To roll out an IT service or business application into production, companies customize standard application packages, or go ahead and develop the entire application inhouse. In either case, applications go through a rigorous release management cycle, before it is put in to production. This is pretty much similar to the process applied to production systems, that need to be patched or updated.
Microsoft recently released the Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows Server 2008 R2. In its war with VMWare in the Virtualization sector, Microsoft has decided to showcase its own developments in the Windows Server virtualization platform via two key features: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Both of which are now available via the SP1 Beta update.
Sometimes, one is just not enough. When you’ve got one server with rocketing performance, you could very well make the maximum utilization of it. Obviously, I’m talking about Virtualization. We’ve had quite a lot of products out there in the market. Many of them proprietary and a few, free. I have read once, “A nice product which is free is better than a great product which costs.” But today, my choice is one awesome product which is free, and is absolutely fabulous. I’m going to talk about my own favorite Virtualization Solution- KVM.
This primarily Web Hosting event is held every year, sponsored mainly by Parallels for their customers and partners. Bobcares.com was there as well, and I managed to talk to some people about innovative ideas that their companies introduced during the event.
Many attendees may remember me walking around and asking questions. If you were interviewed and do not appear in the video, don’t despair. Your interview could appear in future releases 
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Sangeetha Naik
Sangeetha Naik is co-Founder and Director, Poornam (Bobcares). With 9 years of experience in the Web Hosting industry, she speaks in various conferences about how Web Hosts can cost effectively setup and run their Support Operations.
This primarily Web Hosting event was held this year at beautiful Miami, FL. Bobcares.com was there as well, and I managed to talk to some people about what they thought of WebHosting and where it was going.
Many attendees may remember me walking around and asking questions. If you were interviewed and do not appear in the video, don’t despair. Your interview could appear in future releases .
Sangeetha Naik is co-Founder and Director, Poornam (Bobcares). With 9 years of experience in the Web Hosting industry, she speaks in various conferences about how Web Hosts can cost effectively setup and run their Support Operations.
“Please close this issue and pat yourself on the head, next time we will just come straight to you guys. You guys are life savers. Next time I’m in town I would like to kiss the man or woman who fixed this issue. Can i send you a fruit basket or something?”
The above is a thanks reply one of our techs got after fixing an issue. This is something we all love to hear over and over again. But how do we make sure this happens not once .. but often? This article gives you an insight into how you can make it an habit. Read the rest of this entry »
Talk about server virtualization, you go on talking about Virtuozzo, Xen, VMWare Server etc. This article aims to present another virtualization application offered by Microsoft - Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
A couple of attractive features about Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 are: it is available free of cost and also it supports the usage of Microsoft Windows as well as Linux distributions as guest operating systems.
The term high availability is the buzz word nowadays. Nobody tolerates downtime, whether it is the owner of a web site, owner of a server or owner of a data center. The challenge is how you can offer the least down time and the term “high availbility”, has it all.
DRBD refers to “Distributed Replicated Block Device” and is used for building high availability (HA) clusters. This can be attained by mirroring or replicating a block device via network. DRBD can be considered as equivalent to a RAID 1 setup.
A review of the Web Hosting industry shows that Virtualization is the rage these days. The ability to collapse computing resources into abstraction layers enables greater flexibility and storage. This article introduces Xen Virtual Private Server(VPS), advantages, comparison to similar technologies and primarily why we should choose Xen Technology. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been using and recommending Xen for Full Virtualization for a while now. Yet, when I tried to install Xen on my old PC that ran on AMD’s Athlon XP processor, I was not able to enable Full Virtualization using Xen. I know that Xen uses technology that demands higher hardware specifications to provide full virtualization. Somehow, I wanted to make my old PC a fully virtualized machine. I evaluated a few virtualization applications to make that possible. A few of them were..
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