Posts Tagged ‘servers’
4 Considerations for Cloud Based Email
Written by Jeff Orloff on June 6, 2011 – 4:54 pm -
Developments in cloud based computing have shown quite a bit of excitement and promise, especially when it comes to small to medium sized businesses. Those who evangelize the cloud will often cite the many benefits of moving to a cloud based email service. The litany of favorable reasons to examine moving email services off site that are oft quoted fall into line with the reasons used to move to any new technology:
- Ease of scalability
- Ease of software updates
- Email access anywhere
- Better disaster recovery
- Ease of implementation
- And of course, reduced costs
So when a vendor, or even someone in your own organization, throw these at management looking to save money and increase productivity then it seems like the question moves from why should we move to the cloud? to why has it taken us so long to move our email to the cloud?
Is it really that easy?
What do you call yours?
Written by Brett Callow on March 27, 2009 – 3:48 pm -
Some people call them after family members. Some people call them after animals. And the Lord of the Rings series of books and Greek mythology seem to be an eternally popular sources of inspirations. What am I talking about here? Kids names? No, server names, of course!
David Stennett, a freelance contractor specializing in program and project management who’s old enough to know better, gets his ideas from the sky at night and cartoons:
I usually name my servers using either 1. Planets (the bigger the server, the greater the name … big servers named Jupiter1, Jupiter2, etc … smaller servers or desktops … Mercury, etc.) or 2. Transformers (servers named after larger transformers like Devastator, Omega Supreme, Unicron; desktops named after normal Autobots or Decepticons).
According to one of the chaps over at Diskeeper Corporation – who, to spare his blushes, I shall allow to remain anonymous - they once went down the Greek mythology route (Athena, Atlas, Janus, etc.), but have since adopted a much less interesting approach:
We have since standardized our servers with a naming convention of 3 letter location > Server Function > Number of Server.
*yawn* How to suck the fun out of life!