Drive Letters
By Val Bakh 2.4.1 Drive letters (part 1)Disk drives can be referred to using alphabet letters. Drives A and C were used commonly for floppy disk drives….
Drive Letters (Part 2)
By Val Bakh 2.4.2 Drive letters (part 2) In the first part, we covered the basics of drive letter assignment and the changes that Windows Vista has…
Activation Part 2
2.2.2 A product code in an answer file. Let’s say you have a WIM image of Windows 7 Enterprise and a Multiple Activation Key (MAK). How do…
Activation Part 1
By Val Bakh2.2 Activation 2.2.1 Volume activation Every Windows 7 installation must be activated. It is a legal requirement to ensure that the operating system is properly…
Microsoft Vista Tips and Tricks
By Val Bakh 1. Vista 1.1. Boot architecture All Windows versions that are designed for business, starting with Windows NT include built-in support to multiboot configurations. Multiple…
Multicloud Storage Service Spans AWS Microsoft Azure Nimble Storage Inc. has today launched a beta offering that claims to be the only enterprise-grade multicloud block store service for Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), and Microsoft Azure public cloud. The product is called Nimble Cloud Volumes, and its enterprise-grade availability as well as data services can be used to help organizations move new types enterprise apps to the cloud. Nimble Storage believes that the first wave cloud apps will be mostly content-centric, native Web and mobile apps. They lack enterprise-friendly features like data durability and data services such as snapshots, and the ability to share the same volumes with multiple hosts. The next wave of cloud applications comprises traditional transactional-centric workloads — like transactional databases — moving to the public cloud space, with stringent storage requirements. The company stated that NCV flash-based storage could provide enterprise functionality, opening up new frontiers. It also offers other benefits, such as the elimination of cloud vendor lock-in, better data reliability, and uninterrupted data access. Ajay Singh, a senior executive at AWS, stated that the NCV service delivers flash storage volumes or block storage to AWS EC2 instances and Azure Virtual machines. It offers significant advantages over native cloud block storage services such as Amazon EBS and Azure Disk Volumes. The company highlighted the following three main benefits of the new NCV service:
Data mobility between public clouds or on-premises datacenters is easy without large data egress fees. Global visibility and predictive analytics allow for information such as usage history,…
Moxa builds AWS Integration into Industrial IoT “Starter Kit”
Moxa, a provider of industrial Internet of Things solutions (IIoT), recently launched a hardware/software bundle to help systems integrators funnel data between edge devices and Amazon Web…
Most cloud migrations miss the mark on budgets and scheduling
According to a Velostrata report, more than half of cloud migration projects are late or over budget. For a Dimensional Research study, the provider of cloud migration…
AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services Inc. has added more Quick Starts to its portfolio. These Quick Starts provide reference deployment packages for popular solutions. AWS Quick Starts combine security and high availability best practice into packages that combine deployment guides and AWS CloudFormation templates to make it easier to implement key AWS workloads. They are designed to simplify the deployment process by replacing complicated procedures that may involve hundreds of steps with one-click functionality. They come in seven categories: DevOps, Databases & Storage, Big Data & Analytics, Security & Compliance; Microsoft & SAP and Networking & Access. AWS explains that they can be used in the following ways:
Use this as a guideline for your own implementations. To develop your own solutions, you can use the Quick Starts patterns and practices. To speed up solutions…
More Enterprise Software Vendors Get ‘All In” with AWS
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), today announced that four new enterprise software vendors are now “all in” on the Amazon cloud. The new companies choosing AWS for…