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IT Unwrapped Episode 4 for Saturday, May 28, 2011

This week, we’re talking about

• SEO Poisoning,
• cool tablets in the business place,
• How to handle those personal devices,
• and server virtualization

News

• Apple Defender
  • Uses SEO Poisoning to get high search results
  • Websense analysis revealed that 95 percent of all user-generated content is spam, malware, or both.
  • As far back as 2007, Google has acknowledged Google Ads that contained maleware links – have been removing them as they are detected

• http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/
  • Very awesome concept by Asus for production tablets/notebooks
  • iPad has bluetooth keyboard that helps with production as well
  • Tablets are tough to be productive on without a keyboard/mouse/usb
  • Flash 10.2 – Honeycomb

• Microsoft Is Said to Plan Preview of Windows Tablet Software
  • http://www.winrumors.com/bloomberg-confirms-next-weeks-windows-8-tablet-demo/
  • http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-arm-based-tablets-may-launch-before-full-desktop-version/
  • “source based” speculation – it would be nice though
    • related – http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/27/diffus-solar-handbag-charges-your-cell-during-the-day-may-actua/
      • Not in production yet
      • what other things could have small solar powered panels to charge mobile devices
        • problem with tablets at work is battery life (assuming it’s an iPad or similar device where battery isn’t accessable.
        • how many people are really using devices where the sun is available to charge the device

does any light work?  Note: solar powered logitech keyboard (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/k750-keyboard?WT.ac=ps|7712|Logitech_Wireless_Solar_Keyboard_K750)

Forum Post of the week

• IT’s future: Bring your own PC-tablet-phone to work
  • Creating standards
    • Unsupported ⇔ Experimental ⇔ Supported
    • Data security
    • Company owned -vs- employee owned
  • IanFaganOKS: “Whats that… you want us to allow all of our corporate secrets and customer info on to our employees iphones? Sure why not… whats the worst that could happen!”
  • BrandonA: “It’s IT HELL!!! This means war!”my

Community

• http://it.toolbox.com/ – Another “Spiceworks” type of community
  • It’s just a straight up community site.  No inventory tool or scanning.  It’s a very clean simple interface.
  • Groups
    • Cloud computing
    • data center
    • Dev
    • Enterprise applications
    • Information Management
    • Enterprise Architecture
    • IT management & strategy
    • Networking and Infrastructure
    • OS
    • Security
    • Storage
  • Questions from members answered by members (similar to Spiceworks)
  • Vote up and down topics
  • Contests section (although the most recent was in 2009)
  • Sign up for “white-papers”, newsletters, job postings. (documents from companies about trends and technologies IT related) to be sent to your inbox.
  • Most active members within 30 days list area (it’s just that)
    • Achievement awards
    • number of posts
  • Very few active discussions between members… yet it’s a very good source for knowledge.

Discussion Topic

• Server Virtualization
  • Type 1 -vs- Type 2 Hyper-visors
  • Differences between Microsoft and VMWare solutions
  • Why virtualize your servers?

• Virtual desktop vs RDP
  • What are some advantages of going RDP
  • Some advantages of going virtual desktop
  • Server farm for either… how would you set up the RDP and Virtual enviroment
    • how many servers?
    • which OS?
    • Remote apps either way?

• Resources on virtualizations
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyID=5567B22A-8C47-4840-A88D-23146FD93151&ocid=otc-n-de-loc-virtualization-Spiceworks
    • In depth graphic look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization setup

• http://www.vmguru.nl – Great resource based in Netherlandsitunwrapped

• Best practices advice
• Front page has many articles all related to the virtual environment including storage servers for virtual desktops and servers, Operating system changes in MS, VMware, Citrix.
  • Opinion articles on technology all pertaining to virtual enviroment.
• Excellent resource for any IT person that is wanting to learn about virtualizing or already works in a vitalized environment and wants to stay on top of the rapid changes that happen within it.
• Resources for learning courses
• Many “how-to” videos

Tech Tip of the Week

• Paste in Google Docs without formatting <ctrl><shif><V> (only works in Chrome)