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Why Storage Networks Can Be Better Than Direct Attached Storage for Exchange
Why Storage Networks Can Be Better Than Direct Attached Storage for Exchange Guest Post By: Brien M. Posey Of all the decisions that must be made when planning an Exchange Server deployment, perhaps...
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An Up Close Look at the Volume Shadow Copy Services
An Up Close Look at the Volume Shadow Copy Services Guest Post by: Brien M. Posey One of the big problems with backing up database applications is that oftentimes the data is modified before the...
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Want to Save the Universe?
I like Star Trek. I’ve always wanted to be Captain Kirk (had to pick one…Picard is great too) sitting in that chair on the bridge of the Enterprise with seemingly endless resources at my disposal with...
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The move to an intelligence-driven security model
Image: Internet cables are seen at a server room REUTERS/Kacper Pempel Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Reflect on that for...
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The Public Cloud, Pigeons and Risk Management — Part 3
Looking at the Evidence for Trusting Cloud Computing Ian Farquhar, Advisory Technology Consultant for RSA, the Security Division of EMC Are we trusting a third party with our data? Yes, we are, and...
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The Pros and Cons of Using Database Availability Groups
The Pros and Cons of Using Database Availability Groups Guest Post By: Brien M. Posey Database Availability Groups (DAGs) are Microsoft’s go to solution for providing high availability for Exchange...
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Faking an SSD in your virtualized vSphere lab
I have written about this before (and so has William Lam, so all credits go to William), but I wanted to note down these commands for my own use as I find myself digging around often for the same...
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What A Modern Factory Can Teach You About High-Performance IT
I'm not the only who's fascinated by high-performance IT organizations, and the transformations required to get them there. In my travels, I've encountered others who share my fascination. And -- each...
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My Bookstore
I had various people asking why I didn’t make it easier to buy my books via my website. Greg Schulz from StorageIOblog.com mentioned that he created an amazon store. So I took a peek at how he set it...
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What’s New for Exchange 2013 Storage?
What’s New for Exchange 2013 Storage? By: Brien M. Posey Many of Exchange Server 2013’s most noteworthy improvements are behind the scenes architectural improvements rather than new product features....
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Enterprise Storage Heats Up – Again!
Once you spend any time inside the storage marketplace, you'll come to appreciate there are many segments and subsegments. The need to store information is ubiquitous -- the approaches are not. Sit...
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What I Mean When I Say "Enterprise Storage"
The recent announcement of the VMAX 10K brought up an interesting discussion for us storage folks: what -- exactly -- might "enterprise storage" be? I find that the definitions offered by the industry...
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Stretched vCloud Director infrastructure
A while back I wrote about design considerations when designing or building a stretched vCloud Director infrastructure. Since then I have been working on a document in collaboration with Lee Dilworth,...
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Laser Precision Phishing — Are You on the Bouncer’s List Today?
By Limor S Kessem, Cybercrime and Online Fraud Communications Specialist, RSA As we close out 2012, it’s safe to say that phishing has had yet another record year in attack volumes. The total number...
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The End Of The Group File Share?
It was certainly a big deal many decades ago: the notion that one of your desktop drives ("H:\") could actually be shared with your co-workers over a LAN. No more floppies. A shared repository,...
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What’s new for Exchange Server 2013 Database Availability Groups?
What’s new for Exchange Server 2013 Database Availability Groups? By: Brien M. Posey When Microsoft created Exchange Server 2010, they introduced the Concept of Database Availability Groups. Database...
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The Public Cloud, Pigeons and Risk Management — Part 4
The Public Cloud and Key Management Ian Farquhar, Advisory Technology Consultant for RSA, the Security Division of EMC I have recently been asked if the research paper about key leakage across VMs...
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Storage DRS Survey – Please fill it out
If you have a couple of minutes, please take the time to fill out this survey about Storage DRS. It literally takes about 5 minutes to fill out and it would help the Product Management team a lot!...
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Secure Crypto: Cluster Cracker
At a recent conference, Passwords^12, Jeremi M Gosney the Founder & CEO of Stricture Consulting Group, presented his latest password cracking project. Jeremi combined 25 AMD Radeon GPUs, across...
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Keys in the Cloud
The Cloud Best Practices Network has just published the second installment of the e-magazine TRANSFORM. This issue, which focuses on various aspects of cloud security, includes my article on “Key...
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