Seriously, the Microsoft licensing is what you are worried about? In this scenario, I'd have a shotgun in my office waiting for Big Blue or Computer Associates to come busting through. This is a mainframe dude, where "insert shaft/no lube" licensing models are standard procedure.
So lets take a commodity OS and run it on the most expensive processor-speed licensed hardware we can find only to get the overall performance of a basic Dell PC. Ooh, and lets throw in some low-density high-cost FICON based storage expense just for fun. Ya, that's a great idea.
Anyone who buys this model is an absolute fool and just fell off the IT turnip truck.
You discount the fact that really big implementations nearly require VMware to work by simple virtue of the maturity of the product. By really big, I mean 1000 to 3000 guest servers and 10's of thousands of desktops. You think enterprise managers are going to go with Xen or Virtual box in these scenarios? Not a freaking chance. The marginal cost of the software is a pittance compared to the losses incurred when the project fails or even worse, when it sputters for a long time and then dies.
Here are some numbers.
VMware enterprise licensing and support= 2 mil. Server hardware, infrastructure and storage= 4 mil Professional services = 2 mil. Overall savings to organization in in heating cooling, data center, backups, personnel and equipment refresh over 5 years= 10 mil.
Savings doing it with some other software= 500 grand (no one cares). Failed project = -16 mil.
Comparing VMware to Starbucks as a luxury boutique product is nonsense. It is the only one that can and has actually delivered an enterprise capability.
Also note as MS's embrace extend extinguish approach has brought us all sorts of 3rd party apps that plug into exchange e.g. voicemail to email for VOIP stacks like Cisco CCM, I can only foresee lots of pain
You forgot to mention the only one of those that really matter, Blackberry Enterprise Server. BES is the only one that can actually dictate to Microsoft, as BES can actually affect the market penetration of Exchange.
The interface on 3000 series VPN concentrators was written by a company called Altiga. Cisco bought the interface and the company lock stock and barrel. It was also a welcome change to their previous VPN concentrator attempts in IOS, called the 7100 line.
I'm just saying its a bad example, as Cisco had little to do with that interface.
This is an interesting summation, thanks. However, didn't your statement culminate by saying the conviction was affirmed? I prefer that the police and prosecution have to work very hard to get a conviction. I also prefer to let some of the guilty off in order to keep the innocent from going to jail. Seems that Blackstone's formulation is going from about 10:1 to 2:1. I'm starting to get afraid for my chances...
The fact that there are emails from her to alaska.gov is somewhat of a technical moot point. Anything she sends will be going right back to the system that she is trying to avoid, and will be discoverable on that end. Modern compliance solutions will find any email with any interesting words in a heartbeat.
I cannot stand Palin, but mixing up some occasional email business/pleasure is not the reason...
Could be an IBM 3174 like device too, running SNA. Fact is, the article and and court filings aren't clarifying any of this and leave the door open for mass amounts of conjecture and sensationalizing, both in the media and on Slashdot. Which, of course, is exactly what everyone is doing...
Change management is the responsibility of IT management, and ultimately the change manager, the CIO. It is a process defined for managing the risk of changes to the overall IT environment. This would include all installs, moves, adds and changes and hence why this guy was obviously in a poorly run IT shop. And apparently, so are you.
100% true. NT 3.5 and 3.51 had the video outside the kernel. NT 4.0 moved it to kernel level. This was a big to do at the time, with everyone claiming that NT 4 was going to become unstable that way. Ironically, XP probably wouldn't have been used for projecting graphic images on a ceiling if that change had not been made 2 generations back. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
You obviously understand these systems well. However, in order to gain access to them one would have to be in possession of a city computer or device. Now everyone in the world (literally) has access to them, an order of magnitude larger group to have to worry about.
Your comment is true, and so few IT organizations actually understand what you have said. However, these are "phase one" passwords. These particular passwords are the ones that allow a system to communicate with the network to even begin the process of authenticating a user. Any good admin must have these, as it is the admin that creates them and they cannot be changed after the fact. If you change one, you will have to go through and rebuild the certificate on the other device that is requesting access.
Interestingly, the DA is exposing the network even more than people know. Since this is essentially a defense in depth strategy, a lot of times the secondary password measures put in place (ie, authenticating the users) are weaker and more hackable. As admins know the first phase one measure is in place, the second one usually isn't as strong or monitored as well. After all, it isn't usually subject to brute force attacks.
Now San Fransisco's weakest and most sensitive set of passwords are subject to brute force attacks in a free-for-all on the internet. Since there are so many passwords published, quite possibly the attacks could be from multiple vectors to multiple edge devices. Seems the DA is either wildly incompetent (by virtue of not getting high end consulting advice on this subject) or has some legal reason to ensure the network is hacked. Either way, yikes.
Update all clients to IPv6 capable systems (i.e., junk Windows)
Vista runs IPV6 by default and everyone was hoping that this would help to drive adoption. IPV6 can be installed in a few clicks on an XP machine. You harboring much of an agenda there, boss?
..venue owners looking for something to bring people into their theaters...
Uh, why would anyone go to a theater, as they have this work freely available all over the internet, on disk, everywhere. That is, unless it is only being shown in theaters, which is exactly the way it is now.
And yet they still have an unencrypted login on their home page. Submitting to an encrypted URL from an unencrypted URL is practically a phish in itself. Most banks do this, and I cringe every time I see it. It begs for a phish attacks, does a disservice to customers, and promotes bad computing habits. But hey, it doesn't really cost the bank anything if your username and password gets whacked.
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The reason 2008 was run here is because of the 4 physical processors. There is no Microsoft desktop OS that will that supports more than 2.
Seriously, the Microsoft licensing is what you are worried about? In this scenario, I'd have a shotgun in my office waiting for Big Blue or Computer Associates to come busting through. This is a mainframe dude, where "insert shaft/no lube" licensing models are standard procedure.
You are so right.
So lets take a commodity OS and run it on the most expensive processor-speed licensed hardware we can find only to get the overall performance of a basic Dell PC. Ooh, and lets throw in some low-density high-cost FICON based storage expense just for fun. Ya, that's a great idea.
Anyone who buys this model is an absolute fool and just fell off the IT turnip truck.
(spend 13 years on death row, etc)
There, fixed that...
You discount the fact that really big implementations nearly require VMware to work by simple virtue of the maturity of the product. By really big, I mean 1000 to 3000 guest servers and 10's of thousands of desktops. You think enterprise managers are going to go with Xen or Virtual box in these scenarios? Not a freaking chance. The marginal cost of the software is a pittance compared to the losses incurred when the project fails or even worse, when it sputters for a long time and then dies.
Here are some numbers.
VMware enterprise licensing and support= 2 mil.
Server hardware, infrastructure and storage= 4 mil
Professional services = 2 mil.
Overall savings to organization in in heating cooling, data center, backups, personnel and equipment refresh over 5 years= 10 mil.
Savings doing it with some other software= 500 grand (no one cares).
Failed project = -16 mil.
Comparing VMware to Starbucks as a luxury boutique product is nonsense. It is the only one that can and has actually delivered an enterprise capability.
Also note as MS's embrace extend extinguish approach has brought us all sorts of 3rd party apps that plug into exchange e.g. voicemail to email for VOIP stacks like Cisco CCM, I can only foresee lots of pain
You forgot to mention the only one of those that really matter, Blackberry Enterprise Server. BES is the only one that can actually dictate to Microsoft, as BES can actually affect the market penetration of Exchange.
The interface on 3000 series VPN concentrators was written by a company called Altiga. Cisco bought the interface and the company lock stock and barrel. It was also a welcome change to their previous VPN concentrator attempts in IOS, called the 7100 line.
I'm just saying its a bad example, as Cisco had little to do with that interface.
If its on your face I think technically that means it has been spooged....
This is an interesting summation, thanks. However, didn't your statement culminate by saying the conviction was affirmed? I prefer that the police and prosecution have to work very hard to get a conviction. I also prefer to let some of the guilty off in order to keep the innocent from going to jail. Seems that Blackstone's formulation is going from about 10:1 to 2:1. I'm starting to get afraid for my chances...
Tell you what, I'll let you short my real ones tomorrow after my having shorting them today. I could use the extra cabbage.
That's the thing about the stock market, by the time you think you know something, it's already too late...
After Hours: 79.61 -5.72 (-6.70%)
It can "look and feel" better....
Taking in too little money has never stopped the government from spending. I can't see how it would stop them now...
The fact that there are emails from her to alaska.gov is somewhat of a technical moot point. Anything she sends will be going right back to the system that she is trying to avoid, and will be discoverable on that end. Modern compliance solutions will find any email with any interesting words in a heartbeat.
I cannot stand Palin, but mixing up some occasional email business/pleasure is not the reason...
Could be an IBM 3174 like device too, running SNA. Fact is, the article and and court filings aren't clarifying any of this and leave the door open for mass amounts of conjecture and sensationalizing, both in the media and on Slashdot. Which, of course, is exactly what everyone is doing...
Change management is the responsibility of IT management, and ultimately the change manager, the CIO. It is a process defined for managing the risk of changes to the overall IT environment. This would include all installs, moves, adds and changes and hence why this guy was obviously in a poorly run IT shop. And apparently, so are you.
100% true. NT 3.5 and 3.51 had the video outside the kernel. NT 4.0 moved it to kernel level. This was a big to do at the time, with everyone claiming that NT 4 was going to become unstable that way. Ironically, XP probably wouldn't have been used for projecting graphic images on a ceiling if that change had not been made 2 generations back. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
"it's pretty easy to get access to them..."
You obviously understand these systems well. However, in order to gain access to them one would have to be in possession of a city computer or device. Now everyone in the world (literally) has access to them, an order of magnitude larger group to have to worry about.
Your comment is true, and so few IT organizations actually understand what you have said. However, these are "phase one" passwords. These particular passwords are the ones that allow a system to communicate with the network to even begin the process of authenticating a user. Any good admin must have these, as it is the admin that creates them and they cannot be changed after the fact. If you change one, you will have to go through and rebuild the certificate on the other device that is requesting access.
Interestingly, the DA is exposing the network even more than people know. Since this is essentially a defense in depth strategy, a lot of times the secondary password measures put in place (ie, authenticating the users) are weaker and more hackable. As admins know the first phase one measure is in place, the second one usually isn't as strong or monitored as well. After all, it isn't usually subject to brute force attacks.
Now San Fransisco's weakest and most sensitive set of passwords are subject to brute force attacks in a free-for-all on the internet. Since there are so many passwords published, quite possibly the attacks could be from multiple vectors to multiple edge devices. Seems the DA is either wildly incompetent (by virtue of not getting high end consulting advice on this subject) or has some legal reason to ensure the network is hacked. Either way, yikes.
Apparently not, as that was a civil issue, this one is criminal.
Update all clients to IPv6 capable systems (i.e., junk Windows)
Vista runs IPV6 by default and everyone was hoping that this would help to drive adoption. IPV6 can be installed in a few clicks on an XP machine. You harboring much of an agenda there, boss?
..venue owners looking for something to bring people into their theaters...
Uh, why would anyone go to a theater, as they have this work freely available all over the internet, on disk, everywhere. That is, unless it is only being shown in theaters, which is exactly the way it is now.
There are ads on the internet?
And yet they still have an unencrypted login on their home page. Submitting to an encrypted URL from an unencrypted URL is practically a phish in itself. Most banks do this, and I cringe every time I see it. It begs for a phish attacks, does a disservice to customers, and promotes bad computing habits. But hey, it doesn't really cost the bank anything if your username and password gets whacked.
Simulate the oil futures market and figure out with precision the effect the "Enron loophole" has had on the price of oil. Publish results.
Uh, cause all those hydrogen and plug in hybrids still need energy. Nuclear energy.