...NT1210: Introduction to Networking_V1.0 | Virtual Computing | Comparing Microsoft and VMware solutions | | Jacob D. Smith | 10/21/2015 | | With so many features called by differing names in each virtualization platform, comparing Microsoft and VMware virtualization solutions can sometimes seem a bit like comparing apples and oranges. But, I’ll try to boil things down to a real-world perspective based on my experience implementing both solutions in the field throughout my career. In this article, I’ll provide a summarized comparison of the feature sets provided by each of these latest releases using the currently available public information from both Microsoft and VMware as of this article’s publication date for additional reference. How to compare? Rather than simply comparing feature-by-feature using just simple check-marks in each category, I’ll try to provide as much detail as possible for you to intelligently compare each area. As I’m sure you’ve heard before, sometimes the “devil is in the details”. For each comparison area, I’ll rate the related capabilities with the following color coded rankings: * Supported – Fully supported without any additional products or licenses * Limited Support – Significant limitations when using related feature, or limitations in comparison to the competing solution represented * Not Supported – Not supported at all or without the addition of other product licensing costs In this Essay, I’ve organized...
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...Virtual Computing There is a lot of competition with Microsoft and VMware solutions. It’s almost like a similar rivalry as in Ford versus Chevrolet or Joe Frazier versus Mahammad Ali in the bout of the century. Both are very competitive and defiantly have something to fear from one another. The battle for server virtualization and cloud computing markets is at hand and either entity is giving up without a fight. VMware has been an extremely difficult company to beat when it comes to things such as stability, security and overall market share. Microsoft likes to show off its Heterogeneous hypervisor management capability where as VMware V Center lacks basic management functions for vSphere environments. VSphere host, resource pools and storage and networking are some examples. VMware also has an advantage over Microsoft by advising people that SCvMM requires vCenter Server to manage vSphere environments, which results in much higher cost and complex processes and procedures. VMare has had technology speak as its own voice while challenging Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor which is becoming very competitive and becoming a new and rising threat in the server virtualization market. VMware solutions know that by now it is the time for them to act in order for them to maintain their competitive place in the market. So Which one of these are better? Bogomil Balkansky Vice president of product marketing, Virtualization and Cloud Platform at VMware product marketing, Virtualization...
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...NETWORKING WEEK 5 ESSAY Microsoft and VMware Comparison Tyler Reed In today’s world of cloud storage, cloud computing, and virtualization; I think it is important to understand what virtualization is before comparing the different options. Virtualization first started in the 1960’s as a way to logically divide the system resources provided by mainframe computers between different applications. It is very important to remember that computer strength and hardware performance wasn’t as strong or efficient when this method was introduced. While today’s smartphones are inherently stronger than the best computer during that time, the base problem still exists. Mainly because of the amount of resources needed to run multiple applications, allow server access to potentially thousands of computers and devices accessing the same computer or hardware. Since the concept’s inception the meaning has broadened into hardware virtualization, mobile virtualization, and desktop virtualization. Virtualization has helped organizations reduce cost and increase efficiency in the data center. New virtualization products allow for different benefits and challenges and must be carefully considered for businesses to realize the long term benefits, such as increasing user productivity and decreasing IT costs. Microsoft has the largest range of desktop virtualization and management products that can be integrated into a flexible solution for many different scenarios. Microsoft uses a suite approach...
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...Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide © 2011 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. This product is covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/download/patents.html. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. VMware, Inc 3401 Hillview Ave Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.vmware.com © 2011 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 70 Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 1.1 Purpose .......................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Target Audience ............................................................................................................. 7 1.3 Scope ............................................................................................................................. 8 2. VMware ESX Host Best Practices for Exchange .............................. 9 2.1 CPU Configuration Guidelines ....................................................................................... 9 2.2 Memory...
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...VMWARE, INC. FORMReport) 10-K (Annual Filed 02/28/11 for the Period Ending 12/31/10 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE PALO ALTO, CA 94304 (650) 427-5000 0001124610 VMW 7372 - Prepackaged Software Software & Programming Technology 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2011, EDGAR Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online, Inc. Terms of Use. Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 Form 10-K (Mark One) ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 OR TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For transition period from to Commission File Number 001-33622 VMWARE, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA (Address of principal executive offices) (650) 427-5000 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Name of each exchange on which registered Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 New York Stock Exchange Securities registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by a check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned...
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...SOLUTIONS GUIDE The Splunk Guide to Operational Intelligence Turn Machine-Generated Data Into Real-Time Visibility, Insight and Intelligence What is Splunk® Enterprise? Splunk Enterprise is the leading platform for realtime operational intelligence. It’s the easy, fast and secure way to search, analyze and visualize the massive streams of machine data generated by your IT systems and technology infrastructure—physical, virtual and in the cloud. Use Splunk Enterprise and your machine data to deliver new levels of visibility, insight and intelligence for IT and the business. wire data, web servers, custom applications, application servers, hypervisors, GPS systems, stock market feeds, social media, sensors and preexisting structured databases. It gives you a real-time understanding of what’s happening and deep analysis of what’s happened across your IT systems and technology infrastructure, so you can make informed decisions. Splunk Enterprise has many critical uses across IT and the business: Application Delivery: provide end-to-end visibility across distributed infrastructures; troubleshoot across application environments; monitor for performance degradation; trace transactions across distributed systems and infrastructure Security, Compliance and Fraud: provide rapid incident response, real-time correlation and in-depth monitoring across data sources; conduct statistical analysis for advance pattern detection and threat defense Infrastructure and Operations Management: proactively...
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...Company, L.P. Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.21 and 12.212, Commercial 1 Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Acknowledgements Microsoft® and Windows® are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Warranty To obtain a copy of the warranty for this product, see the warranty information website: http://www.hp.com/go/storagewarranty Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................7 HP 3PAR Storage Concepts and Terminology...............................................................................7 Physical Disks......................................................................................................................8...
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...A Framework for assessing solutions to green cloud computing Thi Hong Nhung Huynh MSc Computing and Management 2010/2011 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is their own and the appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. I understand that failure to attribute material which is obtained from another source may be considered as plagiarism. (Signature of student) Abstract Cloud computing is a breakthrough innovation in information technology industry. It brings new efficiencies and advantages to business. There is much hype about environmental impacts of cloud computing on green issues. Some favour of cloud computing as solution to green issues while others blame cloud computing as burden to environmental problems. Cloud computing, nevertheless, like other technology, is neutral. It can be either cause or solution to environmental issues. There is growing pressure on cloud computing industry to reduce the environmental impacts of their data centres. The current trend focuses on developing green cloud computing. However, the evaluation of solutions to green cloud computing bases on certain standards, metrics and benchmarks, which assess only parts of the environmental issues with cloud computing. This report will concentrate on green issues with cloud computing. Significant positive and negative impacts of cloud computing on the environment issues will be investigated. Next, a classification of green issues...
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...Penetration testing Penetration testing A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman San Francisco Penetration testing. Copyright © 2014 by Georgia Weidman. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. Printed in USA First printing 18 17 16 15 14 123456789 ISBN-10: 1-59327-564-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-564-8 Publisher: William Pollock Production Editor: Alison Law Cover Illustration: Mertsaloff/Shutterstock Interior Design: Octopod Studios Developmental Editor: William Pollock Technical Reviewer: Jason Oliver Copyeditor: Pamela Hunt Compositor: Susan Glinert Stevens Proofreader: James Fraleigh Indexer: Nancy Guenther For information on distribution, translations, or bulk sales, please contact No Starch Press, Inc. directly: No Starch Press, Inc. 245 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 phone: 415.863.9900; fax: 415.863.9950; info@nostarch.com; www.nostarch.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weidman, Georgia. Penetration testing : a hands-on introduction to hacking / Georgia Weidman. pages cm Includes index. ISBN 978-1-59327-564-8 (paperback) -- ISBN 1-59327-564-1 (paperback) 1. Penetration testing (Computer security) 2. Kali Linux. 3. Computer hackers. QA76.9.A25W4258 2014 005.8'092--dc23 2014001066...
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...strategy Judith Hurwitz Robin Bloor Marcia Kaufman Fern Halper Get More and Do More at Dummies.com ® Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! To access the Cheat Sheet created specifically for this book, go to www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/cloudcomputing Get Smart at Dummies.com Dummies.com makes your life easier with 1,000s of answers on everything from removing wallpaper to using the latest version of Windows. Check out our • Videos • Illustrated Articles • Step-by-Step Instructions Plus, each month you can win valuable prizes by entering our Dummies.com sweepstakes. * Want a weekly dose of Dummies? Sign up for Newsletters on • Digital Photography • Microsoft Windows & Office • Personal Finance & Investing • Health & Wellness • Computing, iPods & Cell Phones • eBay • Internet • Food, Home & Garden Find out “HOW” at Dummies.com *Sweepstakes not currently available in all countries; visit Dummies.com for official rules. Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, and Dr. Fern Halper Cloud Computing For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced...
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...Firewalls 17 June 2014 ID:G00259365 Analyst(s): Jeremy D'Hoinne, Adam Hils, Greg Young, Joseph Feiman VIEW SUMMARY The WAF market is growing quickly from a small base; it is composed of pure players, application delivery controller vendors, cloud service providers and network security vendors. Buyers should evaluate how WAFs can provide high security, minimize false positives and sustain performance. STRATEGIC PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS At the end of 2018, less than 20% of enterprises will rely only on firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to protect their Web applications — down from 40% today. By year-end 2020, more than 50% of public Web applications protected by a WAF will use WAFs delivered as a cloud service or Internet-hosted virtual appliance — up from less than 10% today. Market Definition/Description The Web application firewall (WAF) market is defined by a customer's need to protect internal and public Web applications when they are deployed locally (on-premises) or remotely (hosted, "cloud" or "as a service"). WAFs are deployed in front of Web servers to protect Web applications against hackers' attacks, to monitor access to Web applications, and to collect access logs for compliance/auditing and analytics. WAFs are most often deployed in-line, as a reverse proxy, because historically it was the only way to perform some in-depth inspections. Other deployment modes exist, such as transparent proxy, bridge mode, or the WAF being positioned out of band (OOB) and...
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...Server Overview O B J E C T I V E D O M A I N M AT R I X SKILLS/CONCEPTS Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Introducing Server Roles Comparing Physical Servers and Virtual Servers Selecting Server Hardware Identifying Methods to Install Windows Servers MTA EXAM OBJECTIVE Understand server installation options. Identify application servers. Understand server virtualization. Identify major server hardware components. Understand Windows updates. LE SS ON 1 MTA EXAM OBJECTIVE NUMBER 1.3 2.1 2.5 5.1 6.3 LICENSED PRODUCT NOT FOR RESALE KEY TERMS BIOS clean installation disk cloning drives firmware motherboard network connections ports power supply processor RAM server Server Core server features server role system preparation tool unattended installation upgrade installation virtual server Windows activation Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Windows updates You just got hired at the Acme Corporation. They have several Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Servers and a Windows Server 2008 Server. While talking to your management team, you determine that you need to upgrade all of the servers to Windows Server 2008 R2 and you need to create a web farm consisting of three new web servers and a single back end SQL server, also running Windows Server 2008 R2. You need to figure out the best way to accomplish your goal. 1 2 | Lesson 1 ■ Understanding What a Server Does With today’s computers, any computer on the network can provide services or request...
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...GROUP PROJECT April, 2012 Executive Summary: Information Technology has become a necessity and inseparable entity of any organization. Whether large or small, any organization if it seeks to achieve efficient and effective performance and thus leading to high productivity and profitability, it has to implement and deploy optimal ICT practice. The report examines the ICT infrastructure that is utilized and deployed at Bahrain Polytechnic, which is one of the leading and well-established public universities in Bahrain. It attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of how ICT is implemented within the institution in regard to the physical infrastructure, systems, applications, networking and all other technical issues that are relevant to the ICT implementation and operations. Through the journey of investigating all aspects and concepts of ICT at Bahrain Polytechnic, this report tries of shed light on and assess the ICT services provided to the staff as well as to the customers who are the students. As it is the case to any organization, Bahrain polytechnic’s main aim of implementing best ICT practices is to ensure the best learning environment to the students and improve their performance and achievement as well as facilitate the performance of both the tutors and other staff. All this can maintain the institution’s competitive edge and place it amongst the most distinguished and pioneering universities in Bahrain. By carrying out surveys, observations and face-to-face...
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...SMash: Secure Component Model for Cross-Domain Mashups on Unmodified Browsers Frederik De Keukelaere, Sumeer Bhola, Michael Steiner, Suresh Chari, Sachiko Yoshihama {eb41704, sachikoy}@jp.ibm.com, {sbhola, msteiner, schari}@us.ibm.com IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA ABSTRACT Mashup applications mix and merge content (data and code) from multiple content providers in a user’s browser, to provide high-value web applications that can rival the user experience provided by desktop applications. Current browser security models were not designed to support such applications and they are therefore implemented with insecure workarounds. In this paper, we present a secure component model, where components are provided by different trust domains, and can interact using a communication abstraction that allows ease of specification of a security policy. We have developed an implementation of this model that works currently in all major browsers, and addresses challenges of communication integrity and frame-phishing. An evaluation of the performance of our implementation shows that this approach is not just feasible but also practical. The technology discussed in this paper allows mutually mistrusting client-side components to communicate safely without any modifications to current browsers, and hence has the potential to achieve immediate and widespread adoption. Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.2.0 [General]: Protection...
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...This page was intentionally left blank This page was intentionally left blank Hands-On Ethical Hacking and Network Defense Second Edition Michael T. Simpson, Kent Backman, and James E. Corley ———————————————————————— Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. This is an electronic version of the print textbook. Due to electronic rights restrictions, some third party content may be suppressed. Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. The publisher reserves the right to remove content from this title at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. For valuable information on pricing, previous editions, changes to current editions, and alternate formats, please visit www.cengage.com/highered to search by ISBN#, author, title, or keyword for materials in your areas of interest. Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated...
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