Tag: Barracuda Backup Server

Success Story: Automating Critical Network Operations Across 300 Locations for World’s Leading News Agency

Imagine the IT division of a large news agency that provides real-time news to its subscribers – including print and electronic media in over 100 countries – on a 24×7 basis.

Network Engineer uses NCM to ensure a Consistent and Compliant IT Environment

Learn More: http://www.solarwinds.com/network-configuration-manager.aspx See how SolarWinds customer Phil Webb uses NCM to consistently configure devices to ensure a compliant and secure network….

Source IP Addresses, STunnel, Haproxy and Server Logs

When using proxies such as STunnel and HAProxy it’s easy to loose track of the client source IP address. This occurs for example when HAProxy is used in it’s default configuration to load balance a number of back-end web servers. By default, the source IP address of the packet reaching the web servers is the IP address of the load balancer and not the IP address of the client

2014 04 07 Stop Accidental Data Loss -LATAM

http://www.youtube.com/v/eGe9vGoPe7k?version=3&f=user_uploads&app=youtube_gdata You Can Learn More About the WatchGuards’ Product Line By Going to www.FirewallShop.com/WatchGuard. The original article/video can be found at 2014 04 07 Stop Accidental Data Loss -LATAM

5 Reasons Your Help Desk Should Get in the SaaS Lane

Forrester recently announced the results of their third annual ITSM survey at  Fusion 2013 , a conference for IT Service Management professionals.  Summing up the experience there in a  recent blog post  , Forrester revealed that survey results showed that ITSM has largely maintained status quo through 2013 stating ‘no news…is news’. Not everything was status quo though! Forrester said that the MOST significant change highlighted in the survey was in regards to SaaS adoption by service desk teams. In their own words “2013 is the breakout year for SaaS. ” When asked how they plan to purchase management and automation software over the next two years, for the first time ”Delivered via SaaS” rather than “Classic perpetual license” was the most popular choice.  “As most of you know, SaaS has been on a tear for a couple of years now – it’s neat to finally see that reflected in the data.” To us , this is hardly a surprise. Ever since we launched  ServiceDesk Plus On-Demand , the fully SaaS version of ServiceDesk Plus in late 2010, we have seen an encouraging adoption rate that only seems to grow each day. As the report suggests, we saw many of our own customers move from their installed service desks to ServiceDesk Plus On-Demand in 2013. The On-Demand version of ServiceDesk Plus itself is the byproduct of ManageEngine’s extensive experience in the ITSM market and  Zoho’s  ( ManageEngine’s parent company).

Keep your Samsung SAFE devices safer!

With Android devices becoming ubiquitous at the work place, companies have started looking at the various possibilities of managing and securing these devices. For example, Samsung mobiles and tablets are increasingly used by employees to access work-related data. However, this comes with the built-in risk of leaking/losing sensitive information.

Open Source Windows service for reporting server load back to HAProxy (load balancer feedback agent).

In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster and you get pretty consistent and even load balancing. However with some applications such as RDS ( Microsoft Terminal Servers ), you can get very high load from just a  few users doing heavy work. The solution to this is to use some kind of server load feedback agent

Astaro Security Gateway V8 is End-of-Life December 31st, 2014

This is your official reminder that Version 8 of Astaro Security Gateway will be end-of-life on December 31st 2014.  If you are not running any Astaro Security Gateway Version 8 installations, you unaffected by this announcement and can disregard it. If you still maintain an active ASG V8, it is important that you read on for what this end-of-life means for you