Friday, July 31, 2015

The cloud storage

Software-defined Storages (SDS) on the basis of open source offer flexibility and scalability, do not reach the proprietary memory.

IT decision makers are increasingly confronted with the question of how a cloud infrastructure can easily deploy and how various cloud offerings can be permanently integrated into existing systems. Solutions such as OpenStack , Cinder or OpenATTIC have greatly gained in popularity, because they have an open architecture and companies have realized that they can thereby realize efficiencies and cost savings much faster than with traditional software.

Open Source Storage - the smarter choice
On average, to manage the volume of data every two years. Doubled Software-defined Storage (SDS) is the answer to this rising flood of data. By abstracting the hardware from the software, the high functionality of existing storage systems can represent purely in software and transfer it to a simple, low-cost hardware. This SDS is an effective way to back up data efficiently and cost effectively and to manage.

A look at the memory approach commercial providers shows that there are huge margins retracted because users who want to use some APIs, modules or functions always have to buy the whole package. Open Source is much more flexible. It's not just about saving costs, but also to the freedom, functions and modules if and to the cloud Add Framework when they are actually needed.

Google Enterprise is now called Google for Work

What Google is offering for companies, specially that ran previously under the umbrella brand Google

That is over now the future holds Google's solutions for organizations in Google for Work together. According to the relevant Google manager Amit Singh against The Next Web but will change not only the name but also the nature, as we are launching products and new features to communicate. According to Google, 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are paying customers of Google-for-work services. The customer satisfaction is expected to reach 95 percent.

The longtime Google CEO and now Chairman of the Board, Eric Schmidt, Google for Work announce the official company blog ; reading the meaningless contribution you can give but confidently.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Thousands of US service stations unsecured on the Internet

The dangers of the total networking may soon get to feel many American motorists. Thousands petrol stations, mainly in the United States are connected via TCP/IP to the Internet unprotected.

The reports of the chief research officer of security firm Rapid7, HD Moore, in a blog post and refers to insider information from the industry. Around 5800 the so-called Automatic Tank Gauges (ATG) is controllable via the Internet without any detours and password protection and thus manipulates - 5300 of them in the US alone, at least three percent of all gas stations in the country.

Using ATG manufactured by Veeder-Root will be controlled and monitored the fuel tank almost all American stations and many other stations around the world. About a monitoring console operator levels, refueling operations, threatening leaks or environmental influences from the outside can control. Connected this ATG are serial interfaces, fax, modem or even TCP/IP. To access via the Internet to the monitoring console, use many station operators TCP/IP, mostly on TCP port 10001 - because password protection is not set by default, the systems often are therefore open and freely accessible on the Internet.

What brings the IoT for pros and cons

The flood of devices on the Internet of Things has huge potential, but also comes with a whole range of problems and hurdles to take it yet. In many places are still missing concepts. Manufacturers recognize, however, that the solution might lie in standards.

The Internet of Things countless new intelligent and connected devices are coming, who accompany us in everyday life. Here most of the enormous potential stresses are undoubtedly attractive for developers and IT fallow . But the Internet of Things brings huge challenges whose solutions are yet to come.

One example is safety. With the number of networked devices every day the amount of data that is collected and stored on the devices themselves or in the cloud grows. The data are not only attractive to hackers; the potential for security breaches is growing exponentially with each device. And the damage that can be caused when a hacker attack is much greater. Just imagine what can be done with chopped locking systems, car or automatically operated industrial plants for damage ...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

SDN is revolutionizing the data center

Is Software-Defined Networking (SDN) become the next empty words? No, because SDN continues the evolution of cloud computing continues, makes networking flexible and can be integrated with existing hardware.

Hype or not SDN is the next logical step after virtualization, which has grown up enough for everyday use, especially by VMware end of the nineties. Hypervisors like Citrix Xen,
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere (ESXi) or KVM are grown up and for some time powerful tools. What the SDN now adds is true flexibility.
SDN meets Cloud

Cloud Computing , probably one of the most discussed topics of the recent past is, depending on the approach and the application scenario either the technology of the future or a marketing hype with numerous uncertainties. Undeniably, the evolution leads to the Cloud Computing, The Cloud is the flexible infrastructure for all other technologies. No more, no less. So the data center is no longer numerous pizza boxes in the racks, but rather virtual pizza boxes on a host server.

Monitor Hyper-V with free tools

For monitoring of Hyper-V virtual servers exist a number of free freeware tools. We looked at some interesting free solutions for Hyper-V monitoring closely.
Those who cannot rely on costly and complex solutions such as Microsoft System Center to monitor Hyper-V hosts or wants, will take place on the market a number of free software tools. We have undergone a small selection of a closer look.

Many of the tools described below will also work with Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2, but we have tested the versions of Windows Server 2012 R2.

Free Tools for Microsoft's Hyper-V


In addition to the well-known tool Veeam One can Hyper-V with SolarWinds Free VM monitor and ManageEngine Free HyperV server Monitor monitor. SolarWinds has, incidentally, in addition to a support of Hyper-V, a version for VMware on. Below we address some of the tools in more detail.

But you can also use the Performance Monitor in Windows Server 2012 R2, which is one of the standard tools of Windows Server. To perform a permanent long-term measurement, you need to create a data collector set. To do this click with the right mouse button on the data collector for makes custom setting. With New Data Collector Set, such a record is created. While creating the possibility to read a template. You can use the tool PAL received. After installation, you choose the File tab at the threshold file title, select Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 and click Export to Perfmon templateFile. This template will also work with Windows Server 2012 R2. The document you are reading a wizard for creating new data collector sets.

Monday, July 27, 2015

New Oracle Engineered System for application virtualization

Virtual Compute Appliance
Oracle today announced the Virtual Compute Appliance on a new integrated system can virtually practically any (x86) workloads with the user.

The Virtual Compute Appliance is the latest addition to the family of so-called Engineered Systems, which Oracle demonstrate its expertise in the integration of software and hardware and wants to sell its customers an advantage. It should , according to an announcement enable fast and repeatable installations of full-stack infrastructure. The wire-once system comes completely pre-configured. Production workloads should be possible to set up with little effort on a software-defined configuration - IBM has its similar concept Pure Systems for quite some time in the market.

The Virtual Compute Appliance, Oracle is built around an InfiniBand fabric around. Connection to existing Ethernet and Fiber Channel networks, the system finds more than pooled interconnect modules that can use any virtual machine transparently. The system has to start no single point of failure, virtualized applications can at a hardware or software errors automatically.

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit - protection against zero-day attacks

Security tool for Windows
Security tool for Windows

A major threat to computer users lurks in the form of newly discovered vulnerabilities in programs. Since manufacturers usually do not provide patches as quickly, can specialized malware often sneak past the antivirus software. Exactly wants to prevent the software anti-exploit.

Functionality The tool Anti-Exploit the manufacturer Malwarebytes is a security program that his shield on Windows PCs spans. There fends off attacks that exploit vulnerabilities widely unknown, to do damage. Because certain applications have increasingly emerged as gateways because of their widespread use, is anti-exploit focused on this.

To monitor the free version of the tool Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera along with their add-ons, as well as Java. With the paid premium and business version can be also attacked on the Microsoft Office components Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as some PDF reader prevent (e.g. Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader) and media player (such as VLC and Winamp) ,

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Select Microsoft server licenses correctly

How will Microsoft server products licensed correct This clarifies the following contribution, taking into account the different rules, styles and approaches to licensing Microsoft servers.

For many products, Microsoft provides the conventional Server licensing with associated user or computer licenses on. There is must be licensed not only individual servers, but also their processors, sometimes the cores, as in SQL Server 2014. In the Standard Edition, you can, for example, buy a server license and for each user a user license (CAL) (see also Microsoft Client Access Licenses - when and which licenses are required). You also have the option to license on a per processor core.

What is ultimately cheaper, you have to calculate with a license specialist. You must license at least four cores per processor; CALs are no longer necessary in this case. The Business Intelligence edition of SQL Server 2014, you can turn to license only after the CAL model. The Enterprise Edition of the new server version only offers the possibility to license by processor cores; you must license at least four cores. That is, you need a license for each core and must purchase four licenses. This also applies if you are installing the product on a single-processor server and only two cores, even if this may be a relatively improbable constellation.

Essential tools in Digital Marketing

Having the right tools on hand, is responsible for marketing managers more important than ever. Customers are well informed and well connected. Since it takes appropriate analytical tools to deploy the own marketing resources as efficiently as possible.

The tasks of marketing managers are becoming increasingly complex. The markets increasingly present themselves fragmented and at the same time, customers are increasingly close to each other wired. Offering a range of information sources available and thus increases to customers' expectations. At the same time, the influence is through marketing and sales activities on the buying decisions less. On the part of the distribution, thus the pressure, the quantity and quality of leads identified from marketing grows to increase. Finally, competing for the customer it is important to accurately deploy scarce marketing resources.

But on what basis can sound decisions be taken in marketing How can customer potential with the right measures raise And how can the increasingly complex communication processes are optimally aligned to the customer life cycle and on the quality of the customer These are the crucial questions that marketers need to find the right answers today.

The Data Wizard


The Data Wizard uses felt 22 different apps on at least eleven instruments, which is probably not always conforms to the BYOD policy in the company. The favorite of the data network wizard is Google Plus - the analysis tools are just too good. And liked it operates email campaigns that he has tested with enthusiasm before. Thus the data wizard is probably not alone 43 percent of all digital marketing manager test their views beforehand, check the half if the time of day for the e-mail campaign is the right also and 97 percent can ruminate for hours on the subject line. What CIOs should look for the way to the beloved data they ignored ever implemented policies for security and BYOD.

Big Data or Data Warehouse

Big Data is a Disruptive Technology and triggers Business Intelligence (BI) and conventional data warehouses (DWH) sooner or later from or is Big Data completely unsuitable for conventional BI and has no place in this environment not.

On April 16, 2014 William Harvey Inmon wrote a remarkable blog entry. Under the headline, Big Data or Data Warehouse Turbocharge your Porsche - buy an Elephant is working up the Father of Data Warehousing on the Cloudera advertising slogan BIG DATA - Turbocharge your data warehouse.  Basically, the blending of architecture (data warehouse) and technology (teased Big Data). In particular, however, he emphasized that it was simply impossible with the Hadoop platform Apache, provide for data warehouses is strictly necessary, carefully constructed and operated information infrastructure.

Every manager who insets Big Data technologies for Sarbanes-Oxley or Basel II reporting, would retain their job much longer. Those are strong words for a clear delineation of both worlds. Here Inmon is not just anyone 2007 counted him Computerworld to the ten most important IT personalities of the past 40 years.

Exactly at the same time joined Ralph Kimball, Inmon next certainly the most influential data warehouse protagonist, exactly in the area said Cloudera offensive for using Hadoop as a data warehouse platform a. He praised flexibility, performance and cost savings for future Hadoop data warehouses and forecast this approach has great potential.

Now Inmon and Kimball represented already in the nineties very different approaches, such as top-down vs. Bottom-Up or Normalform- versus dimensional modeling, but in practice, fortunately quite usefully complemented each other and have thus strongly influenced the most current data warehouses. The new conflict of Kimball and Inmon is equally characteristic of the current debate around data warehouse and Big Data. And as is to be hoped that he will have an equally positive effect on future solutions in this environment as previous clashes.