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Virtual Machines in a Small Business Environment
Posted by admin in Environment on September 28, 2011
Virtual machines (VM) have been gaining more and more traction in the enterprise and small-business worlds, with one question often being asked:
“How can virtual machines help my small business?”
It is an open-ended question, and one not easily answered. The specific application of virtual machines often depends on the needs of each particular business. In most cases, however, virtual machines are extraordinarily useful for making sure that the maximum amount of resources are being used in the most effective fashion. By segmenting one server into multiple VMs, an otherwise underutilized server can be parceled out into two or more servers specialized into certain applications, making maintenance and troubleshooting easier as well as using all of the resources of a server that might otherwise stay mostly dormant.
Building A Virtual Infrastructure
For example’s sake, let’s take a typical entry-level server for a small business:
Processor: Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz
RAM: 4GB
HD: 320GB single SATA
Two Ethernet NICs
Let’s also assume our sample small business has one of these server in-house, and they plan to use it to host their Exchange email, Active Directory, and file sharing. They are access Internet via a business cable line, and they have a small LAN serving a ten-person office. In a normal configuration, the server would host an instance of Windows Server 2008 with Exchange and Active Directory. This is a perfectly acceptable configuration, and most IT departments would stop there with their mission accomplished. Read the rest of this entry »
A New Business Environment With Video Chat and the Internet!
Posted by admin in Environment on September 28, 2011
The 90′s was a time when the gaming and animation industry redefined their very nature for all of history to come. It was also the legendary time when the internet really became a thing to the general public, despite it having been around for quite a bit of time before then.
The 90′s were also a time when some of the most historic leaps in home technology took place. These technologies have and will continue to change the way professional life works. For example, live video chat over the internet was a big changing factor, and it’s one of a few that will continue to change how business works for a long time to come.
When webcam chat first became implemented in software in the mid-90s, it just didn’t work that well. First of all, cam chat was limited to really primitive cameras and rendering software. Chat rooms were the most common technology for communications online then, due to chat rooms not needing nearly the bandwidth compared to what video chat rooms need. With the canned audio sound and choppy, often 3 frames per second video of the cam chat software, it was more of a novelty outside corporate infrastructures.
When the bandwidth boom of 1998 hit, though, and people began to widely use DSL, WiFi and cable internet technologies, the bandwidth restriction ceased to be a major concern. As the cameras got cheaper and better, this also added to more practical use of the technology. Obviously, though, it was still more of a novelty for online chatting than anything. Read the rest of this entry »