Joe Homnick is a Microsoft Regional Director Ambassador, who is the principal owner of Homnick Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida.
Joe has been selected as a featured speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed for eight years in America, Europe and Latin America, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), all Microsoft DevDays events and the Vista/Office 2007/Visual Studio 2005 Ascend/Touchdown Early Adopters program throughout the US, Europe and China. Most recently Joe has been selected by Microsoft as a "Go To" trainer for Vista, SharePoint 2007, LongHorn Server and CRM 4.0.
His previous professional experience includes being an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University and a Computer Audit Specialist for KPMG.
TechTalk
25 Jun 2009
Azure Cloud Value Proposition on a Tight IT Budget
Joe Homnick writes
"...The Cloud Computing approach smoothes this Cost/Utilization by allowing the enterprise to only purchase the amount of computing power that they need to meet utilization requirements. Another issue that Cloud Computing addresses is daily Periodicity of Demand. The typical demand curve in a fully utilized system looks like the following:"
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Editors Picks
06 Jun 2009
Commands for Windows 7.0 Boot to VHD Feature
Joe Homnick writes
"...With Windows 7.0 there is a new capability to Boot to a Virtual Machine VHD file. This is not running a virtual machine in Virtual PC or Hyper-V, rather it is running it with full hardware fidelity...Execute these commands and you have a new boot option when restarting..."
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27 Apr 2009
Windows 7 Aces Memory Requirements - Processing Speed and Services
Joe Homnick writes
"...The amount of memory requirements has been reduced and processing speeded up along with quite a bit of use of background services. The concept being that if you only need a service, like USB operations...only fire up that service when it is appropriate. This decreases memory size, allows for faster processing and also..."
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