Cloud

The Future of the IT Pro and the IT Architect

by Marlon Duminy 25 October 2011 Business

So last week I attended Tech-Ed Africa 2011 and had to trek all the way to Durban on South Africa’s east coast, where it became as clear as the lovely South African blue skies … Microsoft is punting their  Cloud offering in extra-large doses. One of the first talks I attended turned out be an [...]

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Tagged as: Architechture, feedback, Teched, Teched Africa

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Are the clouds gone yet?

by Robby Pedrica 10 September 2011 Cloud

It seems that Microsoft ( and others ) is intent on validating my cynical view of clouds. The latest Microsoft outage ( last night and this morning again ) was caused by what the company vaguely called a “DNS issue” and affected not just Office 365 but also the consumer services Hotmail and SkyDrive. The [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, internet, virtualization

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The Cloud, Security and IT skills

by Robby Pedrica 6 September 2011 Applications

Seeing as everyone is writing about Cloud Computing lately, I thought I’d rehash some of my concerns about this ‘new’  technology. New in parenthesis because the idea is actually quite old, coming from the time-sharing Unix systems of the 60′s and 70′s. Cloud obviously takes this to a new level ( supposedly with non-stop availability [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, Security, virtualization

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Feedback: Debunking the Cloud in SA

by Marlon Duminy 5 September 2011 Applications

For my first official contribution to ITPRO Africa I deemed it appropriate to comment about the ITPRO Africa Cloud Computing Event held in Cape Town on Thurs 1 September. As a server and network administrator for a fairly large South African corporation, it’s not something that gets discussed. Cloud Computing is generally referred to in [...]

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Tagged as: Cape Town, Cloud, events, feedback, Microsoft, mimecast, office 365

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NetApp and VMware View 5,000-Seat Performance Report #Netapp #vmware #vdi

by Mahmoud Magdy 5 September 2011 Citrix

I got evolved in the past few months in designing and implementing large VDI solution, that will be weird for an Exchange MVP but I love the virtualization technology and couldn’t resist the temptation. one of the most ugly parts of the VDI project is the storage design, in fact every VDI architect knows that [...]

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Tagged as: Citrix, Cloud, design, iops, netapp, performance, storage, vdi, vmware

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Office 365–12 differences between the E1 and P1 plans

by Nicolas Blank 31 August 2011 Cloud

E1 and P1 share a number of similarities, and at face value you may this the two are the same product, and wonder why the difference in the sticker price. Let’s look at some of the features shared by both plans 25GB mailbox Invitations for 50 external users to SharePoint Online Invitations for 250 users [...]

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The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of [...]

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Exchange Deployment Assistant adds “Cloud Only”

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

Before you think that Microsoft no longer support an on-premise version of Exchange, be aware that this is a new option in the Existing Exchange Deployment Assistant. Quoting from the entry on the Microsoft Exchange Blog: To help you sort through the available options and plan your migration to the cloud, we’re happy to announce [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, Exchange 2010

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ITPRO AFRICA Cape Town Registration site has gone live

by Nicolas Blank 17 August 2011 Anouncements

ITPRO AFRICA is pleased to announce that the registration site for the event entitled:  ITPRO AFRICA-Cape Town: Debunking Cloud in the South African Context- What it is and what it isn’t. to be held on the 1’st of September has gone live. The registration link, times and directions may be found here: http://itproafricacpt.eventbrite.com/ Share this [...]

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The Future of hosted Exchange

by Nicolas Blank 11 August 2011 Cloud

If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have [...]

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