For this month’s edition of ’the changing times’, the bi-monthly newsletter from my consultancy network The Lamberhurst Corporation, click here. In this edition we have some articles which include:- New Mergers and Acquisitions Group An ...
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Are you ready for the Microsoft Private Cloud? On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System Center ...
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A key component of Windows Server 8 Continuous Availability is the introduction of SMB 2.2. This new solution will allow cost effective implementation of capabilities for the SMB that were reserved for the enterprise sector before. Thomas Pfenning has ...
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If you are looking to deploy, configure and support a 3par based solution then look no further for your training, attend the Designing & Implementing HP Cloud Solutions using 3PAR for all your needs. It covers the following: Identify the HP 3PAR ...
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Another example of “when SharePoint goes wrong.” On a dev machine, the search service mysteriously stopped working. I can’t pinpoint what caused it, but SP1 and a CU were recently applied and these seem like good candidates for breaking ...
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For those that don’t know, there is a vSphere 5 Best Practise Guide for HA available from VMware: http://blogs.vmware....
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I've always been fond of saying "Time is Money". I do sometimes wonder if the sentiment can be expressed better, but in business, the crux is that you don't want to be wasting time. Which is why we've always advocated automating labour intensive tasks - ...
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I’ve mentioned HP’s StoreOnce Deduplication a couple of times in my blog and I’ve found a nice video that explains it in laymans terms:
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As I said in my post ‘HP Data Protector 6.21 available’ I mentioned there were issues with the multipath setup and there are a few workarounds for it: Uninstall the 6.21 patches Use the GUI from 6.2 Request hotfix QCCR2A35525 through a HP ...
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Richard Parker, Itex Market Development Director, will be joining an impressive line-up of speakers next week at Cloud Expo Europe 2012. Cloud Expo Europe, taking place at London Olympia on 25 and 26 January, will welcome over 3,500 people through its ...
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I recently read with interest an article for a new Guardian series about Digital Literacy, and a significant issue facing Britain at the moment; namely the lack of workers with digital skills. To quote directly from the story, Britain is facing a shortage ...
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Veeam have released a patch to address the issues that users have been experiencing with Veeam v6 direct from SAN backups. The issues being seen include switching over to NBD mode, general long backups times and basic failures from the direct backup from ...
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It’s no secret that the Combined Knowledge SharePoint Conferences are the among the biggest and best independent SharePoint conferences, which makes me particularly pleased and proud to be a speaker again at this year’s International SharePoint ...
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VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a ...
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Are you running 6.2 of HP Data Protector? Upgrade to the latest (Windows) patches to ensure vSphere 5 compatability: Core – DPWIN_00527 Cell Server – DPWIN_00529 Cell Console – DPWIN_00530 Media Agent – DPWIN_00516 Disk Agent – DPWIN_00515 Virtual ...
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It’s been about 6 months since I moved to Jersey to immerse myself in SharePoint at C5 Alliance – I am loving the work and the challenges so far. I also inherited a LinkedIn Channel Islands SharePoint User Group (open to all – do join if you have any ...
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HP has released Data Protector 6.21 which now includes the HP StoreOnce de-duplication engine. This enables the delivery of high performance and resource efficient software based de-duplication which helps improve utilization of storage across the ...
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Despite the economic climate continuing to place pressures on corporate and personal purses, the eGaming sector is buoyant and industry commentators seem bullish about future prospects. Glyn Harris explains. Popularity of certain games, aggressive ...
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The mark of a successful technology innovation is appreciating that we couldn���t function easily without it in our lives. Researchers, who are already busy developing tomorrow���s innovations, give us their picks of the most ground-breaking developments ...
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While with Bouvet, in addition to the digi.no interview, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were interviewed by Teknisk Ukeblad about how agile isn't a substitute for basic software engineering, architecture and craftsmanship. Read Ikke så smidig ...
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I spent a fantastic few days with Bouvet in Oslo towards the end of last year where talked about software architecture with some of the team, customers and press. For the Norwegian speakers that haven't seen it, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were ...
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I was recently trying to figure out a MOSS 2007 AND SharePoint 2003 backwards-compatible way of detecting whether a folder exists in a document library with thousands of items, from a remote location, using Out Of The Box web services… don’t ask why…! ...
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In our move away from the waterfall way of building software, it's common for software teams to ask how much up front design they should be doing. Just enough is a good starting point but what exactly does that mean? Read more...
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A while ago (click here), I stated that to be successful a business must have a vision of where it wants to go; it must be passionate about what it does and it must get on and do something about it – i.e. there must be action! I was reminded of this ...
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For most businesses, (located anywhere outside of the growing BRIC economies), 2011 has been tough. Closer to home we have seen the impact of the global financial crisis linger on, with pressure on employment, retail sales, GVA levels and property ...
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Itex will once again be represented on the Team Alderney stand at the eGaming exhibition ��� ICE 2012 - at the end of January. Held at Earl���s Court from 24 to 26 January 2012, ICE is now a key date in the eGaming industry calendar and has become the ...
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It’s that time of year again, the end of that artificial construct we call a ‘calendar year’ that prompts so many of us to cast our minds back over the last 12 months. So, apart from rocketing helplessly through space at 107000 km/h, ...
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Local IT company Itex has been picked by Hewlett Packard (HP) as a Cloud Centre of Business Excellence (CCOE) �� Richard Parker - Itex Director of Market Development Itex is one of the first five UK companies to have been selected for the new HP scheme ...
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A quick Google search on the term ���big data��� turns up 37,900,000 results in 0.11 seconds. That���s a lot of data about a term that���s generating equal parts buzz and confusion these days. For a basic definition, Wikipedia describes big data as ...
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Over 30 IT and Compliance professionals attended for a recent Itex Breakfast seminar which looked at issues surrounding the growing trend of using personal mobile devices for accessing work data. With forecasts predicting the sale of mobile devices to ...
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The team at Prosperity 24.7 would like to wish all of our clients, friends, colleagues and general supporters past, present and future, a very merry Christmas and all the health, wealth, best wishes and prosperity in 2012. The support that we have ...
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We'd just like to take this opportunity to wish all of our clients, readers, friends and online visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It's been a very busy but rewarding year and we're hoping that some of our hard work will really pay off ...
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Recently I have been spending more time outside of Jersey and been fortunate to have met and discussed virtualization with some of Europe’s virtualization and Private Cloud IT Pro’s. Most of them can be found in the online and offline Microsoft and ...
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In line with market demand, Prosperity 24.7 has grown their practice capability to include a team of experts to deliver Technical Solutions with four additional strategic appointments to facilitate their Channel Island growth aspirations. Leading the new ...
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I just tripped over this problem, and despite a fair amount of Googlage, I didn’t find anything that directly resolved my issue. I was trying to use dbMail in SQL Server 2008 to send an email on a schedule which included the results of a query. ...
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Why is it important?Choosing a Content Management System (CMS) is probably the most important decision when you build your website.���� There are a number of CMSs, including open source, license or proprietary systems.���� As you probably already ...
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Also known as Daily Deal or Collective Buying sites, Group Buying Websites (GBW) are a relatively new phenomenon only hitting the mainstream in 2009. The principle behind them is to exploit the power of the web and social media to sell large quantities ...
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I took receipt of a shiny new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone 7 yesterday and thought it would be worthwhile blogging about the pros/cons so far, including some tips for anybody in the same boat. Before I start, I should state where I’m coming from; I use ...
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When: 19 December 2011 from 17:30 onwards. Where: St Pauls Centre, Dumaresq Street, St Helier Jersey The Jersey Windows User Group invites you to attend an evening of interactive technical talks with local and visiting technologists. Please register on ...
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