RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Guyer, Don
But I read it on the Internet...! Bonjour... Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell:

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Ziots, Edward
Nice, definitely relates to the cloud... Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message,

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread David Lum
My initial question concerned cloud as if it's leaving the clients' building via Internet, the transfer data rate is the same weather it's just offsite or true cloud. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: My Experts 2 Experts Conference Presentation from Hamburg, Germany

2013-02-14 Thread Jeff Bunting
I think you gave a good presentation Webster, and I didn't even get a beer at break time. I even learned a couple of things about DFL and KCC. Thanks! Jeff On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Pretty pathetic attempt at a presentation but if you have an hour

RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW

2013-02-14 Thread Glen Johnson
We have two of their units. One miSAN-D8 with 8 x 3 tb SATA drives. One iSAND with 6 x SAS drive and 6 x SATA drives. We’ve been quite happy with the support overall. We had two drives in the miSAND fail. They provide a spare for us to keep on site, replace the failed drive, send it back to

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven M. Caesare
... weather ... cloud... I see what you did there. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? My initial question concerned cloud as if it's leaving the clients' building via

RE: My Experts 2 Experts Conference Presentation from Hamburg, Germany

2013-02-14 Thread Webster
Great. Thanks for the feedback. Thanks Webster From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My Experts 2 Experts Conference Presentation from Hamburg, Germany I think you gave a good presentation Webster,

Re: Fortigate (was Guest network security)

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
One note: It looks like Traffic Shaping and the Explicit Web Proxy option are no longer available under the new OS for certain pieces of hardware, including my 40C. I suspect that anything in the SOHO range had it removed. I'm going to downgrade to v4.0 MR3 patch 11, as advised by support.

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
FTFY From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? But I read it on the InternetCloud...! Bonjour... Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
We fall under some of those and we do off site backups. We use Iron Mountain. If we need to under contract thy will overnight physical media to us. We have terra bytes of data we do this with. Fortunately it's not my group that handles it as it's not something that interests me overly much.

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread John C Owen
Like a good neighbor. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? FTFY From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW

2013-02-14 Thread Glen Johnson
Can’t speak to much for vm performance. We have one esxi 5.0 host with 4 guests on the isand and performance on that small load is very good. Our main use is a datastore for dpm backups. From: Scott Kaufman [mailto:bskauf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:53 AM To: NT System

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Guyer, Don
This is where the term the cloud becomes murky, in my opinion. If I'm sending data over a private circuit to a 3rd party data center, is that really the cloud? Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike,

Re: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW

2013-02-14 Thread Richard Stovall
I have use Cybernetics gear in the past. Make sure you check the support options very carefully and understand what type of response you're entitled to before pulling the trigger. Also make sure the unit you're considering is on the HCL for both VMware and Hyper-V. For inexpensive iSCSI

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: This is where the term “the cloud” becomes murky, in my opinion. If I’m sending data over a private circuit to a 3rd party data center, is that really “the cloud”? If you ask the marketing department, Yes. If you ask the

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
Actually I don't care what they call it as long as the specific service is defined. I care that I get to use it instead of the old solution so if they want to call it a 'Company cloud service' then I will call it 'Company cloud service'. This back and forth stuff saying 'marketing is evil' or

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Rod Trent
There's the private Cloud, which is your own data center, and the public Cloud which is someone else's data center, and then hybrid Cloud which is a mixture of both. Well, and then there's the Adobe Cloud. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/02/14/adobe-ceo-makes-you-hate-adobe-a

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
As Ken pointed out, certain governmental organizations have begun defining exactly what a cloud means to them. The US government now adheres to a specific definition of a cloud. At least, there is a proposed specific definition. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Thursday,

Re: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Chris, if you look at who that certification is targeting, the ROI is very, very straightforward. Lowering the price wouldn't lower the barrier that much, and the cost of the overall process must come from somewhere. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker*

RE: 50GB free storage from Box.com

2013-02-14 Thread Webster
Dude all you had to do was pay several thousand pounds to take the official VMware training course, a couple of hundred pounds to take (and pass) the cert exam and VMware would have given you a copy of VMware Workstation for free! Sheez, some people. Thanks Webster From:

Re: 50GB free storage from Box.com

2013-02-14 Thread kz20fl
Or grabbed it from the Pirate Bay ;-) Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -Original Message- From: Webster webs...@carlwebster.com Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:03:59 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System

RE: 50GB free storage from Box.com

2013-02-14 Thread Guyer, Don
Would that be known as Cloud storage?.. *don't answer that, being sarcastic in light of other threads* : ) Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email:

Re: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Don't want to keep on this thread, it's obvious that most of you are in disagreement with me. I'm OK with that. But to your comment: I think I get who the certification is targeting. My point is that I think there is a larger population out there that might be interested in and possibly be

Re: File limitation error:updated

2013-02-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Chinnery, Paul pa...@mmcwm.com wrote: I had a conference call with our vendor this afternoon. Here is where the error occurs: I open up a command prompt and go to this folder on the server: z:\\\\0 I then type in : MD

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
No - I disagree. Whilst, in IT, there is much marketing BS from vendors wanting to sell you stuff, the core cloud definitions are pretty well settled IMHO. Most people use a variation of what NIST has published: Features: * Perception of infinite capacity, with rapid elasticity (as far

RE: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
I suppose one issue is that for every person that says “$20,000 is too much, it should be $10,000 and lots more people would do it”, there’s another person that will say “$10,000 is too much, it should be $5,000 and lots more people would do it”, and so on. Cheers Ken From: Christopher Bodnar

RE: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Start the calculation one step further back. Maybe it costs 2.8 million to run those 4 sessions per year for them to break even. In an attempt to lower the bar, they’ve already cut the cost in half and eaten the 1.4 million. If so, they’ve chosen a pretty fair split – MS pays half; candidate

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
Maybe you know a different group of 'most people' then I do. While I like your definition and wish it was more in use by 'most people' the only people that count are the ones that cut checks near you. I am all for agreed upon definitions and I have seen movement among some marketers to infer

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
Marketers will always hang their product on the 'latest' cool thing - that's the same in all markets, not just IT. What matters is how much is absorbed at face value by decision makers. We may be in different markets, or exposed to different people. But the architects and CIO/CTO type people

RE: Powershell question

2013-02-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
ToString() doesn't work for you? Convert-* don't work for you? I'm a little confused as to what you want to do... From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell question Hey guys, I have a

RE: Powershell question

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Ugh, just got schooled by a .net dev:) So the issue is that when I use an xpath to carve up an xml config file locally and ship the System.Xml.XmlDocument object off to a remote computer via remoting, it gets serialized, so its almost useless at the far end. What I plan to do is convert all

Re: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Part of the allure, prestige and clout of the cert is that it *isn't* open to more people. Scarcity does have value, and to both Ken's and Scott's points, even a $2500 cut-off would annoy many. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have other, affordable yet valuable certs out there to cover the

RE: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm not really familiar with SkyDrive and GoogleDrive - they're more targeted at consumers right? What about the corporate offerings? Can you just get more and more storage as required? For Amazon EC2 - the scalability is in the number of machines you can buy, not in the configuration of each

RE: Fortigate (was Guest network security)

2013-02-14 Thread James Hill
I came across the same issue with a recently purchased 40C and was also disappointed. The 60C (soon to be 60D with 2 x the performance) has the traffic shaping option and pretty much everything else. Maybe I didn't look hard enough but it certainly isn't made obvious on their website that

Re: Backup to cloud?

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*I think that’s what’s meant by “perception of infinite capacity”.* Fair enough, Ken. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:47 PM,

RE: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

2013-02-14 Thread Brian Desmond
Bulk reply here. - Printers are just an object in the directory of class printQueue. There is no SID or anything like that attached to them. - The printer object needs to go away, eventually because it has the UNC path to the share on it - If you go to ViewShow Objects as Containers (or

RE: OT: MCM certification

2013-02-14 Thread Brian Desmond
As others have noted, it costs a good bit of money just to put these classes on – both the delivery and all of the background work (courseware dev, exam dev, management overhead, etc.). Your dollar figure may be little in the grand scheme of a company of Microsoft’s scale, but, at the end of

Re: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

2013-02-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Bulk reply here. - Printers are just an object in the directory of class printQueue. There is no SID or anything like that attached to them. - The printer object needs to go away, eventually because it has the UNC