It came from Redmond: Windows Server 2016 could rattle the competition. A couple of decades ago, Microsoft was the kaiju of network computing. First came MS-DOS, and Windows soon followed. Each simply took over business desktops. Before Novell knew what hit it, Windows was then infused with the DNA of OS/2 and became Windows NT and in turn NT Server. Novell had dominated the early PC networking market, but by the end of the 1990s the company was a shadow of its former self. Like a special breed of kaiju, Microsoft's server platform keeps on mutating, incorporating the DNA of its competitors in sometimes strange ways. In 2016, it's happening again. Though, just as our favorite giant monsters are continually misunderstood by the masses, Windows Server 2016 is not likely to be universally embraced.
But Server 2016's take on each of its roles is fairly solid and (relatively) easy to use compared to the alternatives—especially if you've already got PowerShell veterans around. One programming note Scaling up the beast. It came from Redmond: Windows Server 2016 could rattle the competition. Why are there so many Windows Server 2003 stragglers? Windows Server 2003 is almost out of support, and many of us simply don't have the option to upgrade to a newer operating system. In some cases this problem is self-imposed. In others it is the result of events beyond our control. Either way, there are millions of businesses – mostly small businesses – who simply don't have the option to upgrade even if they wanted to. An inability to upgrade to a newer operations system is usually down to a business critical application not being ready for upgrade.
In a perfect world, we'd all simply migrate to supported applications. I've seen plenty of situations where industry specific software replacements simply don't exist. Markets tend to go one of two ways. The other option is economic entropy. This latter economic option is reasonably common in Canada. There is no money in a software house rewriting the software on spec and then trying to sell it into that market because none of the companies in that market have any money. Legal considerations. The Great Windows Server 2003 migration: How to plan your trip. Think switching OS is bad? There are just weeks left to migrate away from Windows Server 2003 before support for the operating system runs out.
At this point, if a CIO hasn’t yet taken action, CEOs should be getting involved. After all, if a business is insecure and non-compliant, that’s a corporate governance issue On July 14, support for Windows Server 2003 ends, and almost one in four Microsoft servers are still running the 12 year-old software, according to Microsoft. A March survey by Spiceworks said that just 15 per cent of Windows Server 2003 had already made the switch, with another half partially there. Twenty-eight per cent were still planning, while eight per cent said they weren’t going to bother. Half of those respondents were from North America. That’s before we even get to the provinces. And estimates from Microsoft in Canada suggest that up to 380,000 servers could be at risk there. This leads to perhaps the most obvious reason to upgrade: security. Compliance issues.
iTop - Home. GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique. Redmine demo. Redmine Review: Open Source Project Management. Basic features Redmine is an open source project management tool that can help you effectively keep track of projects within your group. This means that you can utilize the tool for free while making your own programming adjustments to further fit your needs. With a variety of plugins to choose from, your project can be managed with a full array of functionality. Key features Redmine can be used as an online or intranet source for your project management. Redmine allows users to create wikis and forums on a per project basis. Integrated with Gantt chart and calendar systems, you can create reports based on a variety of variables in order to give graphical representation to the data.
Customization is also a part of Redmine. Platforms and synchronization Redmine is a browser-based app allowing virtually any computer than can connect to the service whether online or locally through the web browser of choice. Comparison of project management software. The Rationale Behind Soaring App Development Prices. Editor’s note: Ashwin Ramasamy is the founder of ContractIQ, a marketplace that matches enterprises and startups with agencies for app development, product engineering and analytics services. During the last quarter of 2014, we were approached by a funded startup based in Boston to identify an app development company to build an app for their European launch. The skill sets were quite niche, and the yearly spend would cross $100K, so we had to approach platform evangelists to identify some development studios that they’d recommend based on first-hand experience. We picked the Australia and Indonesia markets because we knew we had to provide some choice at both ends of the spectrum, and the startup had an Australian connection.
The platform company’s Australian and Singaporean offices recommended their preferred teams in the above markets, based on first-hand experience of launching some very popular apps. Let’s consider two supply-side markets: India and Indonesia. Source: Statistica. The best FREE data modeling tool ever | Oracle Data Warrior. Yup, I said FREE! Oracle just released the latest and greatest version of SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) and it is free to the world to not only download but to use in your production environment to develop all your models.
As many of you know, I have been using this tool for several years now and have mentioned it many times on various LinkedIn forums (just search for me and check out my activity). I have used SDDM for both Oracle and SQL Server. For forward engineering and reverse engineering. For conceptual, logical, and physical data models. I think it is a great tool (even if it was not free). I loved Oracle Designer and got quite good at that, but once shops stopped buying and using Designer (and Oracle pretty much sun-setted the tool), I suffered for a few years using other tools. I was a very happy camper when Oracle came out with this new data modeling tool. The one I like the most, so far, is the visual editor they added for defining views. Neat! Pretty cool. Nice job guys. Kent. No deadline extension for Windows Server 2003 end of support. The July 14, 2015, deadline for which Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2003 is final and will not be extended.
And with fewer than 100 days to go, the software vendor is intensifying its efforts to encourage enterprises in Asia-Pacific to move to its latest version of the platform, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Azure. End of support means there will be no security updates, no compliance, and no safe haven, cautioned Vasily Malanin, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific datacenter product management lead for cloud and enterprise, during a media briefing in Singapore. Noting that all software requires some form of maintenance, he said 37 critical updates were released in 2013 for Windows Server 2003 and its R3 version. These will no longer be provided for organizations still running the OS after July 14, Malanin said, adding that these servers will not pass compliance audits.
There also would be no safe haven support for applications running on the OS likely would be discontinued, he said. IBM thinks inside Blue Box with OpenStack private-cloud purchase. IBM has snatched OpenStack cloud floater Blue Box, a 12-year-old firm delivering private cloud as a service. IBM claimed the marriage of the Big Blue and Blue Box would help it speed deployment of private clouds and simplify management of OpenStack clouds. Blue Box will be deployed to Bluemix, IBM’s programme to build, manage and run clouds using an implementation of the platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry.
IBM said the move further accelerates its commitment to open technologies and OpenStack. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. The giant claims it has 500 developers dedicated to working on cloud projects. It was the second major OpenStack snatch of the day, as Cisco bought one of the originators of this supposed Linux for the cloud – Piston Cloud. Piston Cloud was started by one of the brains behind the NASA Nebula Cloud Computing Platform that became the compute portion of OpenStack in 2010.
Blue Box was founded in 2003 by entrepreneur Jesse Proudman as a hosting firm. Don't panic as Server 2003 rushes towards end of life. It is time to upgrade. In about a month Server 2003 will receive its farewell set of patches and reach the end of its officially supported life. You have been putting off the upgrades. I have been putting off the upgrades. With the weekends left to do this quickly evaporating, what's the checklist? Making a single checklist for all companies is probably not feasible. Addressing the technical issues related to migration is easy. Addressing the organisation and political issues is hard.
That said, migrations left until this late in the game tend to break down into roughly four categories. Unlike with client operating systems, you don't just shove an upgrade CD into your server. The changes between Server 2003 and Server 2008 were so major that the only way to migrate is to build a new system and move the applications, settings and so forth across. Unless they need 16-bit applications, few companies are using Server 2008 today. Plain sailing This doesn't mean migration will be easy or cheap. IT BRAIN. Come iniziare: facile e veloce. Excel dropdown menu. It's the end of life as we know it for Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2003 will pass out of Microsoft support on July 14, 2015. Different organisations report different numbers, but all agree that there are millions of Server 2003 servers still running in the wild. Microsoft says there are 11 million Server 2003 servers still running.
Gartner says eight million. Several internet searches bring up various other numbers, but I think it is safe to say somewhere between five and 15 million Server 2003 servers are still out there. My hunch is that Gartner is under-estimating here. The analyst focuses on enterprises and on the whole wouldn’t care if small businesses were all to get flushed into the sun. A Spiceworks poll of workplaces reports that 57 per cent of respondents have at least one Server 2003 instance still running.
One study looking at un-migrated numbers specific to the UK finds 400,000 units yet to receive TLC there. Another poll from late last year says one fifth of businesses will miss the mark. Tales of the unexpected Bad vibrations. Windows Server 2003 end of support draws ever closer. Regcast Sign up RIGHT NOW to watch The Register’s how-to Regcast on coping with Windows Server 2003 End of Service (EoS). Watch this live, on June 12 at 11:00 BST - if you can't make it, just sign up and we will email you when the recording is available.
Handy synopsis for you Flash forward to a time when we rest contentedly in the lounge of the Expectant Vulture Retirement Community, reminiscing about our days in the data centre. As you sit little Hadoop and Uber, your adoring grandchildren, on your knee you see that something ails them. What is it, you ask, that troubles the little mites so? “Pray tell us, elderly relative,” they ask, “what did you do during Windows Server 2003 end of support?” What will you tell them you did on 14 July 2015? That you crossed your fingers and hoped that there weren’t unpatched Server 2003 boxen in some dusty corner of the data centre, when you secretly knew there were? Or that you unplugged the server, took the week off and hoped that nobody noticed? VMware beta testing database-as-a-service based on SQL Server. VMware is beta testing a database-as-a-service offering running SQL Server 2008 R2 & 2012.
VMware documents sighted by The Register suggest the new service will be called “vCloud Air SQL” and will initially target test and dev scenarios, but also offer a warm failover option for those seeking a disaster recovery option for their on-premises databases. Virtzilla thinks that the service will also be able to handle non-critical workloads, but will in time grow to handle production apps. It's already possible to run SQL server on VMware's vCloud Air service, but in self-provisioning mode. VMware now appears to be testing the full as-a-service caper to add to its cloudy service catalog. Beta testers were sought for the service in early April, but those willing to ride the crash test dummy have been warned that any databases they deploy will not survive the service's transition to general availability. The slide below outlines more of the beta's – and presumably the eventual service's - features. Microsoft releases first public preview of SQL Server 2016.
Create a test machine in Windows 8 Client Hyper-V. Greg Shultz shows you how to setup and configure Windows 8's Client Hyper-V. In the article, Get the free 90-day evaluation of Windows 8 Enterprise, I showed you how to download and install the free 90-day evaluation copy of the final version of Windows 8 Enterprise so that you could begin experimenting with the new operating system. I recommended that you install Windows 8 Enterprise to a VHD and use it in a dual-boot configuration, as I showed you in the article titled Dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 using a VHD. After experimenting with Windows 8 in a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 for a while I decided that I wanted to expand my test bed a bit and rather than setting up another dual-boot system, I decided that I wanted to experiment with the operating system from within Windows 8's Client Hyper-V tool. This post is also available as a slideshow in a TechRepublic Photo Gallery. About Client Hyper-V Requirements Your system must have at least 4GB of memory.
Getting started. Tor Anonymity Software vs. the National Security Agency. Behind this week’s cover Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents. Just a fraction of the files have been made public, but they outline the National Security Agency’s massive information-collection system. They’ve thrown light onto the methods of an arm of the government used to working in the shadows and started an intense debate over national security and personal liberty. One of the earliest and most explosive revelations was the existence of Prism, a top-secret program giving the NSA direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, and other U.S.
Internet companies. Snowden himself remains something of a mystery even as the U.S. government attempts to obtain his return from Russia, where he’s in hiding, and very possibly jail him for the rest of his life. As an infrastructure analyst for the NSA, he came to understand at a high level how information moves around the Internet. Concept between FI-CA, FI-AR, and FI-AP | SCN. Hi Yoshitada, Firstly to clear your confusion, FI-CA documents are not posted to FI-GL. In FI-CA, all relevant financial postings and transactions with customers are recorded in the sub-ledger. After which, all these detailed financial transactions are then transferred to the general ledger (FI-GL) in the financial accounting system. The relevant financial data are summarized in the general ledger through a reconciliation keys.
When you are performing a non-statistical transaction in FI-CA(say, posting a misc dr\cr), the system by defaults records the transaction in a reconciliation key.When the daily transaction processing is completed, all non-statistical financial transactions through reconciliation keys are transferred to FI-GL. Hence only the GL account balance gets updated. The activities involved in creating and closing of reconciliation keys and the subsequent transfer from FI-CA to FI-GLnormally happens through the batch run in IS-U. Some useful t.codes- Hope it solves your query. OTRS vs Remedy Action Request System in Help Desk Software.