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Demystifying the Cloud
In the current technology segment, there is no buzzword used more than ‘the cloud.’ This mystical term conjures up all kinds of thoughts, many of which are most likely inaccurate.
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Remote client IP identification using F5 NLB
Are you struggling to identify the IP traffic source on your servers? When using a F5 NLB at the edge of your network, you won’t be able to identify on your servers where the traffic is coming from. That is unless the protocol can support adding the proper headers to leave a trace of the original IP address. Any traffic received by the server appears to be coming from one of the load balancer IP addresses, which makes it impossible for you to identify the real source of traffic.
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Is Cheap and Unlimited Cloud Storage Bad News?
Everyone can agree, storage quotas for cloud services are increasing very quickly. And this means only one thing: cloud storage is getting dirt-cheap. This is nothing new, as organizations have been getting more and more gigabyte (GB) for their buck in the past months. Some of the industry’s biggest cloud players, like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been engaging in a war on storage. Who will include the biggest quota at the lowest price? And who will cut down prices to low prices we’ve never seen before?
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Mozilla Takes Web Browsing Security to a New Level
Mozilla just released version 36 of its popular web browser Firefox. This new release introduces an important change. Some weak security certificates are no longer trusted by the browser. Why is this of interest? Well it’ll change web browsing for over 20% of web users. That’s one in five!
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Disaster Recovery in a Nutshell: How Does It Work?
Disaster recovery. The IT industry’s latest buzz words. Although a popular subject, many of the articles out there are not providing accurate or enough information to demystify the concept. How does one explain disaster recovery to a SMB owner or an organization’s President without confusing them more than clarifying? Or without boring the hell out of them? Here’s my attempt.
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The 10 Commandments of the Successful Trade Show Attendee
Fasten your seatbelt and make sure your seat is in the upright position. Trade show season is about to take off. Isn’t this exciting? Networking opportunities, cross country trips, new IT trends — you name it. Great investment for organizations. And a great opportunity to make big money. But, this is only true if you make the most of the time you’ll be spending at the shows.
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We deployed Windows 10 on our public cloud – and it was pretty fast!
If you’ve been living under a rock during the last few weeks, you probably haven’t heard about Microsoft’s newest version of its Windows OS. The tech giant has recently made Windows 10 available as a technical preview.
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GC Brieau saves the day with SherWeb’s cloud servers
A little determination goes a long way.
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Outlook for iPhone and Android, brace yourselves for awesome!
I don’t think anyone would argue with me when I say that email is critical to most businesses. When your email works well it’s seamless; you don’t even notice it. Whenever we have to contact a client and they don’t know who we are, it makes me feel good. It means we fit so well into their business practices — our services create so little resistance – that they forget we exist. On the other hand, when it doesn’t work well, business suffers. One of the big ways email can create friction is on mobile devices.
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How to make your IT tech happy? Use safer passwords
IT techs from around the world cringe every time they stumble upon this kind of article. That’s because they get to read about the awful – and *ahem* often shameful – password choices of everyday users.
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What can MSPs gain from linear growth and recurring revenue
We’ve reached it, the critical stage between cloud growth and cloud maturity. And there’s no need to deny that with cloud maturity come great opportunities. Just like Uncle Ben said, right? But more seriously, as a Managed Service Provider (MSP), how can you be sure that adding the cloud to your organization now is right? Did you at all consider the cloud as a more profitable model for your business in 2015?
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Installing SQL 2012 Server for Reporting Server
In my previous post, I walked you through the installation of a SQL 2012 Server. Today, I’ll explain how to install SQL 2012 for Operation Manager Data Warehouse. This long-term data warehouse database is used by the OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Reporting Server. Once SQL installation is completed, we’ll configure the SQL Reporting Services and validate that it’s functioning correctly.
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5 Resolutions You Can’t Afford to Overlook in 2015
A new year is like a blank page. A fresh start with endless possibilities. Which is why most of us begin the year resolving to change for the better in some way or another. A new year is also a chance to look back on the milestones that occurred in the last months. What was achieved? What went wrong? How did things get this way?
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MSPs and IaaS: What to Do in 2015?
There’s no denying it: the cloud industry has reached maturity. And businesses are lining up to make a move to the cloud. According to Gartner, organizations will store 36% of their content in the cloud by 2016, a big jump from the meager 7% they stored in 2011.
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Installing SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server databases are used by over 68% of sites that use one or more database technologies. Surpassed by only Oracle databases, it means most DB admins will have to install or manage SQL servers at one point or another.