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Virtualization, although it may seem like a new trend in cloud computing, has been around for decades. Since the 1960s, when IBM’s mainframe era started, virtualization has been a crucial part of computing’s management. It made computing easier and more efficient. The technological advancements made since then have made virtualization possible. It can solve many…
How are you doing with Christmas shopping? Are you having difficulty finding the right gifts for your virtual team members? Here are my suggestions for gifts for project managers or anyone who works remotely. These items could also be suggested to you. Mugs for tea and coffee Remote working is here to stay, and this…
If you want to build and deliver cloud-based applications, it all starts with your computer. There are many benefits to outsourcing your compute power to a major cloud vendor. Cloud computing power can provide many benefits, including speed, agility, and potential cost savings. This allows businesses to focus on innovation, and not infrastructure. Cloud-based computing…
It’s week seven of the Maximising IT/IS Team Effectiveness course that I am taking at Villanova University. This week’s focus was on managing others, and creating an environment that encourages innovation. One lecture was about building resilience in your project team. Why do we need resiliency? IT projects can be challenging. Projects change constantly and…
This week, we looked at managing expectations in the Maximizing IT/IS Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University. The entire lecture was about damage control. It could have been titled “When Project Managers lie about Progress.” One contract manager that I knew reported that all his tasks had been completed by 80% of…
Testing is an integral part of IT professionals’ jobs. Administrators test server hardware, patches to the operating system, and configuration changes. Developers test the applications they have created. The proliferation of mobile devices has made testing more complicated in recent years. IT professionals must test on many platforms. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can assist…
In the previous column, we discussed how Amazon Web Services’ Simple Email Service (or SES) can be used to send various types of automated mail. I then showed you how to verify your e-mail address to use Amazon SES. Let me now show you how to use SES for bulk e-mail. Before I begin, I…
Related: Part 2 of Amazon SES for Bulk E-Mail Distribution If you’re like me, you likely receive a lot of bulk e mails every day. I’m not talking about spam. I mean things like advertisements from companies I do business with, e mail newsletters, and other such things. Many companies use bulk email to engage…
Unisys Corp. placed its Stealth micro-segmentation solution for security on the Amazon Web Services Inc. Unisys Stealth uses micro segmentsation to enact security policy. This is a new virtualization method that moves security measures away from network perimeters to fine-grained applications. It manages security by identity and not network topology. Unisys states that it virtualizes…
John Oden. You probably first learned about a Local Area Network (LAN) early in your journey into networking. A LAN is a group of devices that are connected to each other. Figure 1 shows a network for an organization that has several departments. Figure 1: A typical local area network (LAN) Problems with LANs Although…