Advantages can be substantial. Many organizations that rely on T1/E1 leased lines for high-speed connectivity are disenchanted with paying expensive lease charges every month. As bandwidth requirements continue to grow, many enterprises are seeing their monthly costs rise as their leased …lines proliferate.

T3 lines can provide bigger network pipes, but they also have limitations on how high they can scale before additional circuits are required. While these high recurring costs are one major problem with leased lines, they’re not the only issue.

Join us Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at Entré Computer Solutions to learn more about this solution. This event is free, but registration is required.

Please email seminars@entrerock.com to register

Date and Time
May 25, 2011
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Location
Entré Computer Solutions
8900 North 2nd Street
Machesney Park, Illinois

Through hands-on labs, students will gain experience in:

• Installing and configuring a virtual server and connecting to the server with XenCenter
• Creating a mix of Windows and Linux virtual machines and managing virtual machine life-cycle operations
• Creating a XenServer resource pool and connecting to remote storage

The exercises in this course will allow students to explore advanced XenServer capabilities such as XenMotion and automatic virtual machine placement.

For more information, please contact Doug or Kim at 815-399-5664 or send an e-mail to training@entrerock.com

Thanks to everyone who came out to join Entré, HP LeftHand and Citrix at lunch yesterday on rethinking server virtualization. If you would like to express any additional thoughts, comments or questions regarding the event we encourage you to post them. Regardless if you attended or not, we encourage everyone to share their thoughts or experiences with server virtualization.

Additionally this month we are now able to provide offsite backup to meet security and data requirements. Your backups can be restored by Web, FTP as well as with Windows software.

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We would like to thank the everyone who came to have lunch with us at Forest Hills Country Club. Please feel free to share your thoughts, questions, and comments on the event and your experiences with Social Networking and how you or your company uses it as a proactive marketing tool. Using Social Networking as a tool to promote your company can provide you the resources to reach a wide target audience with often times little to no cost at all.

Also, the next Entré Luncheon is on Medical Records and Practice Management Solutions on 8/12/2009 here at Entré with HealthCo Information Systems. Email seminars@entrerock.com for registration and information.

BlackBerry Server Presentation

• SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
• SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

Yes, that’s right. There will be no 32 bit support in SharePoint 2010. Why? Microsoft firmly backs 64-bit due to its expandability and performance increases. If you are running SharePoint 2007, then you know what they mean. A lot of this requirement was based on real world experiences from MOSS 2007 customers. It should be noted that according to Microsoft, 64 bit is a best practice recommendation for MOSS 2007.

What can I do to get ready?

1. The major thing you can do is make sure your server hardware is 64-bit compatible. Be sure to check this when ordering new hardware as well.

2. Upgrade any users who are still using Internet Explorer 6. There will be much limited support for IE 6 users. MOSS 2010 will have improved support for Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x.

3. Run the system upgrade checker to see any potential issues.

4. Stay up to date on any new details. We expect MOSS 2010 to be released this year, but right now have limited details as to when. The official blog contains the most updated information.