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- Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime
- Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Uptime, Allocation, Sanbolic Inc., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Disaster Recovery for the Microsoft Windows Server System, Step-by-Step
- For many, the components of the Microsoft Windows Server Systems have become mission critical systems. This is why almost every organization using these components has implemented some form of high availability to ensure their systems are continuously up and running. This Webcast examines a number of solutions one can use...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, High Availability, XOSoft, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2006-03-09
- Turkish Bank With 437 Branches Centralizes Windows Server System Infrastructure Management
- One of the largest private banks in Turkey - with assets of U.S.$24.4 billion - Garanti has a large IT infrastructure that includes extensive use of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The company's technology subsidiary, Garanti Technology, uses Microsoft Operations Manager MOM...
- Tags: Bank, Infrastructure Management, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Operations Manager Agent, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Data Centers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- Sonasoft: Microsoft Windows Server System Customer Solution Case Study
- Sonasoft creates point-and-click backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Server 2003. The San Jose, California, firm has 20 employees. Data backup and recovery are more important than ever to companies, but tape-based solutions are expensive, cumbersome, and time-draining for busy IT staffs. Sonasoft solutions...
- Tags: Solution, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Corp., Sonasoft, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Information Platform Picks Windows Over UNIX, Cuts Cost 75 Percent, Ensures Growth
- Capital IQ needed to develop its financial information-services platform quickly and cost-effectively to attract first-round investor financing. It rejected Sun and Oracle as too costly and time consuming. Instead, it built its platform - and its business - on Microsoft Windows Server System. The result is a highly sophisticated Web-based...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Global Distributor Improves Customer Service With Integrated E-Commerce System
- A former division of Westinghouse, WESCO works with more than 24,000 suppliers to distribute products to more than 100,000 enterprise customers around the world. In response to increasing customer demands for better, more efficient online ordering, WESCO deployed a flexible, tightly integrated e-commerce solution built on Microsoft Windows Server System....
- Tags: Customer Service, Distributor, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Customer, Microsoft Corp., E-business, Web Technology, Microsoft Windows, E-business/E-Commerce, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies
- Enhanced Manageability Helps Entertainment Venue Operator Cut Support Calls by 50 Percent and TCO by 25 Percent
- GameWorks improved the manageability and supportability of its IT infrastructure by deploying Microsoft Windows Server System integrated server software. Centralized desktop management using Active Directory prevents users from installing unauthorized software, resulting in a 50 percent decrease in help desk calls and an 80 percent reduction in system rebuilds. Built-in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Help Desk, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, It Operations, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Siemens Manages 417,000 Users With Windows Server System, Saves Millions of Dollars Annually
- A few years ago, Siemens supported its business with 1,000 domains in a highly decentralized structure. It wanted a single, centralized Active Directory to streamline user management, e-mail, and collaboration. Siemens was also developing an Entitlement Architecture based on a Siemens DirX solution for its corporatewide Identity Management infrastructure. Siemens...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Siemens AG, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Leading Workflow Software Developer Significantly Reduces Development Time
- SourceCode Technology Holdings SCTH is a global leader in developing enterprise business process management software on the Microsoft .NET Framework to enable its customers to rapidly design, implement, manage, track, and improve workflow processes. K2.net was developed on the .NET Framework using the Microsoft Visual Studio development system and integrates...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Corp., Workflow Software, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Servers, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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Additional Resources
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
- The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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