Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Hottest products at Interop 2015

Interop 2015 features products from networking, cloud, virtualization and security vendors.

Interop 2015
Interop 2015 is in full swing this year with an estimated 12,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors, including 125 new ones compared to last year. Check out our roundup of the hottest products and services being announced or displayed at this year’s conference.

Mobile Power Packs
Key features: Mobile power packs, including 3000, 5000 and 10000mAh models, keep USB mobile devices like smartphones and tablets charged on-the-go, so you can stay connected wherever life takes you.

Sentinel
Key features: Sentinel monitors data centers 24/7, surveys 12 status conditions and sends alerts via phone, text or email. Cloud-based logging provides unlimited storage and protects against data loss.

LiquidPlanner Dashboards
Key features: Our new Dashboards feature is an easy and powerful way to share important project information with team members and stakeholders—inside and outside your company.

PRTG Network Monitor
Pricing: free for 100 sensor license, starts at $1600 for 500 sensors and increases with scale

Key features: PRTG Network Monitor includes new sensors to monitor the loading time of web servers worldwide and the ping time to any device, in any location.

XCom Global World Wi-Fi Hotspot Rental
Key features - Expanded LTE coverage in Asia-Pacific. In addition to Japan and South Korea, XCom Global is now offering secure, reliable super-fast LTE Internet connections in Thailand, Taiwan, China and Australia.

ARC CBA850 Cellular Broadband Adapter with Out-of-Band Management
Key features: Cradlepoint ensures critical network uptime by combining secure cloud access with 4G LTE networking, failover and unique Out-of-Band Management capabilities without the traditional need for costly static IPs.

CenturyLink Orchestrate
Key features: Orchestrate is a fully managed database service for rapid application development. The service allows developers to easily manage, search & manipulate data from multiple, disparate databases through a single GUI.

FLX UC 1000 IP & USB Conference Phone
Key features: One Phone for All: Supports USB audio for softphone calls and SIP telephony for all market-leading IP PBXs. Features HD audio quality for call bridging between VoIP and USB calls.

Jolata TruFlow Platform
Key features: Jolata’s TruFlow Platform is a software-based network analytics solution that identifies latency and other hard-to-find problems in physical and virtual networks to see precisely how a network is performing – with microsecond precision and in real-time.

Open Networking Adapter
Key features: provides instant network identity to any device with an Ethernet port including medical devices, manufacturing equipment, kiosks, and branch offices. The pocket-sized appliance leverages commercial, off the shelf processing with an Open Virtual Switch (OVS), Avaya extensions and SDN Control to extend the power and flexibility of SDN to any Ethernet-enabled device or location.

Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 5900 Series
Key features: Premium Stackable Chassis system providing high-performance, convergence-ready, resilient and secure Ethernet switching connectivity. Supporting Avaya’s innovative Fabric technology, it delivers virtual fabric services to the network edge /wiring closet environment. More info

CloudShell
Key features: CloudShell is a cloud automation platform that features:
Visual modeling of complete infrastructure environments
Resource management of physical, virtual and public cloud elements
Visual orchestration workflow authoring

NetCrunch 8.6
Key features: NetCrunch 8.6 features a brand-new GUI, cloud-monitoring capabilities, dynamic widgets for real-time monitoring, and over 400 other changes.

Allot Cloud Access Optimization
Key features: Allot Cloud Access Optimization, with support for Microsoft Office 365, enables enterprises and cloud managed service providers to enhance cloud application visibility, control and security to ensure high user QoE and productivity.

Cloud Workspace Suite Version 4.1
Key features: Cloud Workspace Suite v4.1 is integrated workspace automation software featuring centralized multi-datacenter administration, automated workflow and delivery of Microsoft RemoteApp services, configuration, and deployment.

Tonomi autonomic application delivery and management platform
Key features: Tonomi provides autonomic application delivery and management platform for cloud applications. Tonomi enables applications to become adaptive, self-managed services that will configure, heal, optimize and protect themselves in response to changes within dynamic cloud environments.

One Hybrid Cloud software platform
Key features: CloudVelox delivers an automated cloud DR and migration platform specifically developed for the unique operating demands of existing, multi-tier apps migrating to the AWS cloud and disaster recovery in AWS.

Redbooth Analytics
Key features: collects and visualizes collaboration data – including ownership, overdue tasks, completion potential, and active work – giving managers and teams transparency about efficiency and productivity across tasks, projects and groups.

LiquidSecurity Hardware Security Module (HSM) Family
Key features -- The LiquidSecurity HSM family complete Hardware Based Transaction Security Solution provides a FIPS 140-2 level 2 and 3 partitioned, centralized and elastic key management solution with the highest transaction/sec performance.

EH6100v
Key features: ExtraHop’s EH6100v virtual appliance delivers real-time wire data analysis up to a sustained 10Gbps for AWS cloud and VMware environments, providing enterprises the capacity to monitor cloud-based workloads at scale.

nFAST
Key features: nFAST SW platform enables Resource Attribute Sharing which increases the Velocity of Test Cycles. Key features include Auto-Discovery, Asset Management & Tracking and Cloud Control Orchestration Engine.

Dell SonicWALL TZ Series firewalls
Key features: The new solutions deliver enterprise-class security, featuring a dramatic increase in network performance to support faster Internet speeds, the ability to analyze encrypted SSL traffic and an integrated wireless controller.

LaunchKey White Label
Pricing: LaunchKey White Label - $10 total per month for (small “Powered by LaunchKey” marking); LaunchKey White Label PRO - 10 cents per user per month – (No LaunchKey Markings)

Key features: LaunchKey is a decentralized authentication platform capable of multi-factor authentication, providing your users with password-free or 2-step login from a native mobile app, via LaunchKey White Label.

Tufin Orchestration Suite
Key features: The Tufin Orchestration Suite is a solution to the challenges of network security management in today’s complex environment – providing automation and increased visibility into the daily changes impacting network security.

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Friday, 10 April 2015

Apple Watch sells out almost instantly

Ship dates quickly stretch to June for the new wearable

The Apple Watch sold out almost immediately earlier today, making good on a promise by the company's head of retail that supply would not be sufficient at the start.

Ship times for the low-end Sport and mid-range Watch editions shifted to between four and six weeks within minutes of pre-order opening. Several hours later, all Sport models slipped straight to simply "June," the wide window that the highest-priced wearable, the 18-karat Edition, also showed as a delivery date.
Apple Watch order

Supplies of the Apple Watch sold out almost immediately Friday, with this order -- placed just two minutes after the online store opened -- showing delivery between five and seven weeks from today.

One Computerworld staffer processed an online order just minutes after the Apple online store opened at 12:01 a.m. PT (3:01 a.m. ET), and was told that the Sport model would be delivered between May 13 and May 27.

As is often the case on the first day of sales of a new Apple product, the Cupertino, Calif. company's online store was not rendering in a browser earlier today, likely because of large numbers of customers trying to get in all at once. The Computerworld staffer used the iOS Apple Store app on an iPhone to place the order.

It was impossible to say whether the long lead times were the result of an extremely short supply or an impressive number of orders. Apple may provide more information at its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street on April 27.

Angela Ahrendts, chief of Apple's retail and online sales, said yesterday that supplies would be tight, but spun that as indicative of wide interest as well as small inventories. "We expect that strong customer demand will exceed our supply at launch," Ahrendts said, marking the first time the firm has announced in a press release before a product launch that supplies would fall short.

Apple Watch orders are being taken only online, another unprecedented move by the company. Customers who want to actually try on a Watch -- not just look at them under glass -- must make appointments at an Apple retail store. As reported earlier, those appointments are in 15-min. increments, the time allowed by Apple for a fitting and a quick explanation of the device's features and functions.

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Apple will begin selling the Watch in its stores on April 24, also the earliest delivery date for those who jumped on an online order straight away.

Almost lost in the hubbub about the Watch, the 12-in. Retina-equipped MacBook also went on sale today. The minimalist laptop starts at $1,299 and, in another first, comes in the same three tints as the iPhone and iPad.

The silver and space-gray models of the MacBook showed ship dates of between one and three business days, but the gold-colored laptop was delayed three to four weeks.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

70-467 Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

QUESTION 1
You are using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to configure the backup for ABC
Solutions. You need to meet the technical requirements.
Which two backup options should you configure? (Choose two).

A. Enable encryption of the backup file.
B. Enable compression of the backup file.
C. Disable encryption of the backup file.
D. Disable compression of the backup file.

Answer: B,C

Explanation:


QUESTION 2
You need to convert the Production, Sales, Customers and Human Resources databases to
tabular BI Semantic Models (BISMs).
Which two of the following actions should you perform? (Choose two)

A. You should select the tabular mode option when upgrading the databases using the Database
Synchronization Wizard.
B. You should select the tabular mode destination option when copying the databases using SQL
Server Integration Services (SSIS).
C. You should select the tabular mode option during the installation of SQL Server Analysis
Services.
D. You should redevelop the projects and deploy them using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).

Answer: A,D

Explanation:


QUESTION 3
ABC users report that they are not receiving report subscriptions from SQLReporting01.
You confirm that the report subscriptions are not being delivered.
Which of the following actions should you perform to resolve the issue?

A. You should run the SQL Server 2012 Setup executable on SQLReporting01 to generate a
configuration file.
B. You should reset the password of the SQL Server Service account.
C. You should manually fail over the SSAS cluster.
D. You should restore the ReportServer database on SQLReporting01.

Answer: C

Explanation:


QUESTION 4
ABC users report that they are not receiving report subscriptions from SQLReporting01.
You confirm that the report subscriptions are not being delivered.
Which of the following actions should you perform to resolve the issue?

A. You should run the SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Wizard to upgrade the active node of the
SSAS cluster.
B. You should start the SQL Server Agent on the active node of the SSAS cluster.
C. You should restore the ReportServerTempDB database on SQLReporting01.
D. You should start the SQL Server Agent on SQLReporting01.

Answer: D

Explanation:


QUESTION 5
You need to make the SSAS databases available on SSAS2012 to enable testing from client
applications. Your solution must minimize server downtime and maximize database
availability.
What should you do?

A. You should detach the databases from the SSAS cluster by using SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS) then attach the databases on SSAS2012.
B. You should copy the database files from the SSAS cluster to SSAS2012.
C. You should export the databases from the SSAS cluster by using SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS) then import the databases on SSAS2012.
D. You should restore a copy of the databases from the most recent backup.

Answer: D

Explanation: