Comments for Ramblings on IT http://blogit.dslee.org IP on everything Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:22:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Cloud Computing – Risk & Reward by Greg Charland http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/07/21/cloud-computing-risk-reward/#comment-117 Greg Charland Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:22:09 +0000 https://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/cloud-computing-risk-reward/#comment-117 I agree with your line of thinking. Tech people who say, "we never have problems" need...ummm...education. That said, it's unfortunate that [software vendor pretending to be a cloud service provider] isn't more distinguishable from someone who's doing it right. [cloud service provider]'s product is simply a hosted application that is housed in a single data center on a single rack of application servers. WE know that's not "true cloud" where you have distributed storage and power a la s3 or even a distributed application like the 10,000 e-commerce sites that can withstand a data center outage. Problem is, the average business owner trusts the [software vendor who wants to be a cloud service provider] name and figures, "if THEY can't do it right, who can?" Even Microsoft had some serious issues with their Office Live Small Business service...made us ask, "Would Microsoft do something this stupid?" Maybe that's part of the business model. Undermine trust in the hosted app to make people still buy the desktop product. I agree with your line of thinking. Tech people who say, “we never have problems” need…ummm…education.

That said, it’s unfortunate that [software vendor pretending to be a cloud service provider] isn’t more distinguishable from someone who’s doing it right. [cloud service provider]‘s product is simply a hosted application that is housed in a single data center on a single rack of application servers.

WE know that’s not “true cloud” where you have distributed storage and power a la s3 or even a distributed application like the 10,000 e-commerce sites that can withstand a data center outage.

Problem is, the average business owner trusts the [software vendor who wants to be a cloud service provider] name and figures, “if THEY can’t do it right, who can?”

Even Microsoft had some serious issues with their Office Live Small Business service…made us ask, “Would Microsoft do something this stupid?”

Maybe that’s part of the business model. Undermine trust in the hosted app to make people still buy the desktop product.

]]> Comment on Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS by OpenDNS and FamilyShield « Ramblings on IT http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/06/16/home-internet-safety-and-opendns/#comment-115 OpenDNS and FamilyShield « Ramblings on IT Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:02:50 +0000 https://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/home-internet-safety-and-opendns/#comment-115 [...] OpenDNS has recently released their ‘FamilyShield’ service, which is essentially the same service as OpenDNS Basic – EXCEPT, you don’t have to sign up for an account or figure out all the dynamic IP address updating stuff I explained in my previous post. [...] [...] OpenDNS has recently released their ‘FamilyShield’ service, which is essentially the same service as OpenDNS Basic – EXCEPT, you don’t have to sign up for an account or figure out all the dynamic IP address updating stuff I explained in my previous post. [...]

]]> Comment on APC PowerChute 8.0.1, Server 2008 & Hyper-V by Jose Martins http://blogit.dslee.org/2009/07/03/apc-powerchute-8-0-1-server-2008-hyper-v/#comment-114 Jose Martins Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:27:40 +0000 http://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/apc-powerchute-8-0-1-server-2008-hyper-v/#comment-114 Having always preferred APC equipment for the last 10 years, now its time to change ... Having always preferred APC equipment for the last 10 years, now its time to change …

]]> Comment on IT Weapons 10th Anniversary by Ted Garner http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/06/23/it-weapons-10th-anniversary/#comment-113 Ted Garner Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:02:46 +0000 https://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/it-weapons-10th-anniversary/#comment-113 Thanks for the kind words, Dave! See you in Ottawa in August! Take care, Ted Thanks for the kind words, Dave!

See you in Ottawa in August!

Take care,

Ted

]]> Comment on Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS by Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS « Ramblings on IT | DNS Internet http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/06/16/home-internet-safety-and-opendns/#comment-110 Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS « Ramblings on IT | DNS Internet Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:26:29 +0000 https://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/home-internet-safety-and-opendns/#comment-110 [...] link: Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS « Ramblings on IT Posted in Domain Names, Uncategorized, address, computers, dns, domain, how, internet, it, name, [...] [...] link: Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS « Ramblings on IT Posted in Domain Names, Uncategorized, address, computers, dns, domain, how, internet, it, name, [...]

]]> Comment on Outlook 2003 Crashes post-March 2010 Patch Tuesday by onadotcom http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/03/15/outlook-2003-crashes-post-march-2010-patch-tuesday/#comment-108 onadotcom Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:58:16 +0000 http://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/outlook-2003-crashes-post-march-2010-patch-tuesday/#comment-108 Check out CurrentControlSet\Servives or Controlset001\Services or Controlset002\services and delete the Outlook folder Check out CurrentControlSet\Servives or Controlset001\Services or Controlset002\services and delete the Outlook folder

]]> Comment on SBS 2008 R2 or SBS 2010 – Methinks the latter by waynesmall http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/04/03/sbs-2008-r2-or-sbs-2010-methinks-the-latter/#comment-107 waynesmall Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:49:01 +0000 http://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/sbs-2008-r2-or-sbs-2010-methinks-the-latter/#comment-107 There is some info out there on SBS 2008 R2 - http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=1940 But in short, there will be a next version of SBS, as well as some additional SMB server product with links to the cloud. There is some info out there on SBS 2008 R2 – http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=1940
But in short, there will be a next version of SBS, as well as some additional SMB server product with links to the cloud.

]]> Comment on SBS 2008 R2 or SBS 2010 – Methinks the latter by Jeff Loucks http://blogit.dslee.org/2010/04/03/sbs-2008-r2-or-sbs-2010-methinks-the-latter/#comment-103 Jeff Loucks Sat, 01 May 2010 08:00:31 +0000 http://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/sbs-2008-r2-or-sbs-2010-methinks-the-latter/#comment-103 Hi David, In the past SBS was linked to a 60 release target from the server OS and mid-product releases like SBS 2003 R2 were a part of that target. There are many new inovations going on at Microsoft and it is clear the teams is putting its energy into exciting new releases. As for names and dates... your guesss could be as accurate as mine. Keep anticipating! Jeff Loucks Hi David,

In the past SBS was linked to a 60 release target from the server OS and mid-product releases like SBS 2003 R2 were a part of that target. There are many new inovations going on at Microsoft and it is clear the teams is putting its energy into exciting new releases. As for names and dates… your guesss could be as accurate as mine.

Keep anticipating!

Jeff Loucks

]]> Comment on Disk2VHD SysInternals Utility: Redux by dsleeman http://blogit.dslee.org/2009/10/16/disk2vhd-sysinternals-utility-redux/#comment-97 dsleeman Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:24:12 +0000 http://dsleeman.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/disk2vhd-sysinternals-utility-redux/#comment-97 This utility has since been updated to handle converting the drivers to match the VM HAL. Works like a charm. This utility has since been updated to handle converting the drivers to match the VM HAL. Works like a charm.

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