Monthly Archives: October, 2011
WiFi signals are everywhere
Great example of how pervasive WIFI signals are everywhere in our lives…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdjfOkPu-E
VDI in a Box
When people think of VDI the first thing that comes to mind is that it is huge and complicated. Most deployments require many servers, a lot of resources and big SAN storage. There are also many layers of software and management to make the deployment run. While this model works well in the enterprise, it [...]
More than Half of 298 U.S. Colleges and Universities Surveyed See Wireless Network Upgrades as a Top Priority for 2012
U.S. colleges and universities scaling back wired LANs and expanding wireless networks to facilitate Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives and multimedia over Wi-Fi SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 18, 2011 – Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) today released the results from a survey focused on the networking priorities of 298 higher education information technology professionals. [...]
XenDesktop 5.5 Personalizing Pooled Desktops
Citrix has taken a major step forward in the evolution of virtual desktops. Up until now we only had two choices for deployment type, pooled or assigned. Pooled desktops are the most efficient but also the most restrictive. Groups of desktops are provisioned around a single image, only the differences between the gold image and [...]
It isn’t Disaster Recovery if …
Implementing “DR” requires planning, policy, organization, technology, documentation, testing, and continual updates to address changes in your business and the technologies it uses. It isn’t DR if you can’t successfully fail over and back, you don’t regularly review and update your DR documentation, you don’t test your plans for both service level and site level [...]
ShoreTel Mobility IOS 5 Support
Apple iOS 5 Compatibility Update Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 This bulletin is to inform ShoreTel field teams and partners of the compatibility status of the ShoreTel Mobility and Communicator products with Apple iOS 5. Product Description / Solution Overview On October 12, 2011 Apple released the iOS 5 software update for customers. This free [...]
Eliminate duplicate client entries in your Aruba controller for clients with more than one IP address or network interface.
My controller shows client’s (smartphones and windows devices with features such as VMware) with the same MAC address but multiple IP addresses (and I know some are invalid) Clients User Name MAC address Client IP User Role Authentication Method ESSID AP Name Phy Type Age Roaming Status Forward Mode [...]
Outdoor Options for Wireless LAN Client Access
BACKGROUND: Comm Solution’s is proud to be an Aruba Platinum Partner. We design, sell, install, integrate and support Aruba’s infrastructure solutions as well as many competing and complimentary products. Our staff has been involved in Wireless LAN technologies dating back to early proprietary solutions, (prior to the development of IEEE 802.11 standards). The Aruba solution-set [...]