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Interview on Fluke Networks
Fluke Networks, maker of all sorts of measuring and networking devices, interviewed Power Admin’s Doug Nebeker as part of their Expert Interview program. Read the interview and let us know what you think! http://www.flukenetworks.com/cio_brief/expert-interview-doug-nebeker-fluke-networks
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Hosting Secure Websites on Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the market leader in hosted cloud provision. But you might not be aware that it can also be a hosting platform for your websites. This article considers how to set up a site using AWS – and how it can be kept secure. AWS and S3 You’ll first need […]
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Comparing Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
Research by Gartner Inc. suggests that the market for infrastructure as a service (Iaas) will reach $16.5 billion this year. Among the leaders in this sector are offerings from Amazon and Microsoft. In this article, we’ll look at how their products compare. The Old vs. The New Amazon Web Services (AWS) began operating in 2006, […]
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Windows 2003 – Time’s Up!
As we speak with customers we hear about what they are using in their IT infrastructure. And we know there are still a fair number of organizations that are using Windows 2003. To be honest, it was a great workhorse — it did it’s job well and was pretty solid. However, support has ended and […]
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How to install and configure a DHCP Server on a Linux machine -Part 1-
Hello dear readers, In today’s article I will show you how to create your Linux DHCP server. DHCP or Dynamic Host Control Protocol is a service that provides automatic IP addressing to your network devices. The difference between assigning static IPs and using a DHCP server is that the IP assignment is done without the […]
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Scale-Out Windows File Servers
Scale-Out File Server is a new feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 Edition which allows you to deploy a File Server with advanced functionalities. If you’ve worked with previous Windows Server Editions you probably know that you can configure a File Server for high availability within a failover cluster. I’ve configured previously this role in […]
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High Availability Features Introduced with Windows Server 2012
With the release of Windows Server 2012 Microsoft introduced several new features to its high availability technology. In this article we will start discovering some of these new technologies and we’ll see how they’ve improved the overall functionality of failover clusters. Among these new features introduced with Windows Server 2012 are: cluster shared volumes, cluster storage […]
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Funniest helpdesk/sysadmin stories.
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Anybody who has ever worked in an IT support role will have uttered these immortal words at least once. Actually, let’s face it, they will have uttered them hundreds of times. So well known is this response that it was a catchphrase in the brilliant UK […]
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A Brief History of the Internet
In 2015 it is hard to imagine a world without the internet – in fact the thought is just unbearable. At the risk of showing my age, I remember when household connections first became available through the medium of the painfully slow and obnoxious dial-up system. Nowadays, the whole world is connected and so much […]
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VMWare Virtualization – Deploying ESXi
ESXi is a powerful and popular virtualization tool made by VMWare that is used for the deployment and serving of numerous virtual computers. It is used as a standalone operating system and as such uses such components as a kernel. This operating system is the primary component that makes up VMware’s virtualization infrastructure suite. Pre-Installation […]
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