How to use Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012
Posted in The 'How to' Blog by FirebrandInstructors on 2013-06-19 15:59:39

By Edward Jones
In this article, we will look at another new feature in Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Replica. First thing you need to know, it’s like sheep, in the sense that for the plural you don’t add an s on the end. I felt pretty foolish bandying about the term ‘hyper-v replicas’ only…READ MORE

Quick and Dirty on how to kill a VM in ESXi 5.x
Posted in The Real (and Virtual) Adventures of Nathan the IT Guy by Nathan Simon on 2013-06-19 13:39:04

The scenario, you have a VM that is stuck running because it cannot find its VMX file. Don’t ask me Site Recovery Manager messed that one up!

I need that VM off and unregistered.

So here is how you do it!

Use putty or got to the physical console command line.

Login with root or anot…READ MORE

"IT Certification Watch" is Back!
Posted in IT Career JumpStart by Ed Tittel on 2013-06-19 13:25:45

For over a decade, one of my favorite sources of IT certification news and info has been Anne Martinez’ excellent GoCertify.com website. In addition, she has published a great monthly newsletter called “IT Certification Watch” over most of that interval as well. But last fall, I noticed that the new…READ MORE

USB 3.0 Makes a Big Difference
Posted in Windows Enterprise Desktop by Ed Tittel on 2013-06-19 09:11:52

When I bought two Lenovo notebooks last year — a T520 and an X220 Tablet — one of my regrets was that I had to buy immediately and couldn’t wait for the USB 3.0 versions of those models to become available. Last week I learned that my regrets were well-founded. Thanks to the Mushkin Ventura Pro 6…READ MORE

Enterprise Approach to IT Deployment
Posted in Information Technology Management with a Purpose by S R Balasubramanian on 2013-06-19 01:22:26

Use of IT in organizations is all pervasive. IT penetrates into every function and most users are dependent on IT systems in one way or another. It is not only large corporations today but the small and medium sector that are impacted by IT. Deployment and usage however differ from one organization …READ MORE

Concerned About Gov’t. Snooping? There’s an app for that
Posted in The Business-Technology Weave by David Scott on 2013-06-17 13:20:58

Regardless of the challenge or topic, folks often joke:  There’s an app for that!
Need a date?  “There’s an app for that.”
Hungry… bored… need a plumber… need an airplane mechanic… ?
“There’s an app for that.”
Concerned about government spying?  Someone peering into your…READ MORE

Google Loon: The Most Massive Business Project By Google
Posted in Quality Assurance and Project Management by Jaideep Khanduja on 2013-06-17 21:51:04

Google Loon is Google’s one of the most precious projects so far as far as its width and breadth is concerned. Project Loon is about an assemblage of balloons that will float in the atmosphere above 50 km of the earth’s surface. These balloons will appear like mini satellites floating at a low range…READ MORE

The Cloud's People Challenge
Posted in Clouds Ahead by Pedro Pereira on 2012-01-03 13:26:34

Hitching your IT wagon to the cloud carries organization and personnel implications. This means the deployment of a cloud-based environment requires doing new things that are bound to cause initial discomfort.
This is certainly the case if you are one of those organizations with a sprawling IT depa…READ MORE

Government-Audit Convergence Part III
Posted in IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance by Robert Davis on 2013-06-17 01:31:57

Professional prudence dictates legal mandates impacting IT-IAP audit practice areas should be thoroughly understood by audit team members prior to proceeding with fieldwork. Specifically, IT auditors “should review compliance with applicable statutory laws, regulations as well as contracts and, wh…READ MORE

Apple finally commits to the cloud
Posted in View From Above by Ron Miller on 2013-06-11 08:36:18

Up until the WWDC keynote this week, I was convinced that Apple simply didn’t understand the cloud or how to use it to share content conveniently across devices, but they surprised me on Monday with new ways to bridge the gap between iOS and OSX.

Among the changes you’ll see when you upgrade …READ MORE

Really Good (but Cheap) Coffee Makers
Posted in Cheap Computing by Robin "Roblimo" Miller on 2013-06-14 17:08:55

I don’t know about you, but before *I* go near that keyboard I need my coffee. And the better the coffee, the better I work, so I recently went on a coffee maker research binge. My venerable (and not exactly cheap) Cuisinart drip machine was starting to get a little worn out. I’d had it so long that…READ MORE

Should Cloud Management be delivered as a SaaS application?
Posted in From Silos to Services: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise by Brian Gracely on 2013-06-14 10:09:38

At times I’m a little bit disjointed in how I collect and process information. A nugget here, a news story there, and then a comment to tie together a few fleeting thoughts.

A few weeks ago, Dell acquired Enstratius. They make excellent software for managing and governing multiple cloud environme…READ MORE

Video: Protection through distraction?
Posted in Security Corner by Ken Harthun on 2013-06-14 13:06:40

Hey, it’s Funny Friday! And I have a very funny video for you (if you consider British dry humour funny – I do). How about distracting hackers from stealing information by titillating them with erotic romance? This was an April Fool’s joke from Sophos in 2010. Watch and enjoy and have a great weeken…READ MORE

One way IT can drive cash flow
Posted in Modern Network Architecture by James Murray on 2013-06-12 17:19:04

As a consultant, I find a strange paradigm in the IT departments.  We all work on a mission critical aspect of the business.  Yet most business owners and managers almost ignore the IT department.  When I work with IT departments I’ve also noticed that IT Experts seem to ignore the business owner…READ MORE

Snowden NSA Case Points Up Security Flaws in Thumb Drives
Posted in Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery by Sharon Fisher on 2013-06-13 14:18:27

Whether you believe Edward Snowden is a traitor or a hero, one thing is clear: the federal government is still apparently clueless when it comes to thumb drive security.

Word is that Snowden — as well as Bradley Manning before him, three years ago – downloaded information onto a thumb drive th…READ MORE

Scripting Games - what’s wrong with this
Posted in PowerShell for Windows Admins by Richard Siddaway on 2013-06-12 15:31:32

I noticed code like this in quite a few entries in for Event 1

Get-ChildItem -path C:\Application\log -Recurse -Filter *.log | Where-Object{$_.LastWriteTime -lt [DateTime]::Now.Subtract([TimeSpan]::FromDays(90))} | ForEach-Object {…}

From the title it should be obvious that there’s somethi…READ MORE

Book excerpt: MySQL (5th Edition)
Posted in IT Bookworm Blog by Michael Tidmarsh on 2013-06-12 15:22:41

This chapter is from the new 5th Ed. of “MySQL”, authored by Paul DuBois, published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional, April 2013, ISBN 0321833872, Copyright 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/store/mysql-9780321833877
Using SQL…READ MORE

Making the Most Of Your Expertise
Posted in Unchartered Waters by Matt Heusser on 2013-06-10 14:45:11

If you invest 10,000 hours in deliberate practice — not just doing the job, but doing it mindfully,  then you might just wake up one morning and find yourself an expert.

At least, that is one of the major themes in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, and it makes sense to me.

It doesn’t really…READ MORE

SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition High Availability
Posted in SQL Server with Mr. Denny by Denny Cherry on 2013-06-10 12:00:00

With all the announcements about SQL Server 2014 this last week there have been a lot of questions about what’s going to happen for SQL Server 2014 and the non-shared storage High Availability options as we are now one step closer to database mirroring being removed from the product.  You’l…READ MORE

Chrome's Browser Based Gaming
Posted in Developing Clouds by Michelle Greenlee on 2013-05-31 23:16:32

The future of gaming is now and it’s only available on Google Chrome, not Microsoft Internet Explorer, not Mozilla Firefox. In my last post, I wrote about combining multiple Google Cloud Platform services to create scalable cross-platform games. Google is not only betting on the future of cloud base…READ MORE