Last Updated on 22 May 2013, Total: 332 Blog Posts
With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.
| 8 | Command-line | 23 April 2013 |
| 107 | General | 22 May 2013 |
| 29 | Implementation | 9 May 2013 |
| 16 | Monitoring | 18 Jan. 2013 |
| 88 | News | 20 May 2013 |
| 70 | Products | 25 April 2013 |
| 5 | Troubleshooting | 2 May 2012 |
| 9 | Virtualization | 7 March 2013 |
Active Directory is critical to your organization and assessing configuration changes is a recommended best practice to safeguard this valuable asset. NetWrix has released an updated freeware version of their Active Directory Change Reporter product with significantly improved Active Directory change tracking and advanced reporting technologies. The tool simply keeps tabs on what's going on inside your Active Directory, tracks... Read More
The cloud is not inherently less safe. Among the six security incident categories examined, Web application attack was the only threat category more prevalent in cloud hosting provider environments than in enterprise environments... Read More
A wearable system called OmniTouch turns an ordinary surface like a table or the wall in front of you into an interactive multi-touch input device. Researchers Hrvoje Benko and Andrew Wilson from Microsoft, and Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University came up with the prototype that combines a projector which projects the touchscreen onto a close by surface or body... Read More
You can now use Amazon’s Storage Gateway on-premises in two of the most popular virtualization environments: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi... Read More
If you are a user of Amazon's EC2 Spot Instances and feels confident that you have built a cool idea using spot instances then show off your talent and try your luck at Spotathon! You could win $25,000 in AWS Credit and celebrate Cyber Monday in a spot-instance style. You simply need to say what your application does, how it... Read More
Amazon AWS Cloud now supports the launch of Microsoft SQL Server on m1.small (1 ECU, 1.7 GB RAM) and m1.medium (2 ECU, 3.75 GB RAM) instance types. Amazon is introducing support for Microsoft SQL Server Web Edition, which brings together affordability, scalability, and manageability in a single offering. SQL Server Web will be supported across all Amazon EC2 instance types,... Read More
Following the devastating cyber-attack on Mat Honan's digital life, Amazon changes its policy and fixes the security hole by no longer allowing people to call Amazon and change account settings like credit cards and e-mail addresses. Previously, Amazon's phone policy essentially allowed hackers to use social engineering tricks on support representatives to learn sensitive information about targets like Honan. Read... Read More
Attend Amazon's AWS re: Invent this November, the No.1 event for the AWS Cloud community. It is the event of the cloud computing developers, hottest start-ups, and visionary technology leaders. The event includes topics that will make you a Cloud expert in: monitoring cloud resources, optimizing performance, managing security, and cutting costs. Plus you can meet with Amazon's AWS engineers... Read More
Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) include route tables and gateways features, that allow you to both extend your organization's network to Amazon's Cloud, and connect your VPC to the Internet and leverage the benefits of Amazon EC2. In addition, you can create VPNs using devices that do not support BGP. Some firewalls and entry-level routers support IPSec but not BGP... Read More