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We’ll trade you an Xbox 360 for your knowledge!
The holidays are approaching and so is your next chance to win an Xbox 360 by simply doing what you do around IT Knowledge Exchange. Between today and December 15th, the three members who accumulate the most knowledge points will win some great prizes: 1st Prize: Xbox 360 with 250GB hard drive & Kinect [...]
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| December 1, 2010 3:12 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, Contests, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, IT answers, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server, XBOX Contest
The holidays are approaching and so is your next chance to win an Xbox 360 by simply doing what you do around IT Knowledge Exchange. Between today and December 15th, the three members who accumulate the most knowledge points will win some great prizes: 1st Prize: Xbox 360 with 250GB hard drive & Kinect [...]
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| December 1, 2010 3:12 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, Contests, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, IT answers, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server, XBOX Contest
Intel’s Open Port IT Scavenger Hunt has launched: Win a laptop and other great prizes.
Think you’ve got the smarts to navigate Intel’s Open Port community for answers to questions about Intel products? You could win a brand new 2010 Core vPro-based laptop, among other prizes. If you’re an IT Knowledge Exchange member, we’ll also give you 200 bonus Knowledge Points and send you a free sticker just for participating. [...]
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| February 18, 2010 11:14 PM
AS/400, Contests, Exchange, Giveaways, Intel Open Port, ITKE, ITKE Contests, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Security, SQL Server
Think you’ve got the smarts to navigate Intel’s Open Port community for answers to questions about Intel products? You could win a brand new 2010 Core vPro-based laptop, among other prizes. If you’re an IT Knowledge Exchange member, we’ll also give you 200 bonus Knowledge Points and send you a free sticker just for participating. [...]
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| February 18, 2010 11:14 PM
AS/400, Contests, Exchange, Giveaways, Intel Open Port, ITKE, ITKE Contests, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Security, SQL Server
Poweredge 2800 W2K3 Repair loop
Experts, We have an issue with a server that crashed and we attempted a repair of the Windows 2003 installation but we keep going round in a loop. Error we get is: “Setup was unable to access files needed to continue. This could be caused by an error in the CD media or the CD [...]
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| March 6, 2010 11:58 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2800, Knowledge Point Challenge, PowerEdge servers, Windows Server 2003
Experts, We have an issue with a server that crashed and we attempted a repair of the Windows 2003 installation but we keep going round in a loop. Error we get is: “Setup was unable to access files needed to continue. This could be caused by an error in the CD media or the CD [...]
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| March 6, 2010 11:58 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2800, Knowledge Point Challenge, PowerEdge servers, Windows Server 2003
Answer a “Cloud Computing in 2010″ question, earn 200 bonus Knowledge Points
If you think you can answer one of our Cloud Computing in 2010 questions, there’s never been a better time to act — provide the first quality answer to any unanswered question with this tag, and we’ll give you 200 bonus Knowledge Points. It could be just what you need to nudge into our Nexus [...]
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| February 11, 2010 6:25 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Nexus One
If you think you can answer one of our Cloud Computing in 2010 questions, there’s never been a better time to act — provide the first quality answer to any unanswered question with this tag, and we’ll give you 200 bonus Knowledge Points. It could be just what you need to nudge into our Nexus [...]
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| February 11, 2010 6:25 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Nexus One
Scaling Amazon Web Services against RDS
Any recommendations for scaling multiple application server instances in Amazon Web Services against Amazon’s Relational Database Service? For example, if you had multiple tomcat instances running, should they each also have a slave that talks to the RDS master? Or let them all connect to RDS?
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| February 10, 2010 3:42 PM
Amazon AWS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Web services, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Scaling Out, Virtualization
Any recommendations for scaling multiple application server instances in Amazon Web Services against Amazon’s Relational Database Service? For example, if you had multiple tomcat instances running, should they each also have a slave that talks to the RDS master? Or let them all connect to RDS?
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| February 10, 2010 3:42 PM
Amazon AWS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Web services, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Scaling Out, Virtualization
How can one keep data secure with cloud computing
A large company is working on a new project that requires cloud computing. If they utilize their private network they can reasonably assume their data to be secure, given that all protocols with remote access are followed or the private network does not allow remote access.
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| December 16, 2011 8:21 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud computing security, Knowledge Point Challenge, Security
A large company is working on a new project that requires cloud computing. If they utilize their private network they can reasonably assume their data to be secure, given that all protocols with remote access are followed or the private network does not allow remote access.
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| December 16, 2011 8:21 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud computing security, Knowledge Point Challenge, Security
HIPPA audit on virtual network
I’m hoping to find a solid, inexpensive network auditing tool for virtual networks as prep for a HIPPA compliance audit. Does anyone have suggestions of open source or pay tools they’d recommend? Do I need to pull in an outside party for this?
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| March 9, 2010 6:48 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, HIPAA, Knowledge Point Challenge, Virtual networking
I’m hoping to find a solid, inexpensive network auditing tool for virtual networks as prep for a HIPPA compliance audit. Does anyone have suggestions of open source or pay tools they’d recommend? Do I need to pull in an outside party for this?
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| March 9, 2010 6:48 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, HIPAA, Knowledge Point Challenge, Virtual networking
SOAP an answers to ERP nightmares?
ERP isn’t the prettiest of processes, so I’m curious about whether people think that more web services using standards like SOAP mean a brighter future down the road when it comes to enterprise planning? IF the data is all nice and tidily exportable, will implementation and revision become easier and ERP deployments cheaper, or is [...]
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| February 10, 2010 9:56 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, ERP, Knowledge Point Challenge, SOAP
ERP isn’t the prettiest of processes, so I’m curious about whether people think that more web services using standards like SOAP mean a brighter future down the road when it comes to enterprise planning? IF the data is all nice and tidily exportable, will implementation and revision become easier and ERP deployments cheaper, or is [...]
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| February 10, 2010 9:56 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, ERP, Knowledge Point Challenge, SOAP
Energy metrics for X-as-a-Service and cloud offerings?
What, if any, metrics are software-as-a-service and storage-as-a-service vendors providing when it comes to electrical consumption? My company’s “green” policies have some guidelines about our vendors, but outsourced IT seems to be a black box right now. Some companies, particularly storage providers, have been more forthcoming than others, but I’m wondering if others have run [...]
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| February 12, 2010 5:25 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, SaaS, Storage, storage as a service
What, if any, metrics are software-as-a-service and storage-as-a-service vendors providing when it comes to electrical consumption? My company’s “green” policies have some guidelines about our vendors, but outsourced IT seems to be a black box right now. Some companies, particularly storage providers, have been more forthcoming than others, but I’m wondering if others have run [...]
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| February 12, 2010 5:25 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, SaaS, Storage, storage as a service
Monitoring *aaS deployments for SLA requirements
What are you using to monitor cloud/*aaS deployments to make sure vendors meet their SLA? Right now, we have a few SaaS applications deployed, and while uptime is somewhat easier to check, how do we determine latency fault and under-performance? Also, if we move into storage as a service, any monitoring tips there? Thanks.
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| February 10, 2010 3:30 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Performance indicators, SLA, software as a service (SaaS), storage as a service
What are you using to monitor cloud/*aaS deployments to make sure vendors meet their SLA? Right now, we have a few SaaS applications deployed, and while uptime is somewhat easier to check, how do we determine latency fault and under-performance? Also, if we move into storage as a service, any monitoring tips there? Thanks.
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| February 10, 2010 3:30 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, Performance indicators, SLA, software as a service (SaaS), storage as a service
Migrating Microsoft Exchange to a cloud or hosted service
I am in a quandary and wanted some useful input on what will surely be, in the not too distant future, a very seamless and straightforward process. How can one seamlessly and intelligently migrate an in-house Exchange environment to a cloud/hosted based service? In short I have facilitated a number of migrations now and each [...]
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| February 10, 2010 3:59 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Exchange migration, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Exchange, Migrations and upgrades
I am in a quandary and wanted some useful input on what will surely be, in the not too distant future, a very seamless and straightforward process. How can one seamlessly and intelligently migrate an in-house Exchange environment to a cloud/hosted based service? In short I have facilitated a number of migrations now and each [...]
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| February 10, 2010 3:59 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Exchange migration, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Exchange, Migrations and upgrades
Service Level Agreements (SLA) for cloud computing services
Can anybody enlighten me about what kinds of things are in a real SLA for a cloud? I’m primarily interested in performance and availability. My reason for asking: A research group I’m becoming affiliated with has a neat technique for optimally scheduling tasks to provide realistic guarantees on completion. The nice part is that they [...]
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| February 10, 2010 1:52 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud Services, Knowledge Point Challenge, Service Level Agreement
Can anybody enlighten me about what kinds of things are in a real SLA for a cloud? I’m primarily interested in performance and availability. My reason for asking: A research group I’m becoming affiliated with has a neat technique for optimally scheduling tasks to provide realistic guarantees on completion. The nice part is that they [...]
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| February 10, 2010 1:52 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud Services, Knowledge Point Challenge, Service Level Agreement
Setting up an Amazon EC2 VPN network
I’d like to set up a VPN network across Amazon’s EC2, across both the US and Europe and my own network over IPSEC. Does anyone have experience setting up VPN on EC2, and any points to make it work well?
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| February 10, 2010 1:22 PM
Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, VPN, VPN design, VPN on EC2
I’d like to set up a VPN network across Amazon’s EC2, across both the US and Europe and my own network over IPSEC. Does anyone have experience setting up VPN on EC2, and any points to make it work well?
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| February 10, 2010 1:22 PM
Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing in 2010, Knowledge Point Challenge, VPN, VPN design, VPN on EC2
Securing the cloud: Is IDS passe?
It used to be a good design to not only run applications in different tiers, but also physically separate them on different network switches. Network devices have since improved (security wise) and some folks seem to be alright with virtual switches. And then came the cloud infrastructure where security is mostly limited to host based [...]
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| March 2, 2010 1:01 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud Security, Knowledge Point Challenge
It used to be a good design to not only run applications in different tiers, but also physically separate them on different network switches. Network devices have since improved (security wise) and some folks seem to be alright with virtual switches. And then came the cloud infrastructure where security is mostly limited to host based [...]
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| March 2, 2010 1:01 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing in 2010, Cloud Security, Knowledge Point Challenge
Knowledge Point Challenge: Ask a question, tweet it out, earn 100 Knowledge Points
We’ve recently rolled out a new “Tweet” feature on our questions and blog posts (see below). To celebrate, we’ll give 100 extra Knowledge Points to the first IT Knowledge Exchange member who asks a question then tweets it out using the “Tweet” button. Good luck!
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| January 28, 2010 5:30 PM
Giveaways, ITKE, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Nexus One
We’ve recently rolled out a new “Tweet” feature on our questions and blog posts (see below). To celebrate, we’ll give 100 extra Knowledge Points to the first IT Knowledge Exchange member who asks a question then tweets it out using the “Tweet” button. Good luck!
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| January 28, 2010 5:30 PM
Giveaways, ITKE, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Nexus One
Process documentation
I need a tool (affordable!) for documenting complex processes. The processes are custom, customer-specific and may be both administrative and technical in nature. The idea is to have documentation that follows the incident process – showing questions to ask and actions to take (dependent upon the answers). The documentation should present the processes in a way that can be [...]
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| February 1, 2010 11:23 PM
Help Desk, Incident management, Knowledge Point Challenge, process documentation
I need a tool (affordable!) for documenting complex processes. The processes are custom, customer-specific and may be both administrative and technical in nature. The idea is to have documentation that follows the incident process – showing questions to ask and actions to take (dependent upon the answers). The documentation should present the processes in a way that can be [...]
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| February 1, 2010 11:23 PM
Help Desk, Incident management, Knowledge Point Challenge, process documentation
Voice VLAN over Telco Bridge
I have two vlans going over a Telco Bridge to 5 locations each with one SIP Phone. The main location has an shdsl of 2mbs and each location has a speed of 512kbps. I can’t get all locations to work together only 2 locations at a time. What could be the problem? Any help is [...]
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| January 29, 2010 3:51 PM
ip phone, IP phone configuration, Knowledge Point Challenge, sip phone, VLAN, VoIP
I have two vlans going over a Telco Bridge to 5 locations each with one SIP Phone. The main location has an shdsl of 2mbs and each location has a speed of 512kbps. I can’t get all locations to work together only 2 locations at a time. What could be the problem? Any help is [...]
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| January 29, 2010 3:51 PM
ip phone, IP phone configuration, Knowledge Point Challenge, sip phone, VLAN, VoIP
how do you ensure EWS is installed and enabled in SBS2008/Exchange 2007
BlackBerry Internet Service cannot connect to an Outlook Web Access Account using Microsoft Exchange 2007 I can use OWA and login via https://remote.company.com/owa however in speaking with RIM technical support they say the issue is with EWS component is required to be active on the Microsoft Exchange Server? The server has self assigned certificate IIS [...]
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| February 12, 2010 1:01 AM
BlackBerry Internet Service, EWS, Exchange 2007, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Small Business Server, Outlook Web Access, OWA, SBS 2008
BlackBerry Internet Service cannot connect to an Outlook Web Access Account using Microsoft Exchange 2007 I can use OWA and login via https://remote.company.com/owa however in speaking with RIM technical support they say the issue is with EWS component is required to be active on the Microsoft Exchange Server? The server has self assigned certificate IIS [...]
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| February 12, 2010 1:01 AM
BlackBerry Internet Service, EWS, Exchange 2007, Knowledge Point Challenge, Microsoft Small Business Server, Outlook Web Access, OWA, SBS 2008
Modular vs traditional UPS design
We are planning to build a 3500 sq foot data center. One of the options we’re looking at is building out the data center in 3 stages, using APC modular UPS and Liebert modular cooling (in addition to the usual CRAC). We’re not concerned about the modular cooling, as we know we’ll need to due [...]
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| February 18, 2010 6:38 PM
APC, Data Center, Data center design, Data Center Layout, Knowledge Point Challenge, UPS
We are planning to build a 3500 sq foot data center. One of the options we’re looking at is building out the data center in 3 stages, using APC modular UPS and Liebert modular cooling (in addition to the usual CRAC). We’re not concerned about the modular cooling, as we know we’ll need to due [...]
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| February 18, 2010 6:38 PM
APC, Data Center, Data center design, Data Center Layout, Knowledge Point Challenge, UPS
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