Here’s a cool program that can be pretty helpful: htop (http://htop.sourceforge.net/). Monitoring the vital stats on a Linux server can be difficult; you’ve got a ton of utilities like top, free, /proc, vmstat, sar, along with logs to sort through. Imagine if on Linux you could watch each process, view its threads and sub processes, [...]
Not having to think about backups is awesome and what would be even more awesome is not having to design a solid backup plan for your environment. But that’s not the name of the game. In complex IT environments it’s difficult to come up with a backup solution, however it’s necessary if you want to be able to sleep peacefully at night. Here's some tips on how to design a solid backup plan:
If your folks were like mine, they hammered that adage at you continually on interacting with others – be yourself. In the realm of e-commerce and electronic contact, nothing could be closer to the truth. Being yourself and claiming you are you isn’t always easy. Especially in the wonderful and relatively deregulated landscape that is the internet and its many protocols. One place in particul
Three months after the launch of the INetU Gated Community Cloud, we are successfully up and running in Europe! The new Gated Community Cloud node in Europe is perfect for clients who need to have a configuration closer in proximity to them. It offers the same benefits as our Gated Community Cloud in Allentown, but [...]
This week, INetU employees participated in an overwhelmingly successful Thanksgiving Basket Food Drive! Each department created a decorative basket packed with tasty goodies like canned vegetables, mashed potatoes, ingredients to make a pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and any other surprises they wished. INetU also contributed a turkey voucher for each basket so recipients will [...]
So you have DFSR setup and you run into issues with files not being copied, missing files or even performance issues. Here are some troubleshooting tips to investigate and possibly correct common DFSR issues.
First a quick introduction on DFSR. DFSR (Distributed File System Replication) formerly DFS, is a replication service that keeps folders/files synchronized across multiple servers. This a
We know that it’s important to give back to the community in which we live and work, and that’s why we’ve continued involving ourselves in charitable organizations and activities! This October, INetU made a donation to the Susan G Komen foundation to support Breast Cancer Awareness. More than half of our employees participated in October [...]
This morning, I had the pleasure of sitting in on Michael Collier’s presentation, “Migrating Enterprise Applications to the Cloud”, at Cloud Expo West.
The National Architect for Neudesic, Michael had some interesting guidance on how to decide which application to move to the cloud and how to prioritize their migration.
