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- Investigate virtualization in Windows Server 2008
- Typically, a server OS delivers multiple applications serving a variable number of customers, whose business of management requires communication with any number of other servers. Allocating power to application-serving resources up to now has been a matter of finding or building the right processor box for the job. With Virtualization...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, informIT, Scott Fulton, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage
- Download resources 2007-11-02
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- A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma
- This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...
- Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Refurbished servers - good deal or something to avoid?
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, a CIO at Westminster College in Fulton, MO, explains how refurbished servers might help you stretch your budget dollars. You can find more posts like this at TechRepublic's Servers and Storage blog. Although the economy is not exactly in great shape these...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Equipment, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole
- A little more than a year ago, Sebastian Krahmer posted a question on the Dailydave security mailing list whether Vista's speech recognition was exploitable or not via malicious sound files that could be hosted on websites. I was the first to answer his call with some initial skepticism...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Bottom Line, Speech Recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- See how Windows Server 2008 demonstrates the evolutionary principle applied to software
- In this InformIT article, Scott Fulton continues his technical survey of the ten most important changes to Windows Server 2008 by discussing a group of three services that demonstrate the evolutionary principle applied to software: clean service shutdown, Kernel Transaction Manager, and Server Message Block Version 2. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, informIT, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Download resources 2007-11-02
- Explore Address Space Load Randomization and Windows Hardware Error Architecture in Windows Server 2008
- In this InformIT article, Scott Fulton discusses the concept of Address Space Load Randomization ASLR and how this works in Windows Server 2008. In addition, the article covers Windows Hardware Error Architecture WHEA, a standard protocol whereby attached hardware registers problems with the operating system, sending an alert...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, informIT, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Download resources 2007-11-02
- Get to know two of the most important new features in Windows Server 2008: The self-healing NTFS file system and parallel session creation
- Finally, Microsoft demonstrates its recognition of the proper role of a server operating system via a myriad of architectural changes in Microsoft Server 2008. Learn about two of the changes that may have the greatest impact on enterprises: the self-healing NTFS file system and parallel session creation. ...
- Tags: NTFS, Microsoft Windows Server, informIT, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Download resources 2007-11-02
- Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO
- The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 "fine" (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements. The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper PDF where it recommends a ban on OS Operating System bundling for...
- Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Free Trade, Productivity, Software, Finance, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- MS OneCare nukes MS Outlook data!
- Microsofts OneCare has had a rough start in the Anti-Virus market with a recent poor showing in an AV shootout. If that wasnt bad enough, the engine component of OneCare was ironically the first serious remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Vista though Trend Micro beat them to the...
- Tags: Groupware, OneCare, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Disagreement over impact of Vista's analog hole
- Since my initial report on the Vista analog hole and getting confirmation of the flaw from Microsoft, Microsofts MSRC blog downplayed the significance of this exploit and said that there was "there is little if any need to worry about the effects of this issue on your new Windows Vista...
- Tags: Browsers, Desktop, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, News, Security, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- What if Jim Allchin is right about no AV on Vista?
- Scott M. Fulton, III wrote this very thoughtful piece about "Vista, Antivirus: What If Allchins Right?" Fulton was the man responsible for all the flurry recently about Jim Allchin implying that Vista may not need anti-virus because he ran no Anti-Virus software for his sons computer. Allchin later...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, What-if Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows Vista, antivirus, PC, desktop, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
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