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Unsolicited Commercial Email: What can be done to stop it?

Spam or unsolicited commercial email (UCE) involves sending unwanted email in bulk quantities to unwilling recipients. Often, the spam email contains commercial advertisements and/or computer viruses. While UCE has always been a problem since the advent
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Larisa R.
Jul 29 2010 07:01 AM
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NEW GEAR REVIEW: Dell PowerEdge R510 Server with 12-Bay Chassis

Dell's new server offering is the PowerEdge R510, a sleek and compact unit that fits a lot of muscle into a small space. Despite its size, the PowerEdge R510 is fast, furious and, perhaps most importantly, flexible. Dell designed it with the idea of
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Mike M.
Jul 22 2010 07:26 AM
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5 Essential Security & Compliance Quickies for Linux

Spend a little time working through PCI DSS and you quickly realize that much of the focus is on understanding and reducing risk. This often means efforting to keep sensitive info on a need-to-know. Here are just a few ways you can improve your Linux
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Chris G.
Jul 15 2010 08:21 AM
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INetU Managed Hosting is Most Reliable Hosting Company in June 2010

INetU is honored to announce that Netcraft named us the Most Reliable Hosting Company for June 2010. Not only did our network respond to each of their requests over the one-month period, but Netcraft says we are only the second site to do so this year –
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INetU
Jul 09 2010 07:00 AM
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Upcoming PCI Changes

There is much hype around what the changes will be incorporated into this years’ revision. Much has changed since that update, including increased virtualization and cloud implementations, so the hope is that these technologies will not only get
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Jason B.
Jul 08 2010 05:14 AM
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How to Get PCI Compliance to Comply With Your Budget

Back in the late 1990's when the Web was just starting to gain widespread adoption, there was a great deal of distrust in putting sensitive information online. Clearly we are in a different era of risk tolerance today with people voluntarily posting all
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Chris K.
Jun 30 2010 04:06 PM
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Compliance and Security – Is there a difference?

I think so. Many articles and blog posts have been written on compliance and security. Some argue that compliance and security are the same while others argue the opposite. Some people feel that compliance can weaken security. My take is...
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Chris G.
Jun 23 2010 03:24 PM
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Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Power Users and Developers

The Firefox web browser is capable of (for lack of a better word) extending its abilities through the use of various plugins, or (as they are known in the Firefox community) extensions. In this article, I’d like to introduce you to my top 5 most useful
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Patrick M.
Jun 16 2010 03:35 PM
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The Power of Cisco IPS

Cisco's IPS/IDS solution has come a long way over the last couple years. Recently, Cisco updated their software version to 7. With this came one exciting new feature: global correlation. This feature is available on the standalone IPS sensors, as well as
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Jason B.
Jun 10 2010 06:41 PM
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Limit Server Exposure with Time-Based Action Control and VPN’s

How many times have you requested a firewall access change for a temporary use, and have forgotten? Better yet, how many times would you like a firewall to be opened for a particular time frame, but thought it wasn’t an option, so it has been open ever
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Jason B.
Jun 02 2010 03:54 PM
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How Not to Administer Your Server

Simply having Admin access to your server isn’t always enough. Here are some tips to help you stay up and running:
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Steve V.
May 26 2010 05:27 PM
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If Your Windows Server Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway

We've all heard the age old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"/"tried and true". With new versions of most software being released at least every couple of years, keeping up-to-date can be a real chore - especially when that new version breaks
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Andrew H.
May 19 2010 04:10 PM
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Empower the Mobile Workforce with SQL Server

There are a lot of businesses that rely on retrieving data from mobile workforces. Freight companies are scanning packages at pickup sites and sales forces are using handheld devices and/or laptops that need to transmit information to and from a central
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Jason C.
May 12 2010 06:47 PM
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AnyConnect Licensing Debunked

The Cisco AnyConnect product line is Cisco’s industry leading SSL VPN solution. It is Cisco’s flagship VPN solution, and will eventually phase out the Cisco VPNClient, which is the IPSec version. Back in 2009, Cisco updated its AnyConnect
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Jason B.
May 05 2010 05:50 PM
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Data Security Fundamentals

We often talk about system or network security and best practices for those types of technologies. Obviously, they are important; otherwise we wouldn't talk about them. But, all in all, what are we protecting with those types of technology? That’s right,
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Jason B.
Apr 28 2010 03:42 PM
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Hybrid Configurations - Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too!

Unless you’re reading this blog from a time machine and call 1984 “home”, you’ve probably considered deploying virtualization or utilizing some cloud resources for your business already. Maybe you’re development team has already begun reaping the
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Rich H.
Apr 21 2010 05:52 PM
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How to Reduce Your SAN Costs

When you start looking to purchase Enterprise Storage, you realize quickly that large scale, high performance storage isn’t cheap. Most people experience sticker shock the first time they price out five or six terabytes of SAN storage. If a two terabyte
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Andy B.
Apr 14 2010 03:50 PM
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Smart SLA Design for Your SaaS

Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) assure potential customers that your Software as a Service company will live up to your client acquisition team’s promises; however, it is also important to make promises that you can keep, and avoid making promises that
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Chris K.
Apr 07 2010 06:27 PM
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What to Do When Your Website is Down: The Checklist

Imagine this scenario: you’re sitting at your desk, finishing your work before the end of a long day. Suddenly, your phone starts ringing. You answer, only to hear a frantic voice on the other end notifying you that your site is down. Insert panic
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Steve V.
Mar 31 2010 05:32 PM
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3 Network Segmentation Rules of Thumb

First, I'd like to get this out to everyone: Network segmentation is great, and a very worthwhile implementation. What’s bad are perceptions and lack of foresight in implementing this type of technology. It can go very wrong very fast and actually cause
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Jason B.
Mar 24 2010 03:03 PM
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Ten steps to keep your site online during a rush of traffic.

Trying to go viral? Planning on a lot of site traffic? Our techs have helped sites stay online during Super Bowl ad campaigns and opening weekend movie premiers. And along the way, they’ve learned what it takes to stay online during a massive flood of
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Jeff P.
Mar 17 2010 04:21 PM
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Solve your storage problems - delete data!

It might seem obvious, but those with less data have arguably simpler storage requirements. Perhaps not so obvious is how many different areas can be impacted as data grows. Backup storage, backup duration, restoration, inter server network connectivity,
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Chris G.
Mar 10 2010 07:04 PM
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5 Ways Not to Use Virtualization

With all of the talk about virtualization lately, many organizations are ready to pick up everything and virtualize it. After all, it’s the thing to do! Here are some things to keep in mind before virtualizing everything in sight: 1. Don’t virtualize
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Andrew H.
tags: uncategorized virtualization
Mar 03 2010 07:45 PM
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LAN Performance Hundreds of Miles Away

As companies are looking to cut costs, many ponder moving their infrastructure to a managed hosting environment rather than maintaining it themselves. Saving money is always an appealing option to any CEO, but the first questions always raised are, “How
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Jason B.
tags: uncategorized cisco lan waas
Feb 25 2010 11:11 PM
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Misconceptions of Scaling Write Operations in SQL Server

Many people hold a misconception that Peer-To-Peer replication and active-active clusters can provide write scalability. This article will provide a very brief overview of both technologies and some details as to why these technologies are not capable of
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Jason C.
tags: uncategorized clusters scaling sharding
Feb 17 2010 08:15 PM
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INetU Ranks in Top 3 Managed Hosting Providers

INetU Managed Hosting was ranked in the top 3 managed hosting services by hosting review service HostReview in their annual web hosting awards. Since 1996, INetU has been a prominent hosting provider focused on business web hosting for mission-critical
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INetU
tags: uncategorized awards managed hosting news
Feb 16 2010 06:56 PM
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SQL Server Replication Snapshot Alternative

There will be many times when you'll need to initialize or reinitialize a subscriber in a transactional replication configuration with a new snapshot. This is usually the case when creating new publications, creating a new snapshot because changes are
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Jason C.
tags: uncategorized backups replication snapshots
Feb 11 2010 10:47 PM
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INetU Partners with EdgeCast Networks to Power its New Content Delivery Services

EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), and INetU, a managed hosting provider, today announced the availability of global content delivery services to all INetU customers. This agreement opens
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INetU
tags: uncategorized cdn managed hosting news
Feb 09 2010 07:40 PM
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What Your Web Host is Not Telling You about 100% Uptime

In a perfect world your website would be available all day, every day, completely without fail. In reality, downtime happens. Hosting providers like to guarantee uptime, but what does that really mean? Here are three things your hosting provider isn’t
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Jeff P.
tags: uncategorized application availability downtime high availability
Feb 03 2010 05:03 PM
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Virtualization Lies

Virtualization offers advantages that take many forms, but with it can come challenges because virtualization lies. The basic premise of virtualization is that the operating system running on a virtual machine is presented with hardware that doesn't
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Andrew H.
tags: uncategorized hyper-v monitoring virtual machines
Jan 27 2010 09:12 PM
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5 Reasons to Reevaluate RAID-5

RAID-5 was long hailed as the enterprise-level storage solution and a fit for nearly every application. The truth is, RAID-5 was designed back in the 80’s to save cost without completely sacrificing redundancy. Back then the cost per byte for storage on
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Rich H.
tags: uncategorized array controller database
Jan 20 2010 08:59 PM
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Stop Using Insecure Passwords Now!

Here are some disturbing statistics: A recent Hotmail security breach revealed that an overwhelming number of users are using predictable, insecure passwords: 61% of passwords were either only lowercase letters or all digits (examples: iloveyou or
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Jeff P.
tags: uncategorized hacking password policy security
Jan 13 2010 04:57 PM
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The Electronic Experience – Are Artifacts a Thing of the Past?

You can’t open a browser or read a technology magazine without seeing something about the cloud. What is the cloud and what is the big hubbub? I am not able to pinpoint a definition of the cloud, but I think the impact of the cloud is getting clearer.
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Scott W.
tags: uncategorized cloud virtualization
Jan 06 2010 04:55 PM
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3 Great Apps for your Security Toolkit

Any admin worth his/her salt has a common set of tools and applications they use on a regular basis for managing whatever environment for which they are responsible. Managing the security of the environment is no exception. While this meager blog post
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Patrick M.
tags: uncategorized metaspolit nessus nmap
Dec 30 2009 04:40 PM
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How Windows System Resource Manager Can Help You Get the Most Out of Your System

Have you ever experienced resource contention on your server? If you have, a Windows feature called Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) might help minimize the impact of those situations. WSRM allows you to control CPU and memory resource allocation
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Andrew H.
tags: uncategorized iis memory windows
Dec 23 2009 04:43 PM
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Combating SQL Injection Attacks

What is URLScan? URLScan is a free tool provided by Microsoft that restricts certain kinds of HTTP requests that IIS will process. Though there are many different uses of URLScan, today I will only be covering SQL Injection blocking. SQL Injections occur
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Jason C.
tags: uncategorized hacking security sql injection
Dec 16 2009 07:53 PM
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Who Are Your Internet Neighbors?

Do you know who your internet neighbors are? Would you buy a lot, build a house, and move your family in if the next-door neighbor was a notorious drug kingpin? Of course not! It's important to consider that "where" your business "lives" online is just
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Rich H.
tags: uncategorized ddos hacking spam
Dec 09 2009 07:53 PM
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Self-Service Portals Let Your Users Manage Virtual Machines

SCVMM 2008 (or "System Center Virtual Machine Manager") is Microsoft's answer to a "unified, multi-vendor management solution for the virtual datacenter." SCVMM R2 was released recently, and along with it came the ability to set up a Self-Service Portal.
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Patrick M.
tags: uncategorized microsoft scvmm 2008 virtualization
Dec 02 2009 04:32 PM
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Open Source Software - A Free Puppy?

Two weeks ago while attending LISA (the Large Installation System Administration conference), I heard many times that open source software is the way to go; after all, "you can't beat free". During one of the classes, someone from a university IT
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Andy B.
tags: uncategorized linux lisa open source
Nov 25 2009 04:37 PM
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How INetU Can Help You Achieve PCI Compliance Bliss

The PCI Council introduced the PCI version 1.2.1 specification earlier this year, and there has been a lot of clarification done so the specification makes more sense; however,, there is still a lot of help needed in deciphering exact needs and next
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Jason B.
tags: uncategorized managed hosting pci security
Nov 18 2009 04:33 PM