’s brand awareness using the latest digital tactics. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marketing_Corp-Comms-Specialist_Job-Description-July-2013.pdf\">More</a><b></b></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eGroup Microsoft Solutions Consultant: </span></strong>eGroup is looking for a seasoned and experienced Microsoft Solutions Consultant to join our team and help eGroup extend our delivery of solutions throughout the Southeast.  You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Microsoft-Solutions-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"mce-mce-text/javascript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\" language=\"JavaScript\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"mce-mce-text/javascript\">// <![CDATA[\r\nfrt(96248);\r\n// ]]></script>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2013-08-08 16:06:27','2013-08-08 20:06:27','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/4668-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8488,40,'2013-08-09 12:11:19','2013-08-09 16:11:19','A colleague of mine recently shared a thought provoking McKinsey &amp; Company article, \"<a href=\"http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology\" target=\"_blank\">The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology.</a>\"\r\n\r\nGiven the growing disruption caused by new computing platforms delivering massive amounts of actionable data, Paul Willmott, a Director in McKinsey\'s London office, offered nine questions every board member should raise when discussing technology strategy with IT and business leadership. As one would imagine, the questions revolve around technology\'s impact on the customer experience, ability to improve the company\'s competitive advantage, agility, and identifying if the company has the capabilities and staff to deliver value from the IT investment.\r\n\r\nAs a B2B technology marketer for the past 15 years working with vendors and users on communicating messages and stories, it was the very last question Willmott raised which struck a chord: <b>\"Are we making the most of our technology story?\"</b>\r\n\r\nWhy would simple storytelling be top-of-mind with the Board? Well, aside from the evolutionary fact that our brains are wired for storytelling, here are five other reasons why the Board is taking notice:\r\n\r\n1.  Telling a story and sharing best-practice insight around how you rolled out an employee-friendly BYOD program or implemented an innovative data analytics project, which ultimately improved the customer experience, is powerful. People want to work for and do business with innovative companies. And if you\'re not sharing those stories how will those prospective employees and customers know all the good you\'re doing from a technology perspective?\r\n\r\n2.  We live in a \"Share / Like / Re-Post\" world. Yes, even business executives and board members are here too. Though you may be telling your technology story behind closed doors or in a briefing to prospects, how are the masses to know unless you make it open and available in many different formats (i.e. digital, print, visual, etc)?\r\n\r\n3.  A company telling a story - even one confined to technology - helps differentiate it from the competition, and shows confidence and uniqueness in the market. Most importantly, it creates yet another opportunity to further the company\'s mission and values through an interesting medium that people will read/view/hear.\r\n\r\n4.  People buy from people. Highlighting the individual players involved in the company\'s technology story makes the company more transparent, human and approachable. Much more positive characteristics than the alternative, wouldn\'t you say?\r\n\r\n5.  And if you don\'t believe me, recent research from <a href=\"http://www.cocollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">co:collective</a> shows that companies that advance their narrative through action and emphasize the creation of compelling and useful experiences are much more successful in terms of revenue and share price than those who choose to remain silent. End of story.\r\n\r\nIt\'s time the BOD, Technology, Sales, and Marketing Leadership all sit down to chart their storytelling strategy before it\'s too late. Our brains become more active when we hear or tell stories - which will no doubt activate your employees, customers, prospects and partners - for the greater good of the business.','Attention IT & Business Leadership: Are YOU Telling a Story?','','publish','open','open','','attention-it-business-leadership-are-you-telling-a-story','','','2013-08-09 12:11:19','2013-08-09 16:11:19','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8488',0,'post','',0),(8489,40,'2013-08-09 12:06:50','2013-08-09 16:06:50','A colleague of mine recently shared a thought provoking McKinsey &amp; Company article, \"<a href=\"http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology\" target=\"_blank\">The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology.</a>\"\r\n\r\nGiven the growing disruption caused by new computing platforms delivering massive amounts of actionable data, Paul Willmott, a Director in McKinsey\'s London office, offered nine questions every board member should raise when discussing technology strategy with IT and business leadership. As one would imagine, the questions revolve around technology\'s impact on the customer experience, ability to improve the company\'s competitive advantage, agility, and identifying if the company has the capabilities and staff to deliver value from the IT investment.\r\n\r\nAs a B2B technology marketer for the past 15 years working with vendors and users on communicating messages and stories, it was the very last question Willmott raised which struck a chord: <b>\"Are we making the most of our technology story?\"</b>\r\n\r\nWhy would simple storytelling be top-of-mind with the Board? Well, aside from the evolutionary fact that our brains are wired for storytelling, here are five other reasons why the Board is taking notice:\r\n\r\nTelling a story and sharing best-practice insight around how you rolled out an employee-friendly BYOD program or implemented an innovative data analytics project, which ultimately improved the customer experience, is powerful. People want to work for and do business with innovative companies. And if you\'re not sharing those stories how will those prospective employees and customers know all the good you\'re doing from a technology perspective?\r\n\r\nWe live in a \"Share / Like / Re-Post\" world. Yes, even business executives and board members are here too. Though you may be telling your technology story behind closed doors or in a briefing to prospects, how are the masses to know unless you make it open and available in many different formats (i.e. digital, print, visual, etc)?\r\n\r\nA company telling a story - even one confined to technology - helps differentiate it from the competition, and shows confidence and uniqueness in the market. Most importantly, it creates yet another opportunity to further the company\'s mission and values through an interesting medium that people will read/view/hear.\r\n\r\nPeople buy from people. Highlighting the individual players involved in the company\'s technology story makes the company more transparent, human and approachable. Much more positive characteristics than the alternative, wouldn\'t you say?\r\n\r\nAnd if you don\'t believe me, recent research from <a href=\"http://www.cocollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">co:collective</a> shows that companies that advance their narrative through action and emphasize the creation of compelling and useful experiences are much more successful in terms of revenue and share price than those who choose to remain silent. End of story.\r\n\r\nIt\'s time the BOD, Technology, Sales, and Marketing Leadership all sit down to chart their storytelling strategy before it\'s too late. Our brains become more active when we hear or tell stories - which will no doubt activate your employees, customers, prospects and partners - for the greater good of the business.','Attention IT & Business Leadership: Are YOU Telling a Story?','','inherit','open','open','','8488-revision-v1','','','2013-08-09 12:06:50','2013-08-09 16:06:50','',8488,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8488-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8491,40,'2013-08-09 12:07:53','2013-08-09 16:07:53','A colleague of mine recently shared a thought provoking McKinsey &amp; Company article, \"<a href=\"http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology\" target=\"_blank\">The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology.</a>\"\r\n\r\nGiven the growing disruption caused by new computing platforms delivering massive amounts of actionable data, Paul Willmott, a Director in McKinsey\'s London office, offered nine questions every board member should raise when discussing technology strategy with IT and business leadership. As one would imagine, the questions revolve around technology\'s impact on the customer experience, ability to improve the company\'s competitive advantage, agility, and identifying if the company has the capabilities and staff to deliver value from the IT investment.\r\n\r\nAs a B2B technology marketer for the past 15 years working with vendors and users on communicating messages and stories, it was the very last question Willmott raised which struck a chord: <b>\"Are we making the most of our technology story?\"</b>\r\n\r\nWhy would simple storytelling be top-of-mind with the Board? Well, aside from the evolutionary fact that our brains are wired for storytelling, here are five other reasons why the Board is taking notice:\r\n\r\n1.  Telling a story and sharing best-practice insight around how you rolled out an employee-friendly BYOD program or implemented an innovative data analytics project, which ultimately improved the customer experience, is powerful. People want to work for and do business with innovative companies. And if you\'re not sharing those stories how will those prospective employees and customers know all the good you\'re doing from a technology perspective?\r\n2.  We live in a \"Share / Like / Re-Post\" world. Yes, even business executives and board members are here too. Though you may be telling your technology story behind closed doors or in a briefing to prospects, how are the masses to know unless you make it open and available in many different formats (i.e. digital, print, visual, etc)?\r\nA company telling a story - even one confined to technology - helps differentiate it from the competition, and shows confidence and uniqueness in the market. Most importantly, it creates yet another opportunity to further the company\'s mission and values through an interesting medium that people will read/view/hear.\r\nPeople buy from people. Highlighting the individual players involved in the company\'s technology story makes the company more transparent, human and approachable. Much more positive characteristics than the alternative, wouldn\'t you say?\r\nAnd if you don\'t believe me, recent research from <a href=\"http://www.cocollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">co:collective</a> shows that companies that advance their narrative through action and emphasize the creation of compelling and useful experiences are much more successful in terms of revenue and share price than those who choose to remain silent. End of story.\r\n\r\nIt\'s time the BOD, Technology, Sales, and Marketing Leadership all sit down to chart their storytelling strategy before it\'s too late. Our brains become more active when we hear or tell stories - which will no doubt activate your employees, customers, prospects and partners - for the greater good of the business.','Attention IT & Business Leadership: Are YOU Telling a Story?','','inherit','open','open','','8488-revision-v1','','','2013-08-09 12:07:53','2013-08-09 16:07:53','',8488,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8488-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8490,40,'2013-08-09 12:07:14','2013-08-09 16:07:14','A colleague of mine recently shared a thought provoking McKinsey &amp; Company article, \"<a href=\"http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology\" target=\"_blank\">The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology.</a>\"\r\n\r\nGiven the growing disruption caused by new computing platforms delivering massive amounts of actionable data, Paul Willmott, a Director in McKinsey\'s London office, offered nine questions every board member should raise when discussing technology strategy with IT and business leadership. As one would imagine, the questions revolve around technology\'s impact on the customer experience, ability to improve the company\'s competitive advantage, agility, and identifying if the company has the capabilities and staff to deliver value from the IT investment.\r\n\r\nAs a B2B technology marketer for the past 15 years working with vendors and users on communicating messages and stories, it was the very last question Willmott raised which struck a chord: <b>\"Are we making the most of our technology story?\"</b>\r\n\r\nWhy would simple storytelling be top-of-mind with the Board? Well, aside from the evolutionary fact that our brains are wired for storytelling, here are five other reasons why the Board is taking notice:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Telling a story and sharing best-practice insight around how you rolled out an employee-friendly BYOD program or implemented an innovative data analytics project, which ultimately improved the customer experience, is powerful. People want to work for and do business with innovative companies. And if you\'re not sharing those stories how will those prospective employees and customers know all the good you\'re doing from a technology perspective?</li>\r\n	<li>We live in a \"Share / Like / Re-Post\" world. Yes, even business executives and board members are here too. Though you may be telling your technology story behind closed doors or in a briefing to prospects, how are the masses to know unless you make it open and available in many different formats (i.e. digital, print, visual, etc)?</li>\r\n	<li>A company telling a story - even one confined to technology - helps differentiate it from the competition, and shows confidence and uniqueness in the market. Most importantly, it creates yet another opportunity to further the company\'s mission and values through an interesting medium that people will read/view/hear.</li>\r\n	<li>People buy from people. Highlighting the individual players involved in the company\'s technology story makes the company more transparent, human and approachable. Much more positive characteristics than the alternative, wouldn\'t you say?</li>\r\n	<li>And if you don\'t believe me, recent research from <a href=\"http://www.cocollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">co:collective</a> shows that companies that advance their narrative through action and emphasize the creation of compelling and useful experiences are much more successful in terms of revenue and share price than those who choose to remain silent. End of story.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nIt\'s time the BOD, Technology, Sales, and Marketing Leadership all sit down to chart their storytelling strategy before it\'s too late. Our brains become more active when we hear or tell stories - which will no doubt activate your employees, customers, prospects and partners - for the greater good of the business.','Attention IT & Business Leadership: Are YOU Telling a Story?','','inherit','open','open','','8488-revision-v1','','','2013-08-09 12:07:14','2013-08-09 16:07:14','',8488,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8488-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8492,40,'2013-08-09 12:08:52','2013-08-09 16:08:52','A colleague of mine recently shared a thought provoking McKinsey &amp; Company article, \"<a href=\"http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/the_do-or-die_questions_boards_should_ask_about_technology\" target=\"_blank\">The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology.</a>\"\r\n\r\nGiven the growing disruption caused by new computing platforms delivering massive amounts of actionable data, Paul Willmott, a Director in McKinsey\'s London office, offered nine questions every board member should raise when discussing technology strategy with IT and business leadership. As one would imagine, the questions revolve around technology\'s impact on the customer experience, ability to improve the company\'s competitive advantage, agility, and identifying if the company has the capabilities and staff to deliver value from the IT investment.\r\n\r\nAs a B2B technology marketer for the past 15 years working with vendors and users on communicating messages and stories, it was the very last question Willmott raised which struck a chord: <b>\"Are we making the most of our technology story?\"</b>\r\n\r\nWhy would simple storytelling be top-of-mind with the Board? Well, aside from the evolutionary fact that our brains are wired for storytelling, here are five other reasons why the Board is taking notice:\r\n\r\n1.  Telling a story and sharing best-practice insight around how you rolled out an employee-friendly BYOD program or implemented an innovative data analytics project, which ultimately improved the customer experience, is powerful. People want to work for and do business with innovative companies. And if you\'re not sharing those stories how will those prospective employees and customers know all the good you\'re doing from a technology perspective?\r\n2.  We live in a \"Share / Like / Re-Post\" world. Yes, even business executives and board members are here too. Though you may be telling your technology story behind closed doors or in a briefing to prospects, how are the masses to know unless you make it open and available in many different formats (i.e. digital, print, visual, etc)?\r\n3.  A company telling a story - even one confined to technology - helps differentiate it from the competition, and shows confidence and uniqueness in the market. Most importantly, it creates yet another opportunity to further the company\'s mission and values through an interesting medium that people will read/view/hear.\r\n\r\n4.  People buy from people. Highlighting the individual players involved in the company\'s technology story makes the company more transparent, human and approachable. Much more positive characteristics than the alternative, wouldn\'t you say?\r\n\r\n5.  And if you don\'t believe me, recent research from <a href=\"http://www.cocollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">co:collective</a> shows that companies that advance their narrative through action and emphasize the creation of compelling and useful experiences are much more successful in terms of revenue and share price than those who choose to remain silent. End of story.\r\n\r\nIt\'s time the BOD, Technology, Sales, and Marketing Leadership all sit down to chart their storytelling strategy before it\'s too late. Our brains become more active when we hear or tell stories - which will no doubt activate your employees, customers, prospects and partners - for the greater good of the business.','Attention IT & Business Leadership: Are YOU Telling a Story?','','inherit','open','open','','8488-revision-v1','','','2013-08-09 12:08:52','2013-08-09 16:08:52','',8488,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8488-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8493,2,'2013-08-12 09:40:05','2013-08-12 13:40:05','','eGroup_Header_RGB','','inherit','open','open','','egroup_header_rgb','','','2013-08-12 09:40:05','2013-08-12 13:40:05','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/eGroup_Header_RGB.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8494,2,'2013-08-12 09:40:46','2013-08-12 13:40:46','','eGroup_Footer_RGB','','inherit','open','open','','egroup_footer_rgb','','','2013-08-12 09:40:46','2013-08-12 13:40:46','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/eGroup_Footer_RGB.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8495,11,'2013-08-12 10:47:24','2013-08-12 14:47:24','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Habitat-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8499\" alt=\"Habitat (2)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Habitat-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOne of the great truths that I have come to learn over the years is that the more you help others achieve their hopes, goals, and dreams, the more you tend to grow toward achieving your own. This can come in many forms and fashions in work and in everyday life.\r\n\r\neGroup is committed to growing team members\' knowledge and skill sets, and to promoting from within. Working with individuals on their goals and helping them pursue and achieve them is my favorite thing about being here. It is amazing to see the growth in people, and how they can step up when they are given some direction, guidance and a little opportunity. Success is infectious. See a co-worker work hard and win and others will naturally follow!\r\n\r\nSeveral times each year, the eGroup team volunteers to work on one of the local houses as part of Habitat for Humanity. The times I have been able to participate in this, I have always taken away so much from the time spent with eGroup team members and others while onsite. Also, seeing the look on the future homeowner’s face is uplifting. To hear that person passionately tell me their journey and how the opportunity to be in this house will change their lives is uplifting! Additionally, they are so grateful for the help and support from their community - all they needed was a chance!\r\n\r\nHelping our customers succeed is what we do every day at eGroup. We strive to make technology enable those businesses to succeed, whether in a manufacturing environment, law firm, or in a non-profit hospital. If technology can allow them to do new and better things, then they can focus on the mission of their business.\r\n\r\nMy challenge to you today is to see how you can help someone else succeed - whether inside the office walls or out. 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This can come in many forms and fashions in work and in everyday life.\r\n\r\neGroup is committed to growing team members\' knowledge and skillsets, and to promoting from within. Working with individuals on their goals and helping them pursue and achieve them is my favorite thing about being here. It is amazing to see the growth in people, and how they can step up when they are given some direction, guidance and a little opportunity. Success is infectious. See a co-worker work hard and win and others will naturally follow!\r\n\r\nSeveral times each year, the eGroup team volunteers to work on one of the local houses as part of Habitat for Humanity. The times I have been able to participate in this, I have always taken away so much from the time spent with eGroup team members and others while onsite. Also, seeing the look on the future homeowner’s face is uplifting. To hear that person passionately tell me their journey and how the opportunity to be in this house will change their lives is uplifting! Additionally, they are so grateful for the help and support from their community - all they needed was a chance!\r\n\r\nHelping our customers succeed is what we do every day at eGroup. We strive to make technology enable those businesses to succeed, whether in a manufacturing environment, law firm, or in a non-profit hospital. If technology can allow them to do new and better things, then they can focus on the mission of their business.\r\n\r\nMy challenge to you today is to see how you can help someone else succeed. 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See a co-worker work hard and win and others will naturally follow!\r\n\r\nSeveral times each year, the eGroup team volunteers to work on one of the local houses as part of Habitat for Humanity. The times I have been able to participate in this, I have always taken away so much from the time spent with eGroup team members and others while onsite. Also, seeing the look on the future homeowner’s face is uplifting. To hear that person passionately tell me their journey and how the opportunity to be in this house will change their lives is uplifting! Additionally, they are so grateful for the help and support from their community - all they needed was a chance!\r\n\r\nHelping our customers succeed is what we do every day at eGroup. We strive to make technology enable those businesses to succeed, whether in a manufacturing environment, law firm, or in a non-profit hospital. If technology can allow them to do new and better things, then they can focus on the mission of their business.\r\n\r\nMy challenge to you today is to see how you can help someone else succeed - whether inside the office walls or out. 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This can come in many forms and fashions in work and in everyday life.\r\n\r\neGroup is committed to growing team members\' knowledge and skill sets, and to promoting from within. Working with individuals on their goals and helping them pursue and achieve them is my favorite thing about being here. It is amazing to see the growth in people, and how they can step up when they are given some direction, guidance and a little opportunity. Success is infectious. See a co-worker work hard and win and others will naturally follow!\r\n\r\nSeveral times each year, the eGroup team volunteers to work on one of the local houses as part of Habitat for Humanity. The times I have been able to participate in this, I have always taken away so much from the time spent with eGroup team members and others while onsite. Also, seeing the look on the future homeowner’s face is uplifting. To hear that person passionately tell me their journey and how the opportunity to be in this house will change their lives is uplifting! Additionally, they are so grateful for the help and support from their community - all they needed was a chance!\r\n\r\nHelping our customers succeed is what we do every day at eGroup. We strive to make technology enable those businesses to succeed, whether in a manufacturing environment, law firm, or in a non-profit hospital. If technology can allow them to do new and better things, then they can focus on the mission of their business.\r\n\r\nMy challenge to you today is to see how you can help someone else succeed - whether inside the office walls or out. How can you help someone today?','How Helping Others Ends Up Helping You','','inherit','open','open','','8495-revision-v1','','','2013-08-12 12:17:27','2013-08-12 16:17:27','',8495,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8495-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8501,47,'2013-08-13 09:10:18','2013-08-13 13:10:18','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8502\" alt=\"Thin client\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBrace yourself for what you\'re about to read.\r\n\r\nWith the recent surge of growth in the VDI environment, it is no surprise that we are also seeing a similar surge in the Thin Client market. Yes, you read that right. <strong>Not only are Thin Clients back but they’re cool too</strong>. These are definitely not your Grandfather’s “Green Screen” dummies we are talking about. These bad boys can put some full-on desktops to shame and they tend to be cheaper, last longer, and use less space and power.\r\n\r\nSo now that Thin Is In, the purpose of my post is to arm you with enough knowledge to help you make informed decisions down the road.\r\n\r\nBack in the day, your choice of thin clients was limited to one item from a handful of vendors <a href=\"http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02d/12454-12454-321959.html?dnr=1&amp;jumpid=in_r2515_us/en/smb/psg/psc404redir-ot-xx-xx-/chev/\">HP </a>and <a href=\"http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients\">Wyse</a>.\r\n\r\nFurther, you can easily see that from just two vendors there are tens of options, in some cases that is the number of options per model. What’s up with all that? It’s pretty simple once you break it all down. Hardware configurations are relatively similar between models. CPUs are typically of the low voltage family, leaving the only real difference being amount RAM and local storage. It’s the OS and software that sets these guys apart.\r\n\r\nHere are the three basic types of OSes available for Thin Clients:\r\n\r\nZero – There is no local storage. The device just initializes the network and receives everything straight from the cloud.\r\n\r\nLinux – Typically a hardened version of Debian skinned for the vendor.\r\n\r\nWindows – A lightweight version of the Windows desktop OS. Often referred to as “Windows Embedded.”\r\n\r\nPretty straightforward stuff. But that still leaves the all important question: “How do I know which one to choose?”\r\n\r\nBelieve it or not that is also a fairly easy question to answer. While price is often the sticking point, I like to look at what each option features. Here are some of the primary categories of features I look for in devices:\r\n\r\nSecurity – Zero clients are by far the best choice here. No local storage. Runs on RAM and networking. I frequently see these units in banks and healthcare facilities.\r\n\r\nEase of administration – Linux based thin clients are one of the bigger winners here. The management software that comes with them allow you to remotely install and update applications, configure settings, and remotely control the units. These pop up a lot in internet kiosks, classrooms, and SMBs.\r\n\r\nHigh flexibility – Would you believe that this is where Windows takes the prize? While these units often carry a heavier price tag (licensing), they offer a lot of customization. You can install SOME windows application directly onto the thin client. RSA SecureID and Cisco VPN client are a couple of good examples. You can also update most of the client connection applications like View and Citrix as soon as a new version is out. Even though you are still subject to the security issues of the desktop OS, you have the added benefit of being able to join the unit to a domain and apply GPOs to it, especially security policies. Large enterprises love that feature.\r\n\r\nTo sum up, virtualization is forcing us to rethink how we consume our desktops as much as it does our data center. Thin clients are back and they are providing a low cost means to providing high end security to our data. There are a dizzying amount of choices out there so do your homework! I hope that this has left you with more questions than answers. Because you shouldn’t take my word for it. Do some research. Prove me wrong. That way we all learn something new.','Thin Is In (Again)','','publish','open','open','','thin-is-in-again','','','2013-08-13 09:10:18','2013-08-13 13:10:18','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8501',0,'post','',0),(8502,40,'2013-08-13 09:07:58','2013-08-13 13:07:58','','Thin Client','','inherit','open','open','','images-4','','','2013-08-13 09:07:58','2013-08-13 13:07:58','',8501,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8503,40,'2013-08-13 09:08:18','2013-08-13 13:08:18','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8502\" alt=\"Thin client\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBrace yourself for what you\'re about to read.\r\n\r\nWith the recent surge of growth in the VDI environment, it is no surprise that we are also seeing a similar surge in the Thin Client market. Yes, you read that right. <strong>Not only are Thin Clients back but they’re cool too</strong>. These are definitely not your Grandfather’s “Green Screen” dummies we are talking about. These bad boys can put some full-on desktops to shame and they tend to be cheaper, last longer, and use less space and power.\r\n\r\nSo now that Thin Is In, the purpose of my post is to arm you with enough knowledge to help you make informed decisions down the road.\r\n\r\nBack in the day, your choice of thin clients was limited to one item from a handful of vendors <a href=\"http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02d/12454-12454-321959.html?dnr=1&amp;jumpid=in_r2515_us/en/smb/psg/psc404redir-ot-xx-xx-/chev/\">HP </a>and <a href=\"http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients\">Wyse</a>.\r\n\r\nFurther, you can easily see that from just two vendors there are tens of options, in some cases that is the number of options per model. What’s up with all that? It’s pretty simple once you break it all down. Hardware configurations are relatively similar between models. CPUs are typically of the low voltage family, leaving the only real difference being amount RAM and local storage. It’s the OS and software that sets these guys apart.\r\n\r\nHere are the three basic types of OSes available for Thin Clients:\r\n\r\nZero – There is no local storage. The device just initializes the network and receives everything straight from the cloud.\r\n\r\nLinux – Typically a hardened version of Debian skinned for the vendor.\r\n\r\nWindows – A lightweight version of the Windows desktop OS. Often referred to as “Windows Embedded.”\r\n\r\nPretty straightforward stuff. But that still leaves the all important question: “How do I know which one to choose?”\r\n\r\nBelieve it or not that is also a fairly easy question to answer. While price is often the sticking point, I like to look at what each option features. Here are some of the primary categories of features I look for in devices:\r\n\r\nSecurity – Zero clients are by far the best choice here. No local storage. Runs on RAM and networking. I frequently see these units in banks and healthcare facilities.\r\n\r\nEase of administration – Linux based thin clients are one of the bigger winners here. The management software that comes with them allow you to remotely install and update applications, configure settings, and remotely control the units. These pop up a lot in internet kiosks, classrooms, and SMBs.\r\n\r\nHigh flexibility – Would you believe that this is where Windows takes the prize? While these units often carry a heavier price tag (licensing), they offer a lot of customization. You can install SOME windows application directly onto the thin client. RSA SecureID and Cisco VPN client are a couple of good examples. You can also update most of the client connection applications like View and Citrix as soon as a new version is out. Even though you are still subject to the security issues of the desktop OS, you have the added benefit of being able to join the unit to a domain and apply GPOs to it, especially security policies. Large enterprises love that feature.\r\n\r\nTo sum up, virtualization is forcing us to rethink how we consume our desktops as much as it does our data center. Thin clients are back and they are providing a low cost means to providing high end security to our data. There are a dizzying amount of choices out there so do your homework! I hope that this has left you with more questions than answers. Because you shouldn’t take my word for it. Do some research. Prove me wrong. That way we all learn something new.','Thin Is In (Again)','','inherit','open','open','','8501-revision-v1','','','2013-08-13 09:08:18','2013-08-13 13:08:18','',8501,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8501-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8504,40,'2013-08-13 09:10:02','2013-08-13 13:10:02','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8502\" alt=\"Thin client\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBrace yourself for what you\'re about to read.\r\n\r\nWith the recent surge of growth in the VDI environment, it is no surprise that we are also seeing a similar surge in the Thin Client market. Yes, you read that right. <strong>Not only are Thin Clients back but they’re cool too</strong>. These are definitely not your Grandfather’s “Green Screen” dummies we are talking about. These bad boys can put some full-on desktops to shame and they tend to be cheaper, last longer, and use less space and power.\r\n\r\nSo now that Thin Is In, the purpose of my post is to arm you with enough knowledge to help you make informed decisions down the road.\r\n\r\nBack in the day, your choice of thin clients was limited to one item from a handful of vendors <a href=\"http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02d/12454-12454-321959.html?dnr=1&amp;jumpid=in_r2515_us/en/smb/psg/psc404redir-ot-xx-xx-/chev/\">HP </a>and <a href=\"http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients\">Wyse</a>.\r\n\r\nFurther, you can easily see that from just two vendors there are tens of options, in some cases that is the number of options per model. What’s up with all that? It’s pretty simple once you break it all down. Hardware configurations are relatively similar between models. CPUs are typically of the low voltage family, leaving the only real difference being amount RAM and local storage. It’s the OS and software that sets these guys apart.\r\n\r\nHere are the three basic types of OSes available for Thin Clients:\r\n\r\nZero – There is no local storage. The device just initializes the network and receives everything straight from the cloud.\r\n\r\nLinux – Typically a hardened version of Debian skinned for the vendor.\r\n\r\nWindows – A lightweight version of the Windows desktop OS. Often referred to as “Windows Embedded.”\r\n\r\nPretty straightforward stuff. But that still leaves the all important question: “How do I know which one to choose?”\r\n\r\nBelieve it or not that is also a fairly easy question to answer. While price is often the sticking point, I like to look at what each option features. Here are some of the primary categories of features I look for in devices:\r\n\r\nSecurity – Zero clients are by far the best choice here. No local storage. Runs on RAM and networking. I frequently see these units in banks and healthcare facilities.\r\n\r\nEase of administration – Linux based thin clients are one of the bigger winners here. The management software that comes with them allow you to remotely install and update applications, configure settings, and remotely control the units. These pop up a lot in internet kiosks, classrooms, and SMBs.\r\n\r\nHigh flexibility – Would you believe that this is where Windows takes the prize? While these units often carry a heavier price tag (licensing), they offer a lot of customization. You can install SOME windows application directly onto the thin client. RSA SecureID and Cisco VPN client are a couple of good examples. You can also update most of the client connection applications like View and Citrix as soon as a new version is out. Even though you are still subject to the security issues of the desktop OS, you have the added benefit of being able to join the unit to a domain and apply GPOs to it, especially security policies. Large enterprises love that feature.\r\n\r\nTo sum up, virtualization is forcing us to rethink how we consume our desktops as much as it does our data center. Thin clients are back and they are providing a low cost means to providing high end security to our data. There are a dizzying amount of choices out there so do your homework! I hope that this has left you with more questions than answers. Because you shouldn’t take my word for it. Do some research. Prove me wrong. That way we all learn something new.','Thin Is In (Again)','','inherit','open','open','','8501-autosave-v1','','','2013-08-13 09:10:02','2013-08-13 13:10:02','',8501,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8501-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8570,13,'2013-08-21 13:55:04','2013-08-21 17:55:04','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Cloud-Services-Sub-Icon.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8572\" alt=\"Cloud\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Cloud-Services-Sub-Icon-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThough I\'ve only worked in the information technology (IT) space for four years, I\'ve witnessed some drastic changes in tech adoption and the way customers are talking about the latest trends.\r\n\r\nFor example, four years ago \"the cloud\" was an enigmatic phrase but now customers seem to be much more understanding of not only its benefits but the computing model in general. Most organizations I meet with have adopted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) within their environment in some shape or form - email, HR, CRM, or accounting programs, to name a few. And now, these same organizations are rapidly moving to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)!\r\n\r\nAs an Account Executive at eGroup, I meet with customers daily and am starting to see some consistent pain points and challenges they\'re all collectively facing. Three immediate examples come to mind:\r\n<h2>Managing Hardware</h2>\r\nOrganizations are getting tired of managing their hardware and software infrastructure. The monthly patches, updates, and troubleshooting can become tedious at best and costly at worst. I have noticed this specifically in the SMB arena, where they might not need and/or have the funds to bring a full time employee in house to handle these items on a regular basis. So they\'re choosing to offload their infrastructure to a Hosted Cloud Provider to free the organization up from worrying about keeping the IT lights on and re-direct the focus more on their business and strategic goals. What\'s interesting is seeing some of the newer, start-ups I work with that \"were born in the cloud\" and have offloaded their entire infrastructure from the get go!\r\n<h2>Deploying Applications</h2>\r\nAnother concern I always hear, is that clients are having difficulties with deploying new servers and applications in a timely fashion. More importantly, trying to keep up with the demand of the end users seems to be a never ending battle for my customers. The ability to respond to business users and developers who require system and application resources, without a whole lot of planning and capital expenditure, is critical for the success of the business.\r\n<h2>Business Continuity</h2>\r\nAlso top-of-mind with customers is the ability to quickly reboot and recover data quickly in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately, most organizations are ill-prepared. Why? Because paying for \"insurance\" is never easy. However, migrating infrastructures to the cloud can eliminate the concerns all together in a cost effective way. Customer experience many benefits by migrating IT infrastructures to a Hosted Cloud Provider, it just all depends on the specific use case and business goals they are hoping to accomplish.\r\n\r\nSo, these are just three key pain points I\'m hearing from the front lines and how the cloud is helping - what are you hearing?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','From the Field: Why Customers are Moving to the Cloud','','publish','open','open','','from-the-customer-frontlines-why-theyre-moving-to-the-cloud','','','2013-08-21 13:55:36','2013-08-21 17:55:36','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8570',0,'post','',0),(8508,23,'2013-08-13 23:27:50','2013-08-14 03:27:50','I am constantly surprised at the number of customers that still rely on manual or even paper based processes.  These processes may be administrative in nature or they could be critical to producing a product or service.  We have had great platforms on which to automate most, if not all of these processes for a very long time.  Why is that?  It is mostly because the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes.\r\n\r\nWith Microsoft\'s SharePoint, that has changed.  The upfront cost of automating your business processes has drastically reduced.  How?  Microsoft\'s SharePoint Foundation comes with Windows Server and has most of the features you need in order to build automated processes.  With an investment into SharePoint Server (the paid version) you can do even more!\r\n\r\nAdditionally, there are many 3rd party solutions available that can make building these automated processes much easier.  The point of this would be to get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners.  This is an important factor when most IT departments are stretched well beyond their capable limits!\r\n\r\nOne of my favorite processes to automate is the HR Onboarding process.  From receiving resumes and applications to the new employee signing up for benefits and logging their time in the system for the first time; this process can be completely automated in most cases.  Let\'s break it down…\r\n<h2>Forms</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Microsoft\'s InfoPath provides a powerful tool for building versatile forms that can connect to many different data sources.  InfoPath can also be used to design forms that look exactly how you want them to look.  Need a form that looks like a W2?  Not a problem!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, 3rd party add-ons, such as Nintex Forms, provide even more features and capabilities.  Typically, the cost of 3rd party add-ons is very affordable and easy to justify.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workflows</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the meat of the business automation process.  In order to get data from point A to point B with data manipulation and lookups; you need workflows.  Workflows are extremely powerful and can be used to pull data in from or push data to almost any data source, make web service calls, create Active Directory users, setup Exchange mailboxes, and much more!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, there are 3rd party add-ons that are highly recommended when considering big automation projects.  These add-ons make designing and developing workflows very easy.  Nintex Workflows and K2 are the big names in SharePoint workflows.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Records Management</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automating your processes typically means that you are going to generate a lot more data.  This data can get very large, very quickly.  Not only can it grow in size, but if it isn\'t controlled or structured properly it can get very messy.  In order to manage this, we can setup rules to put data in the right place, retain it for a period of time, or archive it when appropriate.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Reporting</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\'s the point of collecting all of that data if you can\'t do some reporting on it?  Business Intelligence is huge right now and with good reason!  What if you could pinpoint a weak part of your process by reviewing reports?  What if you could find that you are wasting huge amounts of money and just need to tweak your processes a little to stop the bleeding?  These are just some examples of the scenarios where Big Data and BI can help make your business much more efficient.</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe point of all of this is to make your business more efficient so it can make more profit and do more.  When do you want to start?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Automating Your Business With SharePoint','','inherit','open','open','','8505-revision-v1','','','2013-08-13 23:27:50','2013-08-14 03:27:50','',8505,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8505-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8509,23,'2013-08-13 23:32:55','2013-08-14 03:32:55','I am constantly surprised at the number of customers that still rely on manual or even paper based processes.  These processes may be administrative in nature or they could be critical to producing a product or service.  We have had great platforms on which to automate most, if not all of these processes for a very long time.  Why is that?  It is mostly because the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em>the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes</em></span></p>\r\nWith Microsoft\'s SharePoint, that has changed.  The upfront cost of automating your business processes has drastically reduced.  How?  Microsoft\'s SharePoint Foundation comes with Windows Server and has most of the features you need in order to build automated processes.  With an investment into SharePoint Server (the paid version) you can do even more!\r\n\r\nAdditionally, there are many 3rd party solutions available that can make building these automated processes much easier.  The point of this would be to get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners.  This is an important factor when most IT departments are stretched well beyond their capable limits!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners</span></em></p>\r\nOne of my favorite processes to automate is the HR On-boarding process.  From receiving resumes and applications to the new employee signing up for benefits and logging their time in the system for the first time; 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this process can be completely automated in most cases.  Let\'s break it down…\r\n<h2>Forms</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Microsoft\'s InfoPath provides a powerful tool for building versatile forms that can connect to many different data sources.  InfoPath can also be used to design forms that look exactly how you want them to look.  Need a form that looks like a W2?  Not a problem!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, 3rd party add-ons, such as Nintex Forms, provide even more features and capabilities.  Typically, the cost of 3rd party add-ons is very affordable and easy to justify.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workflows</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the meat of the business automation process.  In order to get data from point A to point B with data manipulation and lookups; you need workflows.  Workflows are extremely powerful and can be used to pull data in from or push data to almost any data source, make web service calls, create Active Directory users, setup Exchange mailboxes, and much more!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, there are 3rd party add-ons that are highly recommended when considering big automation projects.  These add-ons make designing and developing workflows very easy.  Nintex Workflows and K2 are the big names in SharePoint workflows.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Records Management</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automating your processes typically means that you are going to generate a lot more data.  This data can get very large, very quickly.  Not only can it grow in size, but if it isn\'t controlled or structured properly it can get very messy.  In order to manage this, we can setup rules to put data in the right place, retain it for a period of time, or archive it when appropriate.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Reporting</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\'s the point of collecting all of that data if you can\'t do some reporting on it?  Business Intelligence is huge right now and with good reason!  What if you could pinpoint a weak part of your process by reviewing reports?  What if you could find that you are wasting huge amounts of money and just need to tweak your processes a little to stop the bleeding?  These are just some examples of the scenarios where Big Data and BI can help make your business much more efficient.</p>\r\nThe point of all of this is to make your business more efficient so it can make more profit and do more.  When do you want to start?','Automating Your Business With SharePoint','','inherit','open','open','','8505-revision-v1','','','2013-08-13 23:34:15','2013-08-14 03:34:15','',8505,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8505-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8513,29,'2013-08-14 09:57:06','2013-08-14 13:57:06','Technology is accelerating at such a fast rate that the price performance of computing is literally becoming pennies on the dollar.\r\n\r\nConsider this, in 1968 a single transistor cost one dollar. By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\" target=\"_blank\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. Thus the dawn of cloud computing was born.\r\n\r\nToday we are on the dawn of a new seamless integrated Flash hypervisor that takes advantage of accelerating return of server side flash by introducing a brand new data tier for virtualized environments.\r\n\r\nBelow, we are proud to share the presentation from the August 14 Charleston VMUG on PernixData’s FVP technology. You can also find on <a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes/charleston-v-mug814\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShare</a>. As always, I\'m happy to clarify and/or expand upon anything you see in the deck. Just connect with me @hsilf!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Charleston-VMUG_081413.pdf\"]','Charleston VMUG: Flash Hypervisors & the Software Defined Millennium','','publish','open','open','','charleston-vmug-flash-hypervisors-the-software-defined-millennium','','','2013-08-14 09:57:50','2013-08-14 13:57:50','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8513',0,'post','',0),(8514,40,'2013-08-14 09:47:51','2013-08-14 13:47:51','Technology is accelerating at such a fast rate that the price performance of computing is literally becoming pennies on the dollar.\r\n\r\nConsider this, in 1968 a single transistor cost one dollar. By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. 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By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. 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By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. Thus the dawn of cloud computing was born.\r\n\r\nToday we are on the dawn of a new seamless integrated Flash hypervisor that takes advantage of accelerating return of server side flash by introducing a brand new data tier for virtualized environments.\r\n\r\nBelow, we are proud to share the presentation from the August 14 Charleston VMUG on PernixData’s FVP technology. You can also find on SlideShare. &lt;iframe src=\"http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/25240864\" width=\"100%\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"max-width:427px;border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href=\"https://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes/charleston-v-mug814\" title=\"Charleston SC VMUG 8/14/13\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Charleston SC VMUG 8/14/13&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;lwilmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;\r\n\r\nAs always, I\'m happy to clarify and/or expand upon anything you see in the deck. Just connect with me @hsilf!','Charleston VMUG: Flash Hypervisors & the Software Defined Millennium','','inherit','open','open','','8513-revision-v1','','','2013-08-14 09:52:10','2013-08-14 13:52:10','',8513,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8513-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8519,40,'2013-08-14 09:55:13','2013-08-14 13:55:13','Technology is accelerating at such a fast rate that the price performance of computing is literally becoming pennies on the dollar.\r\n\r\nConsider this, in 1968 a single transistor cost one dollar. By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\" target=\"_blank\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. Thus the dawn of cloud computing was born.\r\n\r\nToday we are on the dawn of a new seamless integrated Flash hypervisor that takes advantage of accelerating return of server side flash by introducing a brand new data tier for virtualized environments.\r\n\r\nBelow, we are proud to share the presentation from the August 14 Charleston VMUG on PernixData’s FVP technology. You can also find on <a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes/charleston-v-mug814\">SlideShare</a>.\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Charleston-VMUG_081413.pdf\"]\r\n\r\nAs always, I\'m happy to clarify and/or expand upon anything you see in the deck. Just connect with me @hsilf!','Charleston VMUG: Flash Hypervisors & the Software Defined Millennium','','inherit','open','open','','8513-revision-v1','','','2013-08-14 09:55:13','2013-08-14 13:55:13','',8513,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8513-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8517,40,'2013-08-14 09:53:27','2013-08-14 13:53:27','','Charleston VMUG_081413','','inherit','open','open','','charleston-vmug_081413','','','2013-08-14 09:53:27','2013-08-14 13:53:27','',8513,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Charleston-VMUG_081413.pdf',0,'attachment','application/pdf',0),(8520,40,'2013-08-14 09:55:52','2013-08-14 13:55:52','Technology is accelerating at such a fast rate that the price performance of computing is literally becoming pennies on the dollar.\r\n\r\nConsider this, in 1968 a single transistor cost one dollar. By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\" target=\"_blank\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. Thus the dawn of cloud computing was born.\r\n\r\nToday we are on the dawn of a new seamless integrated Flash hypervisor that takes advantage of accelerating return of server side flash by introducing a brand new data tier for virtualized environments.\r\n\r\nBelow, we are proud to share the presentation from the August 14 Charleston VMUG on PernixData’s FVP technology. You can also find on <a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes/charleston-v-mug814\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShare</a>.\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Charleston-VMUG_081413.pdf\"]\r\n\r\nAs always, I\'m happy to clarify and/or expand upon anything you see in the deck. Just connect with me @hsilf!','Charleston VMUG: Flash Hypervisors & the Software Defined Millennium','','inherit','open','open','','8513-revision-v1','','','2013-08-14 09:55:52','2013-08-14 13:55:52','',8513,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8513-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8521,40,'2013-08-14 09:57:50','2013-08-14 13:57:50','Technology is accelerating at such a fast rate that the price performance of computing is literally becoming pennies on the dollar.\r\n\r\nConsider this, in 1968 a single transistor cost one dollar. By 2002, a dollar could purchase 10 million transistors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore\'s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore’s Law</a> describes the doubling of computer processing unit clocks speeds every eighteen months. Furthermore <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law\" target=\"_blank\">Kyger’s law</a> describes the doubling of magnetic disk capacity’s  at an even faster rate. By 2020 you’ll be able to buy a 14 Terabyte drive for $40.\r\n\r\nHow does all this increase in speed and capacity, decrease in price, and commoditization of computing hardware affect Information Technology?\r\n\r\nWith the software that takes advantage of it, of course.\r\n\r\nVMware changed the game by creating the first bare metal x86 hypervisor. Taking advantage of underutilized CPUs in commodity servers, VMware showed us that the correctly applied <em>software</em> will push the gains of efficiently even further than the standard rate of hardware acceleration. Thus the dawn of cloud computing was born.\r\n\r\nToday we are on the dawn of a new seamless integrated Flash hypervisor that takes advantage of accelerating return of server side flash by introducing a brand new data tier for virtualized environments.\r\n\r\nBelow, we are proud to share the presentation from the August 14 Charleston VMUG on PernixData’s FVP technology. You can also find on <a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/lwilmes/charleston-v-mug814\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShare</a>. As always, I\'m happy to clarify and/or expand upon anything you see in the deck. Just connect with me @hsilf!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Charleston-VMUG_081413.pdf\"]','Charleston VMUG: Flash Hypervisors & the Software Defined Millennium','','inherit','open','open','','8513-revision-v1','','','2013-08-14 09:57:50','2013-08-14 13:57:50','',8513,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8513-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8522,40,'2013-08-15 10:16:14','2013-08-15 14:16:14','I am constantly surprised at the number of customers that still rely on manual or even paper based processes. These processes may be administrative in nature or they could be critical to producing a product or service. We have had great platforms on which to automate most, if not all, of these processes for a very long time - but yet we remain mired in manual processes.\r\n\r\nWhy is that? Well, it\'s mostly because the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes</em></span></p>\r\nWith Microsoft\'s SharePoint, that has changed. The upfront cost of automating your business processes has drastically reduced. How?  Microsoft\'s SharePoint Foundation comes with Windows Server and has most of the features you need in order to build automated processes.  With an investment into SharePoint Server (the paid version) you can do even more!\r\n\r\nAdditionally, there are many 3rd party solutions available that can make building these automated processes much easier. The point of this would be to get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners. This is an important factor when most IT departments are stretched well beyond their capable limits!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners</em></span></p>\r\nOne of my favorite processes to automate is the HR On-boarding process. From receiving resumes and applications to the new employee signing up for benefits and logging their time in the system for the first time; this process can be completely automated in most cases.\r\n\r\nLet\'s break it down.\r\n<h2>Forms</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Microsoft\'s InfoPath provides a powerful tool for building versatile forms that can connect to many different data sources. InfoPath can also be used to design forms that look exactly how you want them to look. Need a form that looks like a W2? Not a problem!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, 3rd party add-ons, such as Nintex Forms, provide even more features and capabilities. Typically, the cost of 3rd party add-ons is very affordable and easy to justify.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workflows</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the meat of the business automation process. In order to get data from point A to point B with data manipulation and lookups; you need workflows. Workflows are extremely powerful and can be used to pull data in from or push data to almost any data source, make web service calls, create Active Directory users, setup Exchange mailboxes, and much more!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, there are 3rd party add-ons that are highly recommended when considering big automation projects. These add-ons make designing and developing workflows very easy. Nintex Workflows and K2 are the big names in SharePoint workflows.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Records Management</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automating your processes typically means that you are going to generate a lot more data. This data can get very large, very quickly. Not only can it grow in size, but if it isn\'t controlled or structured properly it can get very messy. In order to manage this, we can setup rules to put data in the right place, retain it for a period of time, or archive it when appropriate.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Reporting</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\'s the point of collecting all of that data if you can\'t do some reporting on it? <a href=\"http://www.eweek.com/small-business/it-management-bi-top-government-cio-priorities-gartner/\">With Business Intelligence being the number one priority of CIOs according to Gartner</a>, now is the perfect time to start developing and/or executing on that BI plan. What if you could pinpoint a weak part of your process by reviewing reports? What if you could find that you are wasting huge amounts of money and just need to tweak your processes a little to stop the bleeding? These are just some examples of the scenarios where Big Data and BI can help make your business much more efficient.</p>\r\nThe point of all of this is to make your business more efficient so it can make more profit and do more.\r\n\r\nSo what are you waiting for?','Automating Your Business With SharePoint','','inherit','open','open','','8505-autosave-v1','','','2013-08-15 10:16:14','2013-08-15 14:16:14','',8505,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8505-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8523,40,'2013-08-15 10:16:07','2013-08-15 14:16:07','I am constantly surprised at the number of customers that still rely on manual or even paper based processes. These processes may be administrative in nature or they could be critical to producing a product or service. We have had great platforms on which to automate most, if not all, of these processes for a very long time - but yet we remain mired in manual processes.\r\n\r\nWhy is that? Well, it\'s mostly because the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>the business doesn\'t want to invest the upfront costs of automating those processes</em></span></p>\r\nWith Microsoft\'s SharePoint, that has changed. The upfront cost of automating your business processes has drastically reduced. How?  Microsoft\'s SharePoint Foundation comes with Windows Server and has most of the features you need in order to build automated processes.  With an investment into SharePoint Server (the paid version) you can do even more!\r\n\r\nAdditionally, there are many 3rd party solutions available that can make building these automated processes much easier. The point of this would be to get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners. This is an important factor when most IT departments are stretched well beyond their capable limits!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>get the development out of the hands of IT and into the hands of the process owners</em></span></p>\r\nOne of my favorite processes to automate is the HR On-boarding process. From receiving resumes and applications to the new employee signing up for benefits and logging their time in the system for the first time; this process can be completely automated in most cases.\r\n\r\nLet\'s break it down.\r\n<h2>Forms</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Microsoft\'s InfoPath provides a powerful tool for building versatile forms that can connect to many different data sources. InfoPath can also be used to design forms that look exactly how you want them to look. Need a form that looks like a W2? Not a problem!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, 3rd party add-ons, such as Nintex Forms, provide even more features and capabilities. Typically, the cost of 3rd party add-ons is very affordable and easy to justify.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workflows</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the meat of the business automation process. In order to get data from point A to point B with data manipulation and lookups; you need workflows. Workflows are extremely powerful and can be used to pull data in from or push data to almost any data source, make web service calls, create Active Directory users, setup Exchange mailboxes, and much more!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, there are 3rd party add-ons that are highly recommended when considering big automation projects. These add-ons make designing and developing workflows very easy. Nintex Workflows and K2 are the big names in SharePoint workflows.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Records Management</h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automating your processes typically means that you are going to generate a lot more data. This data can get very large, very quickly. Not only can it grow in size, but if it isn\'t controlled or structured properly it can get very messy. In order to manage this, we can setup rules to put data in the right place, retain it for a period of time, or archive it when appropriate.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Reporting</strong></h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\'s the point of collecting all of that data if you can\'t do some reporting on it? <a href=\"http://www.eweek.com/small-business/it-management-bi-top-government-cio-priorities-gartner/\">With Business Intelligence being the number one priority of CIOs according to Gartner</a>, now is the perfect time to start developing and/or executing on that BI plan. What if you could pinpoint a weak part of your process by reviewing reports? What if you could find that you are wasting huge amounts of money and just need to tweak your processes a little to stop the bleeding? These are just some examples of the scenarios where Big Data and BI can help make your business much more efficient.</p>\r\nThe point of all of this is to make your business more efficient so it can make more profit and do more.\r\n\r\nSo what are you waiting for?','Automating Your Business With SharePoint','','inherit','open','open','','8505-revision-v1','','','2013-08-15 10:16:07','2013-08-15 14:16:07','',8505,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8505-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8524,23,'2012-11-05 15:51:26','2012-11-05 20:51:26','As a SharePoint consultant who has worked with dozens of customers, the one constant I face, over and over, is that users are inherently resistant to change. It\'s just a fact. And, who can blame them if they\'re not properly educated and supported over the course of that process change - whatever that may be.\r\n\r\nSo, with respect to SharePoint, driving user adoption is one of the most important, but also one of the most difficult tasks that a SharePoint architect/administrator has. You could even say that it is the single most important task when designing/deploying SharePoint. Simply because it drives everything else. If the deployment doesn\'t function correctly, then user adoption will suffer. If it is difficult to navigate or understand, then user adoption will suffer.\r\n\r\nCouple all of these factors together and it will be difficult to meet your SharePoint project success metrics. Here are some key areas that I like to focus on when planning for user adoption:\r\n<h1><strong>1. Familiar</strong></h1>\r\nIn order to properly design a SharePoint deployment, you must think like an end user. And not just any end user...YOUR end users. Every corporate IT environment is unique.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">How do your users access shared documents?\r\nHow do they access their personal documents?\r\nHow do they access reports?\r\nHow do they share ideas?</p>\r\nThese are all key questions that need to be asked. A survey of a portion of your users probably wouldn\'t hurt either.  The closer you can make accessing documents and information to the way your users are familiar with will help tremendously with user adoption! <span style=\"color: #000000\"> For example, if your users are used to the traditional network share filled with folders, then a single document library may work best.  If the folder structure is broken out by department already, then setting up separate document libraries for each department may be best.</span>\r\n<h1>2. Functional</h1>\r\nOne of the biggest reasons for choosing SharePoint that I hear is for \'document sharing\'. But, why use SharePoint? Why not just use a network share or maybe even a cloud based sharing solution? These are common questions and they are completely understandable. However, it shows a lack of understanding of the key enterprise features that SharePoint offers. Here are some key features that users should be well trained on prior to deployment so they fully understand how to use the tool.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Versioning\r\nPermissions\r\nNavigation\r\nWorkflows\r\nEnterprise Search\r\nContent Types and Document Templates</p>\r\nThese are just some examples of features that most users find indispensable. So make sure you engage and educate them prior to going live with the deployment.\r\n<h1>3. Automation</h1>\r\nAutomation is key when implementing SharePoint as well because it makes refusing to use SharePoint very difficult to justify. Automating processes such as HR On-boarding, Capital Purchasing Approval, Information Requests, IT Help Desk Ticketing, and so much more have huge ROI potential! A simple, high-level review of \'painful\' processes that departments have to deal with could reveal perfect use-cases for automation.\r\n\r\nHave you deployed SharePoint in your business?  If so, what is your user adoption rate?  What could make it better?  If you haven\'t deployed it, but would like to, did this post help give you a good idea on how to drive adoption? Let us know how we can help!  Contact eGroup\'s Application Services Team at <a href=\"mailto:ApplicationServices@eGroup-us.com\">ApplicationServices@eGroup-us.com</a> for more information.','Overcoming SharePoint\'s Achilles Heel: User Adoption','','inherit','open','open','','4774-revision-v1','','','2012-11-05 15:51:26','2012-11-05 20:51:26','',4774,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/4774-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8525,23,'2011-12-28 20:07:21','2011-12-28 20:07:21','Often times, you may have custom attributes setup in Active Directory or some other source where your user profile information comes from.  Here\'s how to map those custom attributes to profile properties in SharePoint 2010\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Log in to Central Administration</li>\r\n	<li>Go to Manage Service Applications</li>\r\n	<li>Click on your User Profile Service Application</li>\r\n	<li>Click on ‘Manage User Properties’</li>\r\n	<li>Scroll down the list of properties until you see the one you want to map and edit it.</li>\r\n	<li>On the ‘Edit User Profile Property’ page, scroll to the bottom until you see the ‘Property Mapping for Synchronization’ section.</li>\r\n	<li>If this section has the correct mapping listed then should go to Step 10.  If nothing is listed, then please proceed to the next step.</li>\r\n	<li>The next section is the ‘Add New Mapping’ section.  Select the Source, Attribute, and Direction of the new mapping and click ‘Add’.  If no sources are available, ensure that you have setup the connection to your active directory instance.</li>\r\n	<li>Once successfully added, click ‘OK’</li>\r\n	<li>Go back to the User Profile Service Application page and start a Full Synchronization.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Start Profile Synchronization</li>\r\n	<li>Select ‘Start Full Synchronization’ and click ‘OK’.</li>\r\n	<li>Once the synchronization has completed, go to ‘Manage User Profiles’.</li>\r\n	<li>Find the name of the user you want to check for the imported attribute and choose ‘Edit My Profile’</li>\r\n	<li>Scroll down to the property that you imported and verify that the correct data is there.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','SharePoint 2010: Map AD Profile Attribute to User Profile Property','','inherit','open','open','','5770-revision-v1','','','2011-12-28 20:07:21','2011-12-28 20:07:21','',5770,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2011/12/5770-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8526,23,'2011-11-09 16:40:36','2011-11-09 16:40:36','Restoring a Shared Service Provider can be a frustrating task. Especially when the feedback you get from STSADM doesn\'t help. For example, when the SSP has not been deleted before doing a NEW Restore, the Shared Search Service restore will stall at 90%. It will stay at 90% until you kill the process (CTRL+C).\r\n\r\nMake sure that you delete ALL associated DBs. STSADM will ask you for a new name for each DB before it tries to restore them, so you could delete DBs as it asks if you aren\'t sure.\r\n\r\nIt is also recommended that you stop the SPSearch service. Here is the process for restoring a SSP...\r\n\r\nStop Search: (Delete the Search Index when asked)\r\nstsadm -o spsearch -action stop\r\n\r\nDelete all SSP DBs and Search DBs.  If you are not restoring ALL of you SSPs, then make sure you only delete the DB for your SSP(s).\r\n\r\nGet Backup GUID Command:\r\nstsadm -o backuphistory -directory\r\n\r\nSSP Restore Command: (Restore all SSPs)\r\nstsadm -o restore -directory -restoremethod new -backupid -newdatabaseserver\r\n\r\nReset IIS Command:\r\niisreset /noforce','SHAREPOINT 2007: Restoring an SSP stalls on restoring Shared Search Index','','inherit','open','open','','5440-revision-v1','','','2011-11-09 16:40:36','2011-11-09 16:40:36','',5440,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2011/11/5440-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8527,23,'2011-10-10 18:15:46','2011-10-10 18:15:46','When you install SQL with Basic Management Tools, the installer does not allow you to go back and install the Complete Management Tools. The option will be grayed out.\r\n\r\nIn order to install the Complete Management Tools, insert the installation media for SQL, then open a command prompt and run the following...\r\n\r\n<strong>setup.exe\r\n/FEATURES=Tools /Q\r\n/INDICATEPROGRESS\r\n/ACTION=Install\r\n/INSTANCENAME=SQLSERVER2008R2Ent\r\n</strong><strong>/BROWSERSVCSTARTUPTYPE=Automatic\r\n/AGTSVCACCOUNT=”NT AUTHORITY\\NETWORK SERVICE”\r\n/IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS</strong>\r\n\r\nNote: Replace \"SQLSERVER2008R2Ent\" with the name of your instance.\r\nNote 2: The above command is for SQL 2008R2. 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This is huge!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>There are many 3rd party tools that handle this for you on a granular level as well.  You can specify file types, sizes, etc that should be stored in the BLOB, rather than in SQL.</div>','SHAREPOINT 2010: THE BLOB','','inherit','open','open','','4872-revision-v1','','','2011-09-14 00:53:23','2011-09-14 00:53:23','',4872,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2011/09/4872-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8529,23,'2011-09-02 12:29:26','2011-09-02 12:29:26','Customizing SharePoint\'s look and feel can be very tedious and time consuming. But, there are some important tools that you should be aware of that make it a lot easier!\r\n\r\nThe first tool you should consider are the SP Master Starter pages that are available on <a href=\"http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com\" target=\"_blank\">CodePlex</a>.  These starter pages have comments throughout the code that tell you exactly what each section is used for and what it does.  This is <em>extremely</em> useful and a <em>lot</em> easier than using the OOB master pages!\r\n\r\nAnother tool that ties in nicely with the Starter Master pages is this <a href=\"http://sharepointexperience.com/csschart/csschart.html\" target=\"_blank\">CSS Chart</a>.  This will help immensly when overriding the core CSS styles.  It will list all of the styles, tell you what they are used for, and give you a nice override key that you can use in your own CSS file.\r\n\r\nNo designer or developer would have a complete toolbox unless they had the IE F12 Developer Tools or the <a href=\"http://getfirebug.com\" target=\"_blank\">FireBug</a> plugin for Firefox.  Both of these tools will allow you to select elements on a page and see the code behind them.  Not only that, but FireBug will allow you to make inline changes to CSS styles and see the changes in real-time.  This is a <em>huge</em> time saver!\r\n\r\nSo there you have it.  These are the 3 main tools that I use whenever I do custom design work in SharePoint 2010.','SHAREPOINT 2010: CUSTOM MASTER PAGES','','inherit','open','open','','4708-revision-v1','','','2011-09-02 12:29:26','2011-09-02 12:29:26','',4708,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2011/09/4708-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8530,23,'2013-08-15 18:09:02','2013-08-15 22:09:02','Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 allow you to edit documents at the same time. 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Run the SQL 2008 Setup to create a Failover Cluster\n\n4. Add the Failover Clustering Feature to the other servers in the cluster and add them as nodes.\n\n5. Run the SQL 2008 Setup to add the additional nodes in the cluster\n\nUseful Links:\n\n<a title=\"Microsoft SQL 2008 Clustering Guide\" href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179530.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft SQL 2008 Clustering Guide</a>\n<a title=\"MSSQLTips.com Guide to SQL Clustering\" href=\"http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1709\" target=\"_blank\">MSSQLTips.com Guide to SQL Clustering</a> - Highly recommended!','SQL 2008: CREATING A CLUSTER','','inherit','open','open','','4086-autosave-v1','','','2013-08-15 18:09:33','2013-08-15 22:09:33','',4086,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/4086-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8532,40,'2013-06-11 12:03:29','2013-06-11 16:03:29','Design, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Application Virtualization and Delivery</li>\r\n	<li>Applications Development and Integration Services</li>\r\n	<li>Collaborative Solutions Development</li>\r\n	<li>Application Security and Platform Fabrics</li>\r\n	<li>Data Analytic and Business Intelligence Services</li>\r\n	<li>Improved Insight into Structured and Unstructured Data Stores</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Modernize Today’s Apps. 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Combined with leading application delivery solutions eGroup applications engineers can deploy those applications rapidly to any device on any platform—Virtual/Physical Windows 7, XP, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android!\r\n\r\n<strong>Key use cases:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>New cloud-era capabilities for existing applications</li>\r\n	<li>Modern, horizontally scalable services for cloud-era applications</li>\r\n	<li>Application modernization</li>\r\n	<li>Agile application deployment with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">frt(96248);</script>','Application Services','Design, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.','inherit','open','open','','32-revision-v1','','','2013-06-11 12:03:29','2013-06-11 16:03:29','',32,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/32-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8534,40,'2013-08-16 09:46:25','2013-08-16 13:46:25','Design, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Application Virtualization and Delivery</li>\r\n	<li>Applications Development and Integration Services</li>\r\n	<li>Collaborative Solutions Development</li>\r\n	<li>Application Security and Platform Fabrics</li>\r\n	<li>Data Analytic and Business Intelligence Services</li>\r\n	<li>Improved Insight into Structured and Unstructured Data Stores</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Modernize Today’s Apps. 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Combined with leading application delivery solutions eGroup applications engineers can deploy those applications rapidly to any device on any platform—Virtual/Physical Windows 7, XP, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android!\r\n\r\n<strong>Key use cases:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>New cloud-era capabilities for existing applications</li>\r\n	<li>Modern, horizontally scalable services for cloud-era applications</li>\r\n	<li>Application modernization</li>\r\n	<li>Agile application deployment with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">frt(96248);</script>','Application Services','Design, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.','inherit','open','open','','32-revision-v1','','','2013-08-16 09:46:25','2013-08-16 13:46:25','',32,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/32-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8533,40,'2013-08-16 09:45:13','2013-08-16 13:45:13','<script type=\'text/javascript\' src=\'https://feed.microsoft.com/FeedStore/GetFeed.ashx?FeedId=b08ae9dc-4088-4aac-8e69-b1fa6fac0c3c&CompanyName=Egroup%2c%20Inc.&AddressLine1=482%20Wando%20Park%20Blvd&City=MOUNT%20PLEASANT&State=South%20Carolina&PostalCode=29464-4587&CompanyPhoneNumber=%201%20%28843%29%20284-0146&CompanyURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.eGroup-us.com&EmailID=Rich.Young%40eGroup-us.com&width=180px&height=150px\'></script>\r\n\r\nDesign, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Application Virtualization and Delivery</li>\r\n	<li>Applications Development and Integration Services</li>\r\n	<li>Collaborative Solutions Development</li>\r\n	<li>Application Security and Platform Fabrics</li>\r\n	<li>Data Analytic and Business Intelligence Services</li>\r\n	<li>Improved Insight into Structured and Unstructured Data Stores</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Modernize Today’s Apps. Build for Tomorrow’s.</strong>\r\n\r\nAs a forward thinking company, eGroup has proactively built a dedicated Applications and Development team with a focus on End-User Computing and Application Delivery and Data Services. eGroup’s Applications and Development Team provides best-of-breed technologies that allow our customers to manage applications once and deploy anywhere. eGroup\'s talented applications engineers help our customers Increase Collaboration and Productivity, Simplify Management, Expedite Delivery and Improve Service levels by combining world-class products with exceptional engineering.\r\n\r\nUtilizing proven application virtualization technologies eGroup applications engineers can simplify delivery, management, and reliability of cutting edge and legacy applications. Combined with leading application delivery solutions eGroup applications engineers can deploy those applications rapidly to any device on any platform—Virtual/Physical Windows 7, XP, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android!\r\n\r\n<strong>Key use cases:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>New cloud-era capabilities for existing applications</li>\r\n	<li>Modern, horizontally scalable services for cloud-era applications</li>\r\n	<li>Application modernization</li>\r\n	<li>Agile application deployment with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">frt(96248);</script>','Application Services','Design, development, integration, and optimization make it possible for strategic and tactical services to deliver effective business-critical application architectures.','inherit','open','open','','32-revision-v1','','','2013-08-16 09:45:13','2013-08-16 13:45:13','',32,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/32-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8535,40,'2013-08-16 11:57:13','2013-08-16 15:57:13','Given that it\'s the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we\'d share some lighter fare as opposed to recent \"meatier\" posts such as <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, in an effort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about the eGroup team since last year\'s final summer Friday - and here\'s a few we found:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK\'s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK\'s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK.\" - Mike Murphy, president at <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Technologies</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management.\" - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href=\"http://scfbins.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCFB Insurance</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.\" - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Acryness</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup is fantastic. They have an excellent technical staff and their service is outstanding. They took the time to understand our needs, as well as where we wanted to go, and they put together a plan to get us there. Once we gave them the go-ahead it was all implemented quickly and precisely. We couldn’t ask for a better partner.\" - Bonnie Miley, IT Supervisor, <a href=\"http://www.ifichs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">International Forwarders, Inc.</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup has a local presence to understand how our business operates. They understood our needs and the business drivers, and the technical knowledge that eGroup is able to instantly see, and then build solutions around what we already have and improve our infrastructure. There was just no hesitation of using eGroup for their services.\" - Phillip Reynolds, Director of Enterprise IT Solutions, <a href=\"https://www.wfcorp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Williams &amp; Fudge</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup was great to work with. Everyone from the salesmen to the technicians of each phase were fantastic and I would definitely recommend them to anybody else.\" - Dave Dixon, IT Director, <a href=\"http://www.northcharleston.org/\" target=\"_blank\">City of North Charleston</a></p>\r\nFrom all of us at eGroup, enjoy the final couple of weeks of summer!','Customer Quotables','','publish','open','open','','customer-quotables','','','2013-08-16 11:57:13','2013-08-16 15:57:13','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8535',0,'post','',0),(8536,40,'2013-08-16 11:40:45','2013-08-16 15:40:45','Given that it\'s the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we\'d share some lighter fare as opposed to recent meatier posts such as <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>. So, in a neffort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about eGroup and the team since last year\'s final summer Friday - and here\'s what we found:\r\n\r\n\"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK\'s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK\'s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK.\" - Mike Murphy, president at <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Technologies</a>\r\n\r\n\"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management.\" - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href=\"http://scfbins.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCFB Insurance</a>\r\n\r\n\"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.\" - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Acryness</a>','Cusomter Quotables','','inherit','open','open','','8535-revision-v1','','','2013-08-16 11:40:45','2013-08-16 15:40:45','',8535,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8535-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8537,40,'2013-08-16 11:41:08','2013-08-16 15:41:08','Given that it\'s the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we\'d share some lighter fare as opposed to recent meatier posts such as <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>. So, in a neffort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about eGroup and the team since last year\'s final summer Friday - and here\'s what we found:\r\n\r\n\"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK\'s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK\'s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK.\" - Mike Murphy, president at <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Technologies</a>\r\n\r\n\"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management.\" - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href=\"http://scfbins.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCFB Insurance</a>\r\n\r\n\"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.\" - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Acryness</a>','Customer Quotables','','inherit','open','open','','8535-revision-v1','','','2013-08-16 11:41:08','2013-08-16 15:41:08','',8535,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8535-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8538,40,'2013-08-16 11:51:09','2013-08-16 15:51:09','Given that it\'s the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we\'d share some lighter fare as opposed to recent meatier posts such as <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>. So, in a neffort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about eGroup and the team since last year\'s final summer Friday - and here\'s what we found:\r\n\r\n\"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK\'s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK\'s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK.\" - Mike Murphy, president at <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Technologies</a>\r\n\r\n\"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management.\" - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href=\"http://scfbins.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCFB Insurance</a>\r\n\r\n\"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.\" - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Acryness</a>\r\n\r\n\"eGroup is fantastic. They have an excellent technical staff and their service is outstanding. They took the time to understand our needs, as well as where we wanted to go, and they put together a plan to get us there. Once we gave them the go-ahead it was all implemented quickly and precisely. We couldn’t ask for a better partner.\" - Bonnie Miley, IT Supervisor, <a href=\"http://www.ifichs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">International Forwarders, Inc.</a>\r\n\r\n\"eGroup has a local presence to understand how our business operates. They understood our needs and the business drivers, and the technical knowledge that eGroup is able to instantly see, and then build solutions around what we already have and improve our infrastructure. There was just no hesitation of using eGroup for their services.\" - Phillip Reynolds, Director of Enterprise IT Solutions, <a href=\"https://www.wfcorp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Williams &amp; Fudge</a>\r\n\r\n\"eGroup was great to work with. Everyone from the salesmen to the technicians of each phase were fantastic and I would definitely recommend them to anybody else.\" - Dave Dixon, IT Director, <a href=\"http://www.northcharleston.org/\" target=\"_blank\">City of North Charleston</a>','Customer Quotables','','inherit','open','open','','8535-revision-v1','','','2013-08-16 11:51:09','2013-08-16 15:51:09','',8535,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8535-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(8539,40,'2013-08-16 11:57:05','2013-08-16 15:57:05','Given that it\'s the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we\'d share some lighter fare as opposed to recent \"meatier\" posts such as <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, in an effort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about the eGroup team since last year\'s final summer Friday - and here\'s a few we found:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK\'s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK\'s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK.\" - Mike Murphy, president at <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Technologies</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management.\" - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href=\"http://scfbins.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCFB Insurance</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.\" - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Acryness</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup is fantastic. They have an excellent technical staff and their service is outstanding. They took the time to understand our needs, as well as where we wanted to go, and they put together a plan to get us there. Once we gave them the go-ahead it was all implemented quickly and precisely. We couldn’t ask for a better partner.\" - Bonnie Miley, IT Supervisor, <a href=\"http://www.ifichs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">International Forwarders, Inc.</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup has a local presence to understand how our business operates. They understood our needs and the business drivers, and the technical knowledge that eGroup is able to instantly see, and then build solutions around what we already have and improve our infrastructure. There was just no hesitation of using eGroup for their services.\" - Phillip Reynolds, Director of Enterprise IT Solutions, <a href=\"https://www.wfcorp.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Williams &amp; Fudge</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"eGroup was great to work with. 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