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IT Knowledge Exchange Upgrade – Downtime Expected 12/8

ITKE — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:53:50 +0000

In attempt to continue upgrading IT Knowledge Exchange’s capabilities, features and speed, we will be completing a server move from hosted to in-house. This move will support the continuous growth that we’re experiencing in traffic and activity–all thanks to your efforts!

This move will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 8, 2010, after 5pm EST. You should experience a couple hours of downtime, but don’t worry because we’ll be back and better than before!

If you have any questions or notice anything strange, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Live VMWare Expert Chat on 10/26: Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications (sponsor post)

EmNichs — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:54:01 +0000

VMware vSphere runs business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, Oracle and SAP, with breakthrough performance and outstanding reliability. Many VMware customers are now virtualizing large Tier 1 applications to consolidate their x86 infrastructure and minimize infrastructure costs.

On October 26 from 11am-2pm EST, this 2-part live chat with VMware experts, will teach you about application performance considerations, best practices and use cases for deploying Tier 1 applications on VMware.

Click here for a reminder email for this 2-part live chat.

Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications Speakers:

Gaetan Castelein, Group Product Marketing Manager at VMWare
Shruti Bhat, Product Marketing Manager at VMWare
Scott Salyer, Lead Architect – Microsoft Solutions
Alex Fontana, Technical Solutions Architect – Microsoft Solutions
Wanda He, Technical Solutions Architect- Microsoft Applications

Join us for the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’10) on 10/4-6

EmNichs — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:41:13 +0000

The 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’10) will take place October 4-6, 2010, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Join us for OSDI ’10, the premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. This year’s program has been expanded to include 32 high-quality papers in areas including cloud storage, production networks, concurrency bugs, deterministic parallelism, as well as a poster session. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with researchers and professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds to discuss innovative, exciting work in the systems area.

Who says ‘second place is the first loser?’

EmNichs — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:34:44 +0000

…Not IT Knowledge Exchange!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Xbox 360 contest. We randomly withdrew 5 names from our top 10 contributors list and came up with the following winners:

The 2 Xbox 360 Slims went to Mattmather and RichS
The 3 $50 Amazon.com gift cards went to Carlosdl, Mrdenny, and Technochic

Congratulations to the winners! The rest of you, keep asking questions and provide feedback in the 2010 ITKE Member Survey, and you’ll continue to earn points. You never know when they’ll come in handy!

-Em

New Contest: “Freebie Fridays”

EmNichs — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:34:35 +0000

At IT Knowledge Exchange, we’re ambitious. We want to have the biggest and best IT Answers Community out there! Our plan is to provide everyone with the answers they need to be the best they can at their job.

That’s why we’ve created a new weekly contest called ‘Freebie Fridays.’ Every Friday we will be posting a freebie of the week in the Community Blog that you can win, simply by answering unanswered questions. The blog post will detail the rules for that Friday’s contest and highlight the 3 winners. You’ll see a link to the blog post on twitter as well as a link in the “What’s New” box on the homepage.

So let’s get started…

Freebie Friday, July 16, 2010:
The first 3 ITKE members before 3:00 pm ET to answer 3 unanswered questions and to either re-tweet them with the tag #itkefreebiefriday and @ITKE or post the links to those 3 questions in the comment section of this blog post will receive a t-shirt or 50 knowledge points.

Clock starts now…4:00:00

Sponsor Post: July’s Upcoming Microsoft Live Chats

EmNichs — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:44:59 +0000

Join IT Knowledge Exchange and Microsoft for these Upcoming Live Expert Chats
Today’s workforce faces a constantly evolving landscape of threats to information and infrastructure—and even to regulatory compliance. Endpoints are exposed to attacks both inside and outside the corporate firewall, resulting in lost productivity and real financial losses at businesses worldwide.

Microsoft Business Ready Security – Secure Endpoint
Join us on July 13th from 11:00am-2:00pm EDT for Microsoft Forefront – Are Your Endpoints Secured? to learn how Microsoft Forefront solutions protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling more secure access from virtually anywhere. Click here for a reminder email for this expert live chat.

Microsoft Business Ready Security – Identity and Access Management
Join us on July 20th from 11:00am-2:00pm EDT for Identity Access Management: Is your IT Infrastructure Secure? During this live chat you’ll learn about Microsoft’s solution to enable more secure, identity-based access to applications, both on-premises and in the cloud. Click here for a reminder email for this expert live chat.

We hope to have you there!

-Em

New Contest: Your Chance to Win a New Xbox 360

EmNichs — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:36:58 +0000

Now through the end of July, you can show off your IT skills while earning the points to win a newly released Xbox 360.

From today (June 16th) through July 30th, you have a chance to win 1 of 2 newly released Xbox 360s. The 10 community members who have earned the most Knowledge Points during the contest period will be entered into a raffle to win one of the Xbox 360s or 1 of 3 $50 Amazon Gift Cards.

To get you started, we will give you 250 Knowledge Points for answering this survey. The survey is to help us improve ITKnowledgeExchange.com so tell us what you do and don’t like about the community.

When you’re done, start asking and answering questions. The time you spend now, won’t compare to the hours you’ll spend vaporizing zombies if you’re the winner. You can find unanswered questions here.

Some important details:
* This contest is only open to members in the following countries or regions: United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Western Europe.
* All answers, discussion and questions will be reviewed for validity.

Best of Luck!
Em

Congratulations to the Intel Open Port Scavenger Hunt Winners

EmNichs — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:49 +0000

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Intel Open Port Scavenger Hunt, we hope you had fun and learned something new. A special congratulations to our winners:

Aguacer0 has hit a lucky streak, taking home the grand prize of the Dell Precision T7500 Tower Workstation Desktop Computer with the Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor.

Carlosdl goes home the winner of a $100 Amazon Gift Card.

jmorris74 takes the $50 Amazon Gift Card.

labnuke99 won the $25 Amazon Gift Card.

Thanks again to everyone who participated. Keep the contributions coming, you never know who will be the next big winner.

-Emily
Community Manager

Live Chat on 6/1: Drive Your Business Forward with SharePoint 2010 (sponsor post)

EmNichs — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:54 +0000

SharePoint 2010 allows your company to quickly respond to changing business needs. Your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs and find the right business information to drive your business forward.

The next Microsoft Live Chat, Drive Your Business Forward with SharePoint 2010, takes place on Tuesday, June 1 at 11 am ET. Sign up for a day of email reminder.

I hope you’ll join us.
Emily

Add your picture and bio to your profile and you could win an iPad

EmNichs — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:28:07 +0000

If you haven’t filled out your profile and added your picture, do it now and you could win an iPad. Once you’ve added your picture and filled out your profile, add a comment to this post to let me know and I’ll give you 100 Knowledge Points.

Increase your chances of winning by

5 Points: Asking a Question
10 Points: Discussing a Question
10 Points: Accepting an Answer
15 Points: Answering a Question
100 Points: Retweeting the Scavenger Hunt
200 Points: Completing the Intel Open Port IT Scavenger Hunt

Good luck!