Archive for July, 2010

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SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP)


2010
07.19

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Posted in Backup, DISASTER, INFRASTRUCTURE, Network, RECOVERY, RISK, Storage | No Comments »

Any backup is only as reliable as its ability to restore business data and applications when they are needed most. The SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Series offers end-to-end backup and recovery solution for SMBs.

CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. Integrated scheduling offers administrator controls to perform backups continuously in real time or automatically on a routine basis for both files and database data set. CDP integrated scheduling performs daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly backup at a specific desired time for optimize backup operation and network resource utilization.

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Data Centre Planning Tools


2010
07.12

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I have seen companies building data centre without proper calculations. It’s end up different concerns. Data centre area / size, location, cooling, power, UPS, accessibility, maintenance, scalability, etc. If we do a proper calculation and consider all the aspects of its design we can avoid such incidents. Some scenarios after completing the design / construction understand that site don’t 3 phase power source, difficulty of water in line / drain piping of CCU. Difficulty of bring or move racks / CCU / UPS / Battery pack to data centre. Difficulty to add redundant power source, or due to the area unable to fix generator. Difficult to construct solid walls. Power backups and cost of equipments.

APC providing some tools to help us in the design / planning data centre.
• Data Center Efficiency Calculator
• UPS Efficiency Comparison Calculator
• Data Center Capital Cost Calculator
• Data Center Power Sizing Calculator
• IT Equipment Cooling Calculator

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WAN Link Aggregation


2010
07.08

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Bandwidth Aggregation (also known as Link Balancing) also Automatic traffic failover on link or ISP failure for multiple ISPs. Additionally, it provides automatic VPN tunnel failover on most products. The products in this section all for Multi-homed ISP/WAN link failover even if your company cannot get BGP services. (If you do not know what this is, you most likely do not have BGP services from your ISPs.) Most of the products in this section work with your company’s DNS service to dynamically update the IP of the service hosted on the multiple ISPs so that the end user/client always receives content.

BIG-IP LINK CONTROLLER

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller helps you make the link aggregation. This helps us two ways, avoiding cost of higher bandwidth single link, second availability. Others we can say reliability and ROI of bandwidth. We don’t want to mention how importance the connectivity now.

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IT MNAGEMENT FROM YOUR SMARTPHONE


2010
07.04

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How to manage IT infrastructures from smart phone? More and more companies providing smart phones to employees, to extend the reach ability, access and productivity. We can manage the infrastructure through the smart phones. It supports wide range of smart phones. Rove Mobile Admin is one of the products in this category.

Feature Summary

Manage Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, IIS, SQL Server, DHCP, DNS, Cluster Server, System Center Operation Manager, and System Center Mobile Device Manager, RSA, Lotus Domino, Novell, Oracle, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, Citrix, HP iLO, Backup Exec and VMware Virtual Infrastructure servers, Nagios, BMC Remedy Service Desk, BMC Performance Manager Portal, Microsoft Hyper-V and create SSH/Telnet and RDP/VNC connections from your wireless handheld device or any computer.

Supported Clients
• BlackBerry smartphones
• Apple iPhone or iPod Touch devices
• Windows Mobile 6 smartphones
• Android OS 1.5+ devices

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Microsoft Exchange Server Reporting Tool


2010
07.01

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Exchange administrator required a tool for reporting. This gives traffic, storage, billing, mailbox content analysis, and outlook web access. Reporting tool should be very convenient, easy to use. Provide reports in various file types, agent installation not required in server, both graphical and tabular output, and individual mailbox selection. Also need to consider the costing of tool and easy to administration.

In this category I can recommend PRAMODAG. Gives all the reporting features, cost savings and easy administration. Below listed key features:-

The product is designed for simple, convenient, and effective user interaction.
• Reports come in tabular or graphical format with many configuration options to suit specific information requirements.
• Reports can be exported to different formats: HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, RTF, MHT.
• Reports can be sent by email, published in a public folder, a Web site or to a SharePoint document library.
• Individual mailbox reports can be automatically sent to the user or manager.
• Reports options can be saved for instant access using the Favorites menu.
• Mailboxes can be selected based on various Active Directory attributes (server, OU, department…).
• Reporting period can be restricted to specific days or business hours.
• Data collection, report generation, export and publication may be automated and scheduled.
• Data repository can be an Access or SQL Server database.

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