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Computer to computer VPN over Internet with Windows server 2003

NewnanIT — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:22:16 +0000

We want to create a computer to computer vpn over the Internet between two Windows 2003 servers how can we achieve this where all communications between the two machines go through the vpn tunnel?

Open IT Forum: What cloud questions do you want answered?

MelanieYarbrough — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:58:41 +0000

I’m heading to Interop next week in New York to rub elbows with all the big names in tech. From marrying the public and private cloud to assessing whether cloud security risk is overstated, I’ll be absorbing the latest analyses of trends and announcements in the cloud.

What do you want to know? Leave the questions you want answered most in the discussion area or send me an email, and I’ll address them when I interview speakers at the conference.

Are you planning to attend Interop New York? I’d love to meet some members and chat about the conference!

IT Book Giveaway: Unified Communications for Dummies

MelanieYarbrough — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:24:24 +0000

This week’s free IT book giveaway, Unified Communications for Dummies, will help you find out how to make communication effective, global and available through multiple technologies seamlessly. Want it? Simply answer one of the questions provided here, then leave a link to your answer in the discussion area below. Answering multiple questions gives you multiple chances to win!

Meeting IT’s Server SLA Obligations

Setting up a large home network with Belkin routers

Windows Server 2008 R2 Restoring backup

Random Exchange store outage

Where are you in the Cloud and SaaS?

Good luck! Excited to see your answers. Winner will be announced this Friday.

Virtualizing four servers on one box

NewnanIT — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:17:59 +0000

We want to virtualize 4 servers on one box. Where should we begin? How do we tell what virtualization platform to run with?

Open IT Forum: Where are you in the cloud or SaaS?

MelanieYarbrough — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:17:39 +0000

We’re curious as to how your company is approaching cloud computing and SaaS. Are you using it for non-mission-critical tasks with an isolated workload or for business processes such as HR or accounting? Do you have a public or private cloud? A hybrid?

Let us know how you’re adopting the cloud and various services, and we’ll give you 100 knowledge points! Answer by next Wednesday, October 13th, and you may get your pick of our IT library.

Exchange in a cloud environment?

Johnima — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:40:31 +0000

I have a small 2 person business. Outlook is integral to us, my partner uses Office 10, I have Office 07. We have each purchased an new android phone. We would like to sync Outlook with our new phones regularly. We do not use a server in our business. Can I get Exchange in a cloud environment affordably? Does anyone use this type of application? Do we both need to be on the same version of Office?

Benefits/disadvantages of hosting SQL server on site versus MySQL in cloud?

NewnanIT — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:14:41 +0000

What are the benefits or disadvantages of hosting a SQL server on site or using a MYSQL server in the cloud? The MYSQL box is much cheaper is there anything I will not be able to do with my web app using MYSQL?

Weaknesses of Cloud Computing

ITKE — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:03:47 +0000

I know there is a lot of buzz around cloud computing, but the weaknesses seem to get no press. My greatest concerns are encryption and key management. What are the other downsides you’ve discovered?

Business Intelligence in a cloud environment

ITKE — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:49:14 +0000

Wondering if anyone has had experience with business intelligence (BI) as a service, or vice versa, using BI with cloud services. Is it tricky to sync data correctly between on and off premise? Any major vendors out there have a good mastery of this sort of practice?

Thanks for any advice.

Which platform for a private/hybrid cloud?

ITKE — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:29:40 +0000

My company is looking to deploy a private cloud, and we’ve been considering Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, Nimbus, vSphere, abiCloud and Joyent.

I’m very interested in Eucalyptus and OpenNebula, since they are both open source, they have many features, they both support Amazon EC2 and Amazon APIs and they seem to be able to work with different hypervisors, such as KVM, Xen, VMWare ESXi, etc. Eucalyptus seem to be very supported by Canonical, because it’s a part of Ubuntu Server, so I bet it will grow more and more, and we have a good experience with Linux and in particular Ubuntu. On the other hand, many people told me that right now OpenNebula is better. So the question is: which one between Eucalyptus and OpenNebula? The other three choices? vSphere is probably free (if we use ESXi and not ESX) but it’s not open… abiCloud seems to be similar to Eucalyptus and OpenNebula… about Joyent, many people say very good things, but I want to know more, and then, is it open source?

After having built the private cloud, we probably want to also use an external service and create an hybrid cloud. If for private cloud we chose OpenNebula,Eucalyptus, abiCloud or Nimbus I guess the best thing is to use Amazon EC2. Is it also possible to use VMWare solution? And if we chose abiCloud or Joyent, what can we use to create an hybrid cloud? About Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine, it seems to me they have many limitations, so I’m not considering them. What do you think about them?