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So much knowledge to consume. An archived personal reading list — cloud, virtualization, channel/MSP, and hosting links collected mostly between 2011 and 2015.

Unverified, legacy archive. This page was restyled for readability on 2026-08-19 — every link and description below is preserved exactly as originally saved. Nothing here has been re-checked for link rot; given the age, expect a meaningful number of dead links. Treat this as a historical archive, not a current resource list.

Cloud & Virtualization

Channel Transitions 2014 Conference

A valuable conference for VARs, MSPs, ISVs, technology vendors, and distributors. Articles and videos recapping previous Channel Transitions Conferences.

Articles
Videos

OpenStack & Cloud Infrastructure

BrightTALK webcast
Cloud workload monitoring and migration tools
Cloud workload monitoring and migration tools
Andrew Clay Shafer's guided tour of OpenStack projects and ecosystems — history, architecture, and deploy/operate tooling. Jump to 38:10 for the Cloud Blueprint: Applications, Billing, etc.
Four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software

Storage & Virtualization

Windows Server 2012 Evaluation

Trial download and evaluation resources — guides, demos, competitive comparisons, training videos, and migration approaches for attaining new levels of agility and efficiency.

A Microsoft or Microsoft Certified Partner Sales Representative can directly support evaluation by recommending approaches and materials relevant to specific needs and direction.

Microsoft Roadmap & Lync 2013

Roadmap to WAVE 15
Lync 2013 Preview Information

Links providing great information on Lync 2013 — plenty more articles and posts were still being generated at the time; the #lync hashtag on Twitter was the way to follow along.

Red Hat & Open Source Cloud

Tech & Business News

Seeking Alpha — filed here under "must catch up on my investment strategy" in the original list; there's also a dedicated Investing Dashboards page on this blog this may belong with instead.

Hosting, Service Providers & Parallels/Plesk

A scalable, multi-server automation solution for shared hosting, giving growing hosters the power, performance, and scale previously available only to hosting giants.
Same URL as the entry above under Cloud & Virtualization — listed twice in the original.
Raw IP address login form from the original list — treat with particular caution; almost certainly dead and not something to click through blind even if it resolves.
Appears in the original list with no surrounding context — likely a stray/incidental link.
Listed twice in the original (once with a trailing URL-encoded space) — kept once here.
Hosted on a "temp." subdomain in the original — a strong sign this one's gone.
Originally compiled 2011–2015. Restyled for readability 2026-08-19 — content and links preserved as-is; not re-verified.

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