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Quote
of the
Month
"The trouble with
learning from
experience is that
you never graduate."
~ Doug Larson
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Life After Wi-Max
 Without
getting into the details of the announced Sprint deal
to light up our country with ubiquitous Internet bandwidth,
we need to imagine what life will look like after “Google
on your hip” happens.
Imagine moving Google that much closer to your inner
self. It is bad enough that we run to Google for every
last thing going on around us, but at least we are sometimes
kept at a safe distance from it so we can pretend to
exist like humans did for the past thousand years.
Remember when you could sit at a dinner table with
your kids (long ago and far away) and actually tell
them something without being challenged by real facts
(courtesy of Google) that made your parenting look weak
by the end of each sentence. When you could actually
make a case or invent one if needed and everyone looked
at you as the wise and powerful one. Today a quick break
to the computer or a look up on their smart phone strips
that from you. At least today the slow speed and small
screens may limit the amount of ammunition that is in
front of them at the point of engagement. What if they
could Google at the speed of light, keeping their Google
on the hip as deadly as any firearm? There they are
armed with every fact and argument known to mankind.
How do you defend against it?
Just like the gun equalized the human race, taking
strength out of the human equation of power, Google
coupled with major bandwidth will make life a 24/7 firefight,
with arguments and a knowledge slugfest causing the
nation to just spin off out of control.
Read More
- Larry
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Is
It Time To Upgrade Your Firewall?
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heard it before -- the only thing that is constant is
change. That statement seems to be particularly
true of technology. We want to share a announcement
that we received recently from Sonicwall
about their product line. Many of you have been
protecting your network for several years with their reliable
firewall products. But now, due to the ever-increasing
sophistication of hackers, hacking tools and security
threats, it has become necessary for Sonicwall
to revamp their entire product line to combat these new
dangers. Read
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Virtualization Overview
by Jane Cage, COO, HTS
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We
live in a world that constantly forces us to “do more
with less”. Employees are expected to be more efficient.
Multi-function devices are becoming the standard on
many desktops. We multi-task by answering email, talking
on the phone and reviewing a spreadsheet – all at the
same time.
We shouldn’t be surprised then that IT departments are
asking the same of their fileservers. When server utilization
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measured,
we find that many servers have much more capacity than they
actually use for the majority of the time. With so much excess
capacity – why not run more than one server on a single machine?
That’s what virtualization is all about -- one physical machine
running more than one server operating system.
Virtualization
is a “hot” technology right now and here are some of the reasons
why:
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Cost
Savings – virtualization may allow you to consolidate
multiple servers down to one. Not every server is a candidate
to be virtualized but many can make the move successfully.
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Ease
of Deployment – An IT person can build a “standard” server
in a virtual environment. Any time a new server is needed,
a copy of the standard server can be deployed in minutes
rather than hours.
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Test
Bench – If you are not sure if your existing software
will run in a new operating system, why not use a virtual
server for testing?
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Disaster Recovery – When the unthinkable happens, recovery
of a virtual machine may speed your time back to operations.
VMWare
has been the leader in virtualization technology. This year,
Microsoft is introducing Server 2008 which promises a wealth
of features that will raise the bar. You’re sure to hear more
about this exploding technology in the months to come. If
you’re interested, contact your account rep for more information.
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Life After
Wi-Max
