Current Web Threats – and Why you are still getting Viruses even with a well secured system.

12 years ago the SANS Institute in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a list of the Top 10 Web Threats at the time. At the top of that list is opening unsolicited e-mail attachments without verifying their source or checking their content. and number 2 on the list was failing to install security patches, especially for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape browsers. Installing screen savers or games from unknown sources is next, followed by not making and testing backups, and then using a modem while connected through a local area network Sadly 12 years later the Top 2 of those are still the top 2 issues today.

vSphere vs Hyper-V – A Quick look at what to consider when choosing the platform for your private cloud.

Right off the top one of the first thing you need to consider when it comes to virtualization scenarios is whether or not your current network infrastructure can support virtualization or not. Most server systems now days can support VM’s but its best to check into it first because if your current server system can not handle it then you are looking at a relatively hefty price tag 60k(CAD) and up for most basic configurations.

Tablets and The Enterprise.

Undoubtedly we have all seen the way today’s I.T. markets focus has inherently switched from Traditional Computer systems  to mobile devices. And with more and more companies adopting a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy is this a good or a bad thing?

Move to the Cloud – Pros and Cons from the Perspective of your friendly neighborhood SysAdmin

Unless you have been in a cave… Or possibly coma for the last 3 years; you have undoubtedly heard about the phenomenon known as the “Cloud”. For the people out there that are still a little hazy on what the Cloud actually is, the answer simply is the interweb. People do not realize that the Internet as it is known today is not what it was a decade ago, for all intents and purposes today even if someone wanted to it would be damn near impossible to shut down the Internet henceforth to be referred to as the interweb because it is no longer simply just a wide area network of computers, it is as of now a much more complex animal.

Mobile Computing – The inevitable death of the Desktop

Anyone who has seen the vastly watched YouTube video for Microsoft’s Vision of the future will know technology in general is light years ahead of what is openly available in todays market, but how far away is this technology really? Well I hope to answer that in part. In the last 3 years we have seen huge leaps in mobile computing, Tablets, a market that 4 years ago everyone thought was pointless and companies (HP, Sony, Samsung) had actually closed down entire divisions that were in place to make tablet pc’s and mobile devices more prominent. Then came the iPad.