Google does good! - Speak to Tweet Service Launched for Egypt

Like many people GOOGLE DEVELOPMENT has been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt.

No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.

Best Practice - Build out Exchange 2010 CAS Arrays.

(BASIC) Architecture Changes:

With Exchange Server 2010 all protocols should go through the Client Access Server and cannot connect to Mailbox servers to MAPI clients directly. This is done by using new Client Access Server(CAS) Windows Server service known as the RPC Client Access service.

(BASIC) Installation:

(ADVANCED) Site-to-Site-Proxying:

How do you deal with a two (2) AD site scenario (i.e cross data center) and you have to redirect Outlook Web App clients between these sites transparently. -> Exchange 2010 SP1 Proxyng

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GAL Segmentation, Exchange 2010 Address policies

The Exchange Customer Experience Team has heard the feedback our customers have provided to us and are now working to incorporate a set of features that will provide a Global Address Segmentation capability directly into Service Pack 2, which will be available to customers in the second half of 2011. We plan on posting more about Service Pack 2 in the next couple of weeks.

This decision was taken in order to simplify the deployment and configuration of the feature for all customers by providing a consistent and controlled experience through the standard Exchange management interface.

As a result of the decision to build the functionality into the product, we have also decided that we will not release an updated version of the Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation Whitepaper that was published for Exchange Server 2007


LYNC REACH CLIENT - http://blogs.technet.com/b/toml/archive/2011/02/04/how-to-force-the-use-of-the-lync-reach-client-just-append-this-to-the-url-sl-1.aspx

EMC's new VNX/ VNXe 101 for apps like MS Exchange

FULL STORY:
http://www.youtube.com/user/siliconangle


NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ News Summary:

• The EMC® VNX™ family—designed for virtual data centers—converges industry leading EMC CLARiiON® storage area network (SAN) and EMC Celerra® network attached storage (NAS) systems into a single, unified family of solutions. The VNX family includes the VNXe™ (entry) series with breakthrough simplicity for small and medium businesses, and the VNX series, delivering leadership performance, efficiency, and simplicity for demanding virtual application environments.
• The VNXe series is the world's most simple, efficient and affordable unified storage system, providing application-optimized management and single-click help and support. The VNXe series, designed for the IT Manager that does not specialize in storage, offers an entry price of under $10,000 (USD).
• The highly scalable VNX series delivers 3-times simpler management, 3-times better efficiency, and 3-times more performance and than current EMC midrange storage systems. With the EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) Suite, including FAST VP (Virtual Pools) and FAST Cache, the VNX series offers superior performance, capacity optimization, and comprehensive storage management functionality, while exploiting the benefits of Solid State Drives (SSD). The systems dramatically simplify the deployment and management of virtualized applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange Server, VMware View virtual desktops, and Oracle databases.

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Storage Designed for the Microsoft Administrator

Private Cloud 101 - Dedicated Hosting vs Private Cloud Hosting

: Private Cloud 101 Video Training Series for Business Stake Holders :


EP 1 Benefits of Private Clouds






EP 2 Dedicated Hosting vs Private Cloud Hosting







Courtesy Rackspace



A Counterpoint from Larry....


Why does Larry Ellison hate cloud computing?

Recoverpoint with REE for Exchange 2010 Demonstration

A EMC principal demo that illustrates the Replication Enabler for Exchange (REE) with the RecoverPoint Plugin in a 2-node mailbox role configuration. It shows how the cmdlets are used within REE to switch replication flow and failover to the DR site.

Want More - http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=EMC+Recover+Point+Exchange+2010

VMware Site Recovery Manager - part Two

This video walks through the configuration and testing of VMware's Site Recovery Manager. SRM allows you to quickly and easily create, test, and execute your virtualization DR strategy. The process is completely automated and allows for testing of the DR plan with no impact to production.

This video is split into two segments. This is part 2.


Want More : http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/