Chapter 3: Mapping Business Requirements to Technical Capabilities - Creating Your File Transfer Shopping List

You're probably ready to start considering a secure, managed file transfer solution for your company, or even for a specific department, division, or project. Before you start Googling "managed file transfer," however, you need to have a solid list of your requirements in mind. Although a lot of managed file transfer solutions are remarkably similar in basic capabilities, each of them offers unique features that, depending on your needs, may be advantageous or disadvantageous to...read more

Chapter 2: Demystifying Cloud Computing

The term "cloud computing" has become a shorthand way of describing a wide range of different computing services. When describing their cloud offering, a vendor might focus on the ability to rapidly provision instances of virtual machines to run applications of your choice. Another vendor might use the term "cloud" when promoting a new way to license and run the vendor's applications on the vendor's servers. Of course, there are any number of definitions in...read more

Complete Book: The Shortcut Guide to Architecting iSCSI Storage for Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies to hit IT in years, with Microsoft’s Hyper-V R2 release igniting those flames even further. Hyper-V arrives as a cost-effective virtualization solution that can be easily implemented by even the newest of technology generalists. But while Hyper-V itself is a trivial implementation, ensuring its highest levels of redundancy, availability, and most importantly performance are not. Due to virtualization’s heavy reliance on storage, two of the most critical decisions...read more

Volume 6: Growing Volumes of Data and Gaining Control of Data Growth

Volume 6 of the The Tips and Tricks Guide to Windows Administration addresses the following topics: 1) Sources of Growing Volumes of Data, 2) Systems Administrator's Responsibilities for Growing Volumes of Data, 3) Getting Control of Data Growth with Information Life Cycle Management....read more

Chapter 7: Rethinking Virtualization Server Backups

Virtualization has changed the way we think about our data centers, and has enabled a number of new, flexible computing scenarios that are saving businesses money and helping them to be more agile. At the same time, however, virtualization has upset many of the tried-and-true IT operations practices that have been developed over the years. In many ways, virtualization is "Computing 2.0," and Backup 1.0 just isn't a good fit. This chapter explains how people...read more