This Week in Enterprise Tech 16

This Week in Enterprise Tech Episode 16

This Week in Enterprise Tech 16:

Padre introduces guest Louis Maresca from Microsoft to talk about Virtualization.

Technology Byte

Twitter Follower Purchasing

• Allows for businesses to get over the initial hump (off the ground) of followers
• Slippery slope, is it socially fraudulent?

Stuff my IT Guy Says

Fiber Optics

• Lots of types, Multi-mode, Single Mode, etc.
• Cost, throughput, and distance vary.
• Single Mode travels the furthest.
• Multi-mode can support 1 or 10Gbps.
• The laser in multi-mode is much more sensitive to distance/cable bends since multi-mode light bounces off the edges of the cable while single mode travels straight down the center.
• The size, ex. 62.5
• Never cut fiber or look at the light as it is often a laser.
• End of fiber needs to stay clean.

Virtualization

• Allows easier use of the cloud for servers
• Allows for more efficient use of hardware.
• Power supplies are not efficient at low power usage, additional power usage is where a PSU strives.
• CPUs get to be fully utilized even with multiple idling virtual servers.
• Centralizing servers in one off site data-center allows optimization of power and cooling.
• Startups are comfortable with data/services being stored in remote 3rd party virtual servers.

Compliance

• US Military runs SIPRNet and NIPRNet in the cloud.
• A lot of cloud based services and vendors incorporate CIPA and HIPPA compliance into their policies.
• VPNs with VLANs can limit access to virtual infrastructure resources.
• Hyper-V 2012 includes Bitlocker to create large nodes that have encrypted hard drives.

BYOD

• Thin clients can be used to save money on workstation thick clients, offloading software processing and updating to the server.

Considerations

• Do I need to manage all aspects?
• Assess requirements/needs (write them down).
• What uptime is required, SLAs can be negotiated.

Hardware & Software Mentions

• Fluke Fiber light generator.
• Microsoft Hyper-V

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Production Information

• Recorded Date: August 20, 2012
• Release Date: October 29, 2012
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