JAMF Software : Management Software for Macintosh Professionals

JAMF Software : Management Software for Macintosh Professionals
The Casper Suite simplifies the life of system administrators with one tool to inventory, image, update, and maintain Macintosh computers. It also reduces the work associated with many aspects of the Macintosh Systems Lifecycle. The Casper Suite enables practices that improve the quality of IT while reducing the time and cost needed to provide support and solutions. In addition to increased efficiency for IT staffs, organizations also achieve a reduction in liability related to license management, SOX compliance, security, and other regulatory concerns.

The central component of the Casper Suite, the JAMF Software Server (JSS), runs seamlessly on Mac OS X Server and takes about a minute to install. All of the other applications within the Suite communicate back to this server using industry standard SSL encryption that allows for a single point of management.

The suite is designed to scale to large organizations in multiple geographic locations. The communication between client computers and the central server is minimal, and the frequency can be completely determined by an administrator. When packages are deployed, AFP or SMB file servers are utilized on the local network, keeping the large traffic on the LAN and off the WAN/Internet.

Awesome.

Hat Tip (www.macwork.com)

Commandsoft – Xsan competition?

Commandsoft
Want a truly affortable SAN? FibreJet enterprise-class storage network gives multiple computers concurrent access to terabytes of storage using just about anyones storage over Fibre Channel. Apple’s Xsan costs $23,383 more than a 6-node FibreJet solution using identical equipment!

Higer-performance Storage Networking
FibreJet is sometimes 500% the performance of Xsan for the equivelent file-copy operation! FibreJet finds a file in 5 seconds compared to taking over 4 minutes with the same operation in Xsan!

Need to do more reading on this. Looks interesting.

New Intel Xserves are available for Pre-order

Go get them now! They will ship in November.

The Xserve packs phenomenal power and industry-leading capabilities into a high-density, 1U rackmount server that fits easily into any network environment. And this award-winning UNIX-based server just got a 5x ⁽¹⁾ performance boost over the Xserve G5, thanks to quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon processing. Additional features include up to 2.25TB storage, two eight-lane PCI Express slots, dual onboard Gigabit Ethernet, and a combo drive. With all this, the Xserve provides the stability you need and the performance you want, starting at just $2999.

Fire Your Tech Guy.20 – Poor Man’s Microsoft Exchange – Zimbra.com

Today we talk about www.Zimbra.com , a cross-platform email collaboration server that is now able to compete with Microsoft Exchange. In the past, Mac and Linux users could not truly join the Exchange world.

Those days are over, and Zimbra is a compelling solution.

Give a listen.

Topic suggestions are suggested via the suggestion box at birdDogdigital@gmail.com . Suggest away, creative people.

Fire Your Tech Guy.19b – Recap of Gmail as backup – Airport Extreme – Express for home

Today we talk about some of our older episodes, take some feedback to heart, and talk about ways to use the Airport Extreme and Airport Express to easily build the “Poor Man’s home audio system”

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/unwireyourlivingroom.html

www.AlamedaMac.com

We are currently taking topics for big episode #20.

Topic suggestions are suggested via the suggestion box at birdDogdigital@gmail.com . Suggest away, creative people.

YouTube – Near-Time New Features

YouTube – Near-Time New Features

I’m looking at things like www.Zimbra.com and I find this too:

Near-Time leverages the new Web to deliver seamless collaboration. Forget email threads or trying to find the latest file in your inbox. You can even forget spam. Near-Time delivers a private and secure collaboration service for groups to share ideas, information, files and calendars. By integrating weblogs and wikis, Near-Time transforms work into knowledge. All your team needs is a browser and the Web. Upgrade your team with Near-Time.

CESDS0078 – How to locate your Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (PST) File – HPC Factor

CESDS0078 – How to locate your Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (PST) File – HPC Factor

This is good information, and the post on EZbackup.com inspired finding this specific link.

So you are trying to backup your data, thinking that if your machine was destroyed, you would like to keep your files. Well, your PST file, or .pst file, is not in your my documents, nor in any other file that you can see. It is in a hidden folder, and that hidden folder is hard to find.

That said, any backup system that you get, such as EZbackup.com should grab that file. One of the nice things about EZbackup.com is that it doesn’t back up the whole PST file each and every time it changes (which for email, is as often as you check your mail.)

EZbackup.com cracked the code, so to speak, on the pst files, and only backs up the changes to the file, saving your precious space in your backup bucket.

So, get yourself some backup, and stop worrying about losing your stuff.

EZbackup.com for PCs

EZBackup.com works by copying your computer’s important files to a pair of secure, managed servers, located in 2 geographically-dispersed locations within the U.S. The data transfer takes place via the Internet, happens automatically, and is absolutely secure and hassle-free.
Put “Andrew Snyder” in the download page

Fire Your Tech Guy in 15 Minutes – The Podcast. Episode 15

Version 15 is up, and this is a test to see how files get on the feed.

John Galt Communications, Inc.

John Galt Communications, Inc.

Welcome to John Galt Communications, specialists in telecommunications excellence.  We are here to serve you – from simple small office installations to complex call center CTI and PBX cabling.

We are versed in most of the major telecommunications switches and technologies, as well as IVR (Interactive Voice Response) design, programming and implementation.  We also feature a division dedicated to complex integration – CRM, VoIP and IVR.

Call us!  Licensed and insured: CA #853087

Galt is our provider of Wiring and Telco services. Call us to project manage, or go direct and say you saw them here. Ask for Andrew.