Crypto Currencies and Bitcoin Simply put, a cryptocurrency is a digital asset that operates as a means of exchange. Cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, have been around for a few years. They offer an alternative to the standard fiat currencies and provide advantages in speed and security. They are not issued by a central issuing authority, such […]
Managed Service Providers (“MSP”) providing an SSD option are becoming increasingly popular. However, a problem with shared hosting environments is resource usage management on the physical server itself and the various logical servers it supports. Several instances of seemingly independent servers sharing physical resources, each being independently configured and managed by different users, can be […]
Managed Service Providers (“MSP”) are becoming increasingly popular. IT departments looking to fix or reduce costs are outsourcing operations to an MSP. Another driver is the need to enable remote access for home and other remote workers, and in some cases, move a business to an online e-commerce platform. Outsourcing helps an organization move normal […]
Recently, IT has been under pressure, basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. My story. We are a middling sized company based in the Netherlands operating vanilla Windows based systems. In 2019, business management pressurized us to adopt new technology platforms like the cloud and IOT. The immediate requirement was to support remote […]
IT departments are always under pressure. 2020 has given another turn to the screw. In 2019, business management was looking at the growth of e-commerce and Social Media as the point of contact. They were asking IT to plan to embrace this new world but at minimum cost. All this to the background noise of […]
IT departments are under pressure as never before. The 2019 pressures of malware, IOT, the cloud, and a static or shrinking budget are still there but overtaken by the 2020 imperative of supporting new working styles. Remote working is no longer a nice to have, it is the new reality for many businesses and their […]
A problem with shared hosting environments is resource usage management on the physical server itself and the various logical servers it supports. Several instances of seemingly independent servers sharing physical resources, each being independently configured and managed by different users, can be a recipe for disaster or poor performance at the very least. Most Virtual […]
You’ve taken the plunge and decided to move to a virtual server environment, perhaps in a rack-mounted blade server infrastructure. Your biggest concern can be how to manage the various virtual and physical servers without excessive manual intervention, complex wiring infrastructure, and a console per server. Well, the answer to your concerns is a KVM […]
IT has always been full of underestimates. In the 1950s, Thomas J. Watson of IBM saw a market for “perhaps 5 big computers worldwide”. Famously, Bill Gates said as he announced DOS for the first PCs, “512K memory is enough for anyone”. Today’s equivalent is “The IPv4 address space of 4.3 Billion addresses is large […]