2010
07.19
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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Continuous Data Protection
CDP Demo
Tags: CDP, Continuous Data Protection, SonicWALL Category Backup, DISASTER, INFRASTRUCTURE, Network, RECOVERY, RISK, Storage |
2010
07.12
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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APC Tools
Tags: CCU, Data Centre, UPS Category INFRASTRUCTURE, Management |
2010
07.08
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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BIG-IP LINK CONTROLLER
Tags: BIG-IP, F5, Link Aggregation Category INFRASTRUCTURE, Network |
2010
07.04
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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Tags: Rove Mobile Admin Category INFRASTRUCTURE, Management, Network, Security |
2010
07.01
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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Tags: Pramodag Category EXCHANGE, INFRASTRUCTURE, Management, Storage, WINDOWS |
2010
06.29
Managing and protecting spam & virus of mail is very tough job for administrator. Day by day the treat is increasing. New methods of delivering spam mails. If you use any mail server or any size we required a spam & virus firewall solution. In market you receive different products; some of them are very difficult to administer, others slow down you mail transport, commercials of product (per mail box / per domain charges), lack of spam scoring, etc.
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution for complete protection of your email server. It provides a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solution to eliminating spam and viruses from your organization by providing the following protection:
• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spoofing
• Anti-phishing
• Anti-spyware (Attachments)
• Denial of Service
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protects your email server with twelve defense lawyers:
• Network Denial of Service Protection
• Rate Control
• IP Reputation Analysis
• Sender Authentication
• Recipient Verification
• Virus Scanning
• Policy (User-specified rules)
• Spam Fingerprint Check
• Intent Analysis
• Image Analysis
• Bayesian Analysis
• Rule-based Scoring
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Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall
Tags: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-spoofing, Barracuda, firewall, image analysis, IP reputation, rate controll, scoring, spam, virus Category EXCHANGE, FIREWALL, INFRASTRUCTURE, LINUX, Management, Network, Security |
2010
06.28
Collaboration and integration is one of the primary requirements of every organisation now. It increases the productivity, single platform for communication and interaction. Employees interact in three primary ways: conversations, transactions, and collaborations. Understanding their differences is necessary to ensure the appropriate software technology is employed to meet your needs. Conversational interaction is an exchange of information and transactional interaction is an exchange of transaction entity between two or more participants, while collaborative interaction is meant for a change of collaboration entity, ex.: achievement of a shared goal.
Collaborative software is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Collaboration software transform the way documents and rich media are shared in order to enable more effective team collaboration.
Benefits of Collaboration:-
• Provide access to all documents and tasks securely via intranet to internal team members, based upon their roles or individual permissions
• Maintain common and individual to do lists, projects and schedules to simplify the management of group activities
• Make tasks assignments and status visible and transparent by automatically sending and receiving appropriate notifications
• Build and work a visible action plan to achieve assigned goals and objectives, helping the organization be more strategic, less reactive in overall performance
• Organize and coordinate work effort, with reduced slip-ups, mistakes, errors due to miss-communication or verbal direction
Different products available in the market in collaboration segment. LIFERAY is one of the open source portal & collaboration solution. LIFERAY delivers open source enterprise solutions for portals, publishing, content and collaboration. Some high level features:-
1. Wikis
2. Message Boards
3. Blogs
4. Activity tracking
5. Instant Message
6. E-Mail
7. Shared Calendar
8. Announcements & Alerts
9. Polls
10. Document Library & Image Gallery
11. Integration with Microsoft office
12. Search & Tagging
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Tags: Document Library, Integration, LIFERAY, MS Office, Polls, Portal, Search, Wikis Category INFRASTRUCTURE, Management, PROJECT |
2010
06.24
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is standards based Web Single Sign-On (SSO) service that enables federated identity by implementing claims based authentication across forests. It is part of Windows Server 2003 R2 and later releases of Microsoft’s server Operating System as a server role.
Claims based authentication is the process of authenticating a user based on a set of claims about its identity contained in a trusted token. Such a token is often issued and signed by an entity that is able to authenticate the user by other means, and that is trusted by the entity doing the claims based authentication.
In ADFS, identity federation is established between two organizations by establishing trust between two security realms. A federation server on one side (the Accounts side) authenticates the user through the standard means in Active Directory Domain Services and then issues a token containing a series of claims about the user, including its identity. On the other side, the Resources side, another federation server validates the token and issues another token for the local servers to accept the claimed identity. This allows a system to provide controlled access to its resources or services to a user that belongs to another security realm without requiring the user to authenticate directly to the system and without the two systems sharing a database of user identities or passwords.
One of the biggest challenges an IT department can face comes when identities need to cross company boundaries. When your organization enters a relationship with another organization and anyone from one side needs access to resources on the other side, you need a way to establish a secure, trusted relationship. For Administrators this creates a dilemma. They don’t want to be giving administrative rights to people outside their organization, but at the same time they also do not want the additional burden of the extra identity management tasks for those, external people. But you do want to be able to use your current, Active Directory environment to provide single sign on.
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1. Cross Organization Single Sign-on Made Real With ADFS
2. Simplify Single Sign-on Using ADFS
Tags: ADFS, Authentication, SSO, Token Category INFRASTRUCTURE, Network, Security, WINDOWS |
2010
06.22
The increasing importance of mobile workers in today’s businesses has been acknowledged. The mobile worker population is split into three main segments, home-based mobile workers, office-based mobile workers and non-office-based mobile workers.
Organisations should develop a proactive policy and strategy that embraces new ideas and methods to create a secure mobile workplace. “Secure mobility” is typically defined as the ability to provide employees and customers with secure “anytime, anywhere, any device” access to the corporate network.
One typical security problem that remote users may encounter is the transfer of viruses or other malware via memory cards or sync connections from infected mobile devices to laptops. Then, when infected laptops plug into a corporate network, there is the potential of further infection of internal corporate resources, possibly causing substantial damage to valuable and sensitive information. However, this is not the only security problem affecting mobile devices. The loss of data privacy that can result from a misplaced, stolen, or improperly used phone can also severely compromise corporate information.
Educate employees to use only devices that are provided by company. There are technologies to prevent unauthorised access to the network. For example, Network Admission Control (NAC) enforces policy for remote devices connecting to the corporate network, and Wireless detection devices Install wireless detection technology on your wireless networks to monitor unauthorised wireless users and the deployment of rogue access points.
There are technologies to prevent compromise of the endpoint: Client Security Software’s, Host-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention Software (IDS/IPS), and Anti-Spywares. There are technologies to prevent information loss or data loss or exposure to information: Data Encryption, and Information/Data Leak Prevention (ILP / DLP) software’s. Monitor compliance with your organisation’s mobile policy
Benefits of Mobile workers:-
1. Improved employee productivity.
2. Eliminating traditional work boundaries and creating a more flexible workspace.
3. Improved client interactions.
Category DISASTER, FIREWALL, INFRASTRUCTURE, IT Policy, Management, Network, RECOVERY, Security |
2010
06.20
Considering the physical security, most organisations keep a surveillance camera, security guard and door access control. This we seen normal in physical security side. But physical security is more extended considering its threat. Threats to physical security come in many forms including natural disasters, emergency situations, and man-made threats. All possible threats must be identified in order to perform a complete and thorough risk analysis and to develop an appropriate and effective control strategy.
Some of the more common threats to physical security include:-
1. Fire
2. Water
3. Earthquakes
4. Severe weather
5. Electricity
6. Lightning strikes
7. Sabotage/terrorism/war/theft/vandalism
8. Equipment failure
9. Loss of communications and utilities
10. Personnel loss
Organisation need to build proper and adequate mechanism to protect information from these security threats.
Category DISASTER, INFRASTRUCTURE, Management, RECOVERY, Security |
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