Month: July 2011
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This is not your father’s virus
Malware delivery networks have reached the big time, according to this report from Blue Coat Security Labs. Why should you be concerned? Drive-by infections, targeted email campaigns (phishing and spear-phishing), poisoned Google search results and social networks drive 70% of malware infections. How are these infected PCs being used? Bank fraud, credit card fraud and…
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Friday Fun
We’re prepping a new Hyper-V server to host a Citrix XenApp guest. IBM x3550 M3 1U server with 2x Xeon E5640 quad-core CPUs, 48GB RAM and 4x 146GB SAS 10K 2.5″ drives. No DVD drive. Mike Hanley’s Blog has a great tip on using DISKPART to create a Windows Server 2008R2 USB install key. Check…
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Into Microsoft’s warm embrace
What’s an IT manager to do? That was the question I asked myself when contemplating VMware, Microsoft server and hardware maintenance renewals. At the time, VMware represented the best-performing and best-supported virtualization platform on the market. Our interest in server virtualization was not really about consolidation. Rather, our focus was disaster recovery. The ability to…
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Getting my hands dirty
In my first post I promised to dribble out our “simple IT” story a few bits at a time. October 2008 begins with me in my new role as “one man IT” for our formerly burgeoning enterprise. What was the IT landscape? In the server room we were 80% into our migration from discrete servers…
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“An Oddly Perverse Dynamic”
Aaron Levie, the founder of Box.net wrote a guest post on TechCruch yesterday discussing his perspective on the enterprise software business model. He describes the sales cycle as “… an oddly perverse dynamic where the vendors with the most feature-rich solutions win the contracts, but the users lose due to the complexity of the technology.”…
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Summertime Blues
ma • laise noun – a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort Almost three weeks into summer, my project list is long and my pile of paperwork is high. Yet here I sit on a Saturday afternoon trying to shake off whatever’s got me glued to my chair. Not the most…