Creating a sandbox test environment with BackupExec and Veeam
Creating a sandbox test environment with BackupExec and Veeam by Richard Warren, Senior Systems Engineer at Computelec In this series of two posts, I will run you through my processes and experience in creating [...]
Optimising inter-campus WAN link performance
In summary, WAN acceleration is a very effective way to get more efficiency and speed from your existing WAN links. After WAN Acceleration alone, we have seen schools gain up to 10X increase in through put.While we have only shown two scenarios in this post, there are many other ways to optimise your school’s network. If you have any questions about the above or School Networking in general, please get in touch!
VMware vSphere 6.0 – What’s New: Compute
VMware vSphere 6.0 - What's New: by Andrew Lancaster, Systems Engineer at Computelec Now that VMware vSphere 6 has been released I'm sure some of you may be thinking you should go download and [...]
Backup as a Service (BaaS) FAQ’s by Schools
As my job is to design tailored and strategic technology solutions for school environments, I naturally talk to schools every day. When it comes to Backups, I keep hearing ‘I just want it to work’, or ‘I don’t want to worry about it’, and more frequently now ‘I just want someone else to deal with it’. I hear your pain, that's why Backup as a Service exists! These days it seems like everyone is getting onto the Backup as a Service (or BaaS) bandwagon! With the ongoing costs managing, repairing, maintaining, replacing, supporting, troubleshooting, etc, etc of LTO tapes, tape library's, offsite storage providers, disk arrays, backup software, licensing, agents, time, warranties, manpower, power, rack space and air-conditioning... it’s all just getting a bit much and the idea of a simple Backup as a Service solution is very compelling.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) explained
Most schools in Australia are now moving beyond asking “what is cloud computing?” and on to “how can we implement cloud computing?”. Now that cloud is a popular solution, the major decisions to make become what kind of service to use and when.
Is Education at a Crossroads?
In an era of rapid technology development, it’s hard not to conclude that education is at a crossroads. World experts on the interaction between technology, pedagogy and innovation believe we live in an era where students are potentially learning more at home than they are at school because that is where they have better access to information and connection to other people all over the world.