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Luke – Just another day in paradise

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Just another day in paradise. Rant about cloud computing and other Microsoft stuff. Traditional networking is dead. There has been a lot of activity over the last 18 months regarding SDN and similar technologies disrupting the traditional network architecture stack. Will have built in a network controller role which can be installed plus support for VXLAN and NVGRE which is leveraging the same technology stack Microsoft uses in their Azure cloud services. Vendors such as Cisco are playing catch up with A...

Latency based DNS load balancing with Amazon Web Services – Just another day in paradise

https://lukenotley.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/latency-based-dns-load-balancing-with-amazon-web-services

Just another day in paradise. Rant about cloud computing and other Microsoft stuff. Latency based DNS load balancing with Amazon Web Services. AWS just keeps on innovating. They have recently just announced the ability to load balance DNS queries based on the users latency to an EC2 region…say wha? Http:/ docs.amazonwebservices.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/CreatingLatencyRRSets.html. C: Users Luke nslookup http:/ www.cloudcomputingperth.com. Server: dns1.mydomain.local. Server: 111.118.175&#...Addre...

Snapshots are bad, mmmkay – Just another day in paradise

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Just another day in paradise. Rant about cloud computing and other Microsoft stuff. Snapshots are bad, mmmkay. You might think that taking a snapshot of a virtual machine before you make any changes to it is a life saver as an IT pro, but I can assure you they are not. Yeah but it snapshots the VM’s memory as well you say? So smarty pants, what should I do? Don’t get me wrong, snapshots are great but shut the VM down and then take a snapshot. This way you have a consistent state on the VM so yo...You are...

Size Matters – Not Brand – Just another day in paradise

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Just another day in paradise. Rant about cloud computing and other Microsoft stuff. Size Matters – Not Brand. This post should generate some pretty healthy debate within your own mind…Cloud, Compute and Brand. So what is really important? Cost and Compute Unit Measurement. How do you calculate such a thing? In simple terms, we could look at it with this scenario. In this example we’ll use the following server specs;. Dual Processors with 10 cores each running at 3.0Ghz (total of 60Ghz of processing).

Protecting your perimeter – the quick wins – Just another day in paradise

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Just another day in paradise. Rant about cloud computing and other Microsoft stuff. Protecting your perimeter – the quick wins. There are some really easy quick wins you can perform to stop a lot of unwanted internet traffic hitting your perimeter. If your perimeter is only accessed by real users, you are probably pretty safe drop any packets from the sources below. Tor network exit IP’s. Which even includes a list you can download. I say possibly because some legitimate businesses run all their infrastr...