IT Blog The information security industry is built on a model of protecting internal network assets and resources from external threats. IT and security administrators are heavily invested in the concept of the network perimeter and an us-vs-them approach. The problem is that most of the threats actually co...
Windows 7, Windows XP, Zecurion IT Blog Office Starter 2010 is the Microsoft-designated replacement for its Microsoft Works product. Starter will be a low-end, free (but ad-supported) bundle of Word and Excel. Based on a Microsoft FAQ(see below), Microsoft Office Starter will not support all formats, it will also be ad-supported. So in t...
Office 2010, Microsoft Works, microsoft IT Blog Have you heard the one about the private cloud? The IT staff took the "Data Center" plaque off the door and replaced it with a "Private Cloud" sign ... oh, and they locked the door too. All kidding aside, "cloud computing" has been a big story this year. But, like most would-be technology revolutio...
IT Blog Knock, knock. Tighten up your tinfoil hat, its going to be a long ride. Conspiracy theorists are acccusing Microsoft of building a secret 'backdoor' into the Windows 7 operating system that will allow Uncle Sam to sneak in without the user's knowledge or permission. The rumor began when it was disc...
Windows 7, NSA, backdoor IT Blog Golden Rule #1 gives what I consider to be the most basic security maxim, one on which I base all of my security practices, so let me repeat: The best security measures are completely useless if you invite attackers into your PCs or networks. Windows users will remember back before Windows XP Serv...
Security, 14 Golden Rules of Computer Security, NAT IT Blog Well its about time the Microsoft is putting some new and useful things into IE9, instead of waiting for Google Chrome or Firefox to implement some cool new feature, then just copy it... here is a statement from Dean Hachamovitch. "This is a direct improvement to everybody's usage of the Web on a da...
IE9, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer IT Blog VMware has finally released the first update to vSphere almost 6 months after the initial release of vSphere in May 2009. Version 4.0 Update 1 delivers many fixes to bugs and issues as well as support for new features, products and operating systems. Perhaps the biggest updates in this release are s...
IT Blog Move over data center, networking has regained its rightful place here at Interop NY this week. Interop was once the networking show, but that ended years ago as the conference tried to become the virtualization show and the data center show to remain relevant. That shift was reflective of an IT i...
Interop, network automation, cloud computing networks IT Blog 10. The intermediate IBM i 6.1.1 version Mark Fontecchio takes a look at IBM i 6.1.1, and answers the question of how well it fills the gap for those waiting for i5/OS. 9. Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely Rick Vanover explains some important adminsitration techniques for user...
IT Blog At the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) this year, Microsoft made headlines with its new "data marketplace," Dallas, and surprised analysts with the announcement that Azure would run virtual machines next year. "Windows Azure's planned support for VMs with administrative access is a big st...
IT Blog The Professional Developers Conference is taking place in Los Angeles this week, and to no surprise, the Microsoft keynotes were all about the cloud. As we heard from Brent Ozar last month, developers are the companys targets for its current and upcoming slate of cloud-based technologies, so what...
Windows server, Cloud Computing IT Blog 10. How to use command line arguments in VBScript via the Wscript.Arguments Object Jerry Lees offers up an indispensible guide for VBScripters. 9. Standard Server 2003 Migration to SBS 2008 Part 3 Roger Crawford's third part of his series on Server 2003 migrations. 8. Success of 64-bit Internet ...
IT Blog Logitech is a name that most people are familiar with. It is a virtual household word when it comes to things like keyboards, mice, PC game controllers, and webcam equipment. Logitech is not a name, however, typically associated with enterprise-class video-conferencing. That is about to change. Log...
Logitech, LifeSize, Microsoft IT Blog While Windows Server 2008 R2 has certainly gotten its fair share of attention over the past year, its hard to argue that it still hasnt been somewhat overshadowed by the hype surrounding Windows 7. After all, even Microsoft has dubbed it Windows 7 Server on occasion. The new server OS...
IT Blog This post was contributed to by Pam Derringer, News Writer On the third anniversary of the 2006 Microsoft-Novell pact, Novell is touting 475 customers who have bought SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates from Microsoft under the settlement. Under the controversial agreement, Novell agreed to give Mic...
IT Blog VMware recently announced that the release of VMware View 4 is slated for later this month which will include a new display protocol called PC-over-IP (PCoIP), which should greatly enhance the user experience. What is PCoIP? PCoIP is a relatively new technology developed by a company called Teradi...
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IT Blog HP made some storage updates today as part of a larger announcement aimed at SMBs looking to cut costs, including new Hyper-V bundles. Storage-related updates include: New application-integrated snapshot option for LeftHand iSCSI SANs.LeftHand already had application-integrated snapshots that s...
Storage and server virtualization, storage vendors, small business storage IT Blog Found this story while surfing the net, seems that the management software for Red Hat's virtualization software needs to be run from a Windows Server, they say that they will have a Linux version ready around 2010, but at the time of this story and for a little while anyways, you will need some sor...
Red Hat Linux, Management software, Virtualization IT Blog Windows 7 is far better than Windows Vista was in terms of driver and application compatibility available when the operating system launched, but many users may still run into issues. Microsoft developed XP Mode virtualiation to bridge the gap and make transitioning easier. On the one hand, most Wi...
Windows 7, Windows XP, XP Mode IT Blog At the Wednesday keynotes we started with Rushabh talking about the PASS financials. Some numbers include: 2010 revenue projection of $3.2M which is a 15% reduction from the 2009 numbers. But even with this reduction PASS is planning on spending 40% more on the SQL Server community. They were...
IT Blog The new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform made its debut yesterday, with Red Hat touting it as a "standalone, lightweight, high-performance hypervisor" that "provides a solid virtualization foundation for cloud deployments" and comes with software "for configuring, provisioning,...
Red Hat, Windows Server 2008, KVM IT Blog The PASS Community Summit 2009 is being held in Seattle this week, and naturally a lot of attention is being given to Microsofts upcoming database releases, particularly SQL Server 2008 R2. Weve been doing a lot of PASS coverage recently, but for those interested, here are some quick hits on...
IT Blog The trash talk in the Microsoft vs. VMware feud once reached Reggie Miller vs. Spike Lee heights. The two companies rarely passed up the opportunity to disparage, make fun of or even spread lies about each other. But things had quieted down lately, and a lot of the more recent trash talk just rehas...
Colin Steele, Hyper-V vs. VMware, cloud computing IT Blog Hi folks! One of the common questions you might find in the virtual world with VMware is how much free space do I leave on a LUN? When is it not enough? A common mistake is to think you only need enough free space for the size of the VM itself and not much more. Well if you do that you'll quickly f...
