Virtualization has changed nearly everything in the data center including servers, network, storage and DR. A few years back, I heard the phrase that in IT, there is a “virtual version of virtually everything”. No doubting that the phrase rings true today. In this part, I would like to take...
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Steve Stavridis
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Jan 9, 2013
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I’ve always been interested in the PlateSpin products and a little while ago I sat down with Frank Moore to discuss his PlateSpin Migrate session at ATT Live . For anyone who does not know, PlateSpin Migrate decouples workloads from their underlying server infrastructure and automatically copies...
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Mar 26, 2012
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We are just returning from a busy week in San Francisco at Security BSides and the RSA Conference , where we introduced our new SIEM solution: NetIQ Sentinel 7 with the power and simplicity to achieve the promise of SIEM. It was great meeting so many of you at these and our other events in February,...
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David Shephard
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Mar 2, 2012
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Filed under: AppManager, Training, London, Secure Configuration Manager, Security, Gartner, RSA Conference, NetIQ, Avaya, Unix, Nortel, Cisco, Vivinet Assessor, Vivinet Diagnostics, Cloud Computing, SANS, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Compliance, Identity and Access Management, IAM, Virtualization, UC, UK, France, Texas, Cloud Manager, Governance, Windows, ISSA, WorkloadIQ, Webcast, VoIP Management, USAF, BSidesSF, Data Centre, SANS CDI, Sentinel 7, EMEA, Cloud Management, Summit, Microsoft Lync, San Antonio, Security BSides, Florida, RSAC, Unified Communications, SIEM, En francais, Orlando, US Air Force, SQL, IIS, David Shephard, Drop
On September 14th we hosted along with the leading independent community for IT professionals deploying Microsoft Windows server and client applications and technologies: Windows IT Pro , the webcast Managing Active Directory for Data Integrity & Security with guest speaker Darren Mar-Elia , creator...
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David Shephard
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Sep 26, 2011
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Hidden within the jumble of a mixed platform data center is a secret. All those virtual resources can actually be used for more than simply virtual machine recovery. One wonderful thing about virtualization is that virtual machines can be used to run many different types of workloads. This flexibility...
It is July and the second half of the year has commenced, and in the Northern Hemisphere the hot sultry dog days of summer are about to start (actually, here in the Houston they've been around for a while). This July we have a busy schedule of NetIQ events, conferences, webcasts, gatherings and training...
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David Shephard
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Jul 1, 2011
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A multi platform data center is no longer an exception and in fact has become quite normal. There was a time, long ago and far away, when most data centers were pretty homogeneous. All of the 'stuff' residing there typically came from one vendor. This made things pretty easy to manage. One set...
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Jason Dea
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Jun 16, 2011
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One of the hardest parts in adopting a systems management platform is figuring out what to monitor and how to monitor it. Sure, there will critical systems that get a top priority, but what about other components that aren't regarded as highly important but still play a part of the overall technology...