Microsoft released a new poster that could make a nice addition to your server room or cubicle wall. It covers the cloud ecosystem options with Microsoft Azure and on-premise offerings like System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The poster summarizes different categories like storage, virtualization, file services, network services, and more. It helps give an … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2014
Internet Explorer will block out-of-date Java and other ActiveX controls
With an update today, Internet Explorer will block out-of-date ActiveX controls in 30 days. Old versions of Java will be the first control that will be blocked with others joining in the future. As a result, Internet Explorer 8-11 on Windows 7 SP1 and Internet Explorer (Desktop version) on Windows 8.X, as well as Windows Server versions, will now show a message when you try to … [Read more...]
Sysmon, a new utility from Sysinternals
The Windows Sysinternals team inside Microsoft released a new utility last week called Sysmon. It's a persistent system monitor that allows you to track Windows events even over a reboot and dumps the information into a Windows Event log. System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system … [Read more...]
Symantec describes cyber-threats to SMBs
Symantec shared an infographic to summarize some of the risks presented to small and mid-size businesses when it comes to cyber-crime. It covers business risk, BYOD, and protecting websites and business data. (Credit: Symantec, via Inc.com) If you are interested in this kind of information, you may also be interested in Symantec's 2014 Internet Security Threat Report, … [Read more...]
Pizza-As-A-Service helps explain today’s cloud
I saw this image posted on Twitter and realized there's some decent education value to it in addition to its humor. Using pizza, which we're all familiar with, it can explain the difference between different "cloud" implementations. It uses examples from traditional on-premise "private cloud" to infrastructure-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service to software-as-a-service. … [Read more...]