Last night at the SMB IT Professionals meeting in Sydney, Michael Leworthy presented on the next generations of SBS 7 and ABA Aurora. Michael highlighted about how Microsoft are making things simpler for us with the new version of SBS by not having both Standard and Premium versions of each product. Instead, Microsoft will release an SBS Premium Add-on pack that can … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud–a positive story
Many of my readers will know that I am very wary of just following everyone else into the cloud. I’ve spoken a few times now both in public presentations and on this blog about how the cloud is something to be cautiously evaluated and considered before jumping into it. Here then is an upside that I’ve personally experienced with the cloud. This website SBSfaq.com … [Read more...]
And to balance it up a Microsoft parody…
Ok – so the iPad parody attracted a few comments… so I figure it’s time to balance it up with a parody about Microsoft, so here’s one I think it pretty cool. Would love to have seen the original though. … [Read more...]
How I moved an 80GB Virtual Machine from Sydney to Brisbane with 7 seconds downtime using ShadowProtect
I love technology and I’m a geek and proud of it I’ve got a client that has had a server running on Hyper-V in Sydney and we needed to move it to Brisbane with minimal downtime. Normally I would simply shutdown the virtual machine and copy the VHD over to the new server, but with a 10MB/s WAN connection from Sydney to Brisbane this was going to take days. I … [Read more...]
Virgin Airlines seeks $20M in damages–are you protected?
Here in Australia, we’ve been familiar with the troubles that Virgin Airlines has had over the last few weeks with it’s outsourced IT Infrastructure. They’ve had literally DAYS of problems with flights having to be cancelled, customer services issues, you name it. All of this has caused a major loss of face and public support for Virgin. The finger is being … [Read more...]