I just wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Have a safe and happy season.
As far as YourLifeTech.com is concerned I have been very busy with real life. Moving and studying. I will continue to add articles about things I see and consider worthwhile from time to time.
Enjoy
Cloud Computing is still getting a lot of press these days. Some of it is negative, but most is positive.
I haven’t really been following all the developments in this area as they do not have a direct effect to my workplace. But things are starting to get interesting as the various Cloud provides are starting to introduce services based on the proven technologies such as VMWare and XenServer.
VMWare’s vCloud beta looks interesting and provides a good option for launching cloud based services. VirtualizationAdmin.com has put this together this interesting demo about the VMWare vCloud product and what it does right now.
It looks quite interesting to me.
Would I throw all my servers in the Cloud? No way, but there has certainly been improvements to what is being offered.
This week Google announced that it will be launching a new online service called Google Editions. This service will provide ebooks to any device that has a web browser. Google’s aim is to provide books for any device.
This move from Google will potentially shake up the ebook market, providing a larger range and an open standard for ebooks regardless of the device used to read them.
However there are some potential issues associated with this move. Firstly, Google has come under fire from copyright owners, authors and publishers for the unauthorized scanning and digitalization of books. This will continue to be a sore point until Google comes good. According to reports Google will keep 55% of the profits.
Since upgrading one of my domain controllers to Windows 2008 I had noticed a couple of errors related to VSS around the normal backup times, so I decided to investigate these. The primary message I was receiving was:
Backup started at ‘dd/mm/yyyy time’ failed with the following error code ‘2155348237′ (Enumeration of files failed.). Please rerun backup once issues resolved.
This error message does not help you locate the issue at all. The backup log files in c:\windows\logs\WindowsServerBackup were empty as well. So no help at all.
