Choosing a Management OS for Hyper-V: Hyper-V Server Part 2

Choosing a Management OS for Hyper-V: Windows Server by Eric Siron In the sister article to this piece, we talked about choosing Hyper-V Server over Windows Server as the management operating system. In this one, we’re going to go down the other road and make the case for Windows Server instead. A Clear Definition of Hyper-V […]

From the Test Laboratory: Greatly Increased Archiving Performance with MailStore Server 9

MailStore Server performs a check on every email in the mailbox to see whether it is already in the archive when archiving from mailboxes. This is how it prevents duplicates from occurring in the archive. The time required for this process varies and depends on the number of mailboxes to be archived, the volume of […]

Choosing a Management OS for Hyper-V: Hyper-V Server

Choosing a Management OS for Hyper-V: Hyper-V Server by Eric Siron For the server edition of Hyper-V, you have a choice in management operating systems. You can use the free, no-GUI Hyper-V Server or you can use the full-fledged Windows Server. This will be the first of two articles in which I will argue both sides […]

Attack of the Qbot: 6 years, 800,000 online banking transactions sniffed

Attack of the Qbot: 6 years, 800,000 online banking transactions sniffed In Alerts & Outbreaks by steve on October 9, 2014 | English What’s been around for 6 whole years, has infected roughly 500,000 Windows-based PCs, and has intercepted information from over 800,000 online banking transactions, including account credentials? Zeus? Guess again.iBanking? Nope. Dyre? No, […]

New Case Study: MailStore Server Implemented at the Beltz Group

New Case Study: MailStore Server Implemented at the Beltz Group Ever since its founding in 1841 in Langensalza, Thuringia, the Beltz Group has remained an independent family-run business that still specialises in publishing. The publishing group releases academic books and magazines for psychology and education (‘Psychologie Heute’), as well as children’s books, including the famous […]

Trouble Ahead: BadUSB exploit code has been made public

Remember BadUSB? The proof of concept exploit from about 2 months ago which demonstrated that USB firmware could be reprogrammed to act as malware? Well, now the code that makes this possible has been released in the wild. Researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson have published code that can make USB firmware act as a […]

Altaro PowerShell Hyper-V Cookbook

New eBook: The Altaro PowerShell Hyper-V Cookbook by Altaro Software Are you actively using PowerShell to help manage Hyper-V?  Pick up a copy of our new eBook, entitled “The Altaro PowerShell Hyper-V Cookbook”, written by PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks. In this eBook you’ll find a number of recipes to cook up a number of PowerShell scripts […]

DataStor Distributing Paragon Software

DataStor Distributing Paragon Software in Australia This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on 2014.10.02 Paragon Software Group Corporation announced that DataStor has been selected as its first top-tier Australian distributor and lead representative for the Australian launch its Pure Channel Program. Now being rolled out in the Australian market through DataStor, Pure Channel delivers 30% protected […]

Chelsio Newsletter, September 2014

As the iSCSI and iWARP RDMA over 40Gb Ethernet market momentum accelerates, this quarter has seen Chelsio participate in a number of industry firsts, notably the first NVMe over Fabrics prototype demonstration, and first 40Gb FCoE VN2VN (with BB6) product launch. New Products Chelsio released a number of new software products during Q3, including: Unified […]

Banking Alert – JPMorgan Chase Hack Affects Over 76 Million Accounts

Banking Alert: JPMorgan Chase Hack Affects Over 76 Million Accounts Thursday evening, JPMorgan Chase confirmed a system compromise by hackers that affects approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. According to the official statement, both customer contact information and “internal JPMorgan Chase information” relating to users has been compromised. There is currently no […]

Free Script: Fixing Hyper-V Folder Security

Free Script: Fixing Hyper-V Folder Security by Eric Siron My standing recommendation for NTFS security when it comes to Hyper-V is: leave it alone. Unfortunately, most people don’t learn why until they’ve already broken something. It’s not fun to fix. I’ve produced a script for fixing Hyper-V folder security that should make things much easier for […]