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Top 5 Cloud based apps for your enterprise

nilanchal — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:27:29 +0000

1: Zoho Projects: Category: Project Management
2: DimDim, Category: Web Meeting
3: FreshBooks, Category: Financial Management
4: Zoho CRM, Category: Customer Relationship Management
5: Clarizen, Category: Project Management

Google Services now available from CommandLine Linux Tool

nilanchal — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:35:40 +0000

Google shows its love for linux by unveiling a commandLine tool that would enable Linux users to have Cloud Computing on fingertips. The new Tool, GoogleCL enables access to all Google Services: Picasa, Youtube, Blogger etc right from the terminal (commandLine).

Uploading photos to Picasa is now as easy as the command below:

$ google picasa create –title “My New album” ~/Photos/*.jpg

GoogleCL utility works across various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.

For Instance

$ google blogger post –blog “My blog” –tags “python, googlecl, development” my_post.html
$ google calendar add “Dinner party with George today at 6pm” # add event to calendar
$ google docs delete –title “Evidence”
$ google youtube post –category Education –devtags GoogleCL killer_robots.avi
$ google docs edit –title “Shopping list” –editor vim

GoogleCL is a pure Python application that uses GData nder the hood to support all Google services seamlessly.

Few Examples: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/ExampleScripts

Endless Possibilites:-
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So what’s wickedest things you can do with this? Perhaps, anything, now create CRON jobs for scheduling blog posts, removing information, upload locally recorded videos automatically at periodic times, OR you can automate a number of tasks on Google accounts through scripts, templates, Really, sky is the limit.

Winners Vs. Loosers

nilanchal — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:10:00 +0000

Winners have dreams;
Losers have schemes.

Winners see the grains;
Losers see the pain.

Winners see the potential;
Losers see the past.

Winners make it happen;
Losers let it happen.

Winners see possibilities;
Losers see problems.

Winners makes commitments;
Losers makes promises.

Winners are a part of the team;
Losers are apart from the team.

Winner always has a programme;
Loser always has an excuse.

Winner says “Let me do it for you”;
Loser says “That is not my job”.

Winners say “I must do something”;
Losers say “Something must be done”.

Winner is always a part of the answer;
Loser is always a part of the problem.

Winner sees an answer for every problem;
Loser sees a problem for every answer.

Winners believe in win/win;
Loser believe for them to win, someone has to lose.

Winner says “It may be difficult but it is possible”;
Loser says “It may be possible but it is too difficult”.

Winner makes a mistake. he says “I was wrong”;
Loser makes a mistake, he says “It wasn’t my fault”

Too much hype about the cloud? – This will bring you down to earth

nilanchal — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:02:19 +0000

I am a huge fan of cloud computing, not that it is suitable for all companies, but that it will grow big and that in a couple of years the majority of the organizations will have some kind of involvement in the cloud, whether it is through apps or storage or services.

The cloud offers huge benefits including cost savings, ease of scalability, minimal management and maintenance, infinite resources available, easy implementation, improved performance, etc.

However, this posting is for all of you that are only looking at all the benefits above and are considering moving to the cloud just because Google and Microsoft are spending billions in its development. Do not take me wrong, that might actually be the right move, but you first need to consider a couple of concerns surrounding the cloud before you publish your final decision.

You can place the concerns into three different buckets:

* Scalability and Throughput
* Strategic Advantage
* Privacy laws/Data Security

Seven tips to make the value case for disaster recovery

nilanchal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:45:35 +0000

1. Sell a disaster recovery program by doing a risk assessment or a business impact analysis.
2. Stop talking about disaster recovery and business continuity as an IT program or in terms of IT’s underlying recovery objectives.
3. BC/DR should really be integrated into an organization’s normal change processes, ideally at the architectural stage.
4. Focus on business process resiliency.
5. Lay out a five-year plan that shows improvement over time by, for example, taking additional risks out, or by better supporting a business need, or speeding the recovery time, or reducing error rates.
6. Make sure DR is dependent on more than a few trained individuals.
7: Test the plan.

How to decrypt an Oracle password using John the Ripper and checkpwd

nilanchal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:39:37 +0000

In Oracle 10g and all previous versions, the password is not encrypted at all! It is simply a DES hash that is salted with the username, both of which can be found quite easily in the DBA_USERS view. DES strength is based more on the length of the hashed password than the complexity (which is hobbled by the passwords being converted to capital letters, and there are also some special characters that cannot be used). In Oracle 11g, if backwards compatibility is not necessary, SHA-1 is used exclusively, uses an unlisted salt, and is a MUCH harder nut to crack.

Your best bet is to use one of the very effective Oracle password crackers available, such as Red-Database-Security.com’s Checkpwd or John the Ripper. Both are free and work on nearly every platform/OS. CheckPwd uses a dictionary attack and given the dictionary files available (you can always tailor your own as well), it is VERY effective. John the Ripper has both dictionary and brute force attacks. A well-crafted dictionary attack is often very productive and amazingly fast because of its focused nature.

Internet Explorer 7 on your Linux Machine

nilanchal — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:37:44 +0000

Ever fancied running Internet Explorer 7 (or even earlier versions) on your Linux machine but didn’t find an easy way of doing it – admit it, wine doesn’t work that smoothly – IEs4Linux is the solution

Installation Steps below:

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation

Hyper-V and VMware ?

nilanchal — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:56:56 +0000

Many will argue one way or another, but there is no real answer. The reality is that both of these are great virtualization solutions and it is up to you to choose the one that works best for your situation. Instead of comparing Hyper-V and VMware with different comparison tables and charts (as many websites have been doing) I want to talk about these two virtualization solutions as two separate entities.

Part 1: Usability

http://windowsserver.trainsignal.com/hyper-v-and-vmware-ease-of-use

Part 2: Features

http://windowsserver.trainsignal.com/hyper-v-vmware-vsphere-features

Part 3: Cost

http://windowsserver.trainsignal.com/hyper-v-vmware-cost

EnterpriseDB offers Oracle database users a ‘bailout program’

nilanchal — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:15:37 +0000

oping to steal away Oracle customers in light of that company’s price hikes, open source vendor EnterpriseDB has unveiled a program to entice them to migrate from Oracle to Postgres Plus Advanced Server.

Slyly calling it an “Oracle Bailout Program,” the Oracle Migration Assessment Program was created in direct response to Oracle’s quietly raising prices on selected database modules up to 40% on July 1.

“Oracle’s price hikes might be good news for those on Wall Street, but they’re terrible news for IT departments trying to function in the worst economy since the Great Depression,” said Ed Boyajian, the president and CEO of EnterpriseDB.

CIO News: Beware these risks of cloud computing, from no SLAs to vendor lock-in

nilanchal — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:10:37 +0000

There are many benefits to the various cloud computing models. But for each benefit, such as cost savings, speed to market and scalability, there are just as many risks and gaps in the cloud computing model.

The on-demand computing model in itself is a dilemma. With the on-demand utility model, enterprises often gain a self-service interface so users can self-provision an application, or extra storage from an Infrastructure as a Service provider. This empowers users and speeds up projects. The flip side: Such services may be too easy to consume.

There are several other big what-ifs regarding providers. For example, do they have service-level agreements (SLAs)? Can you get an SLA that covers security parameters, data privacy, reliability/availability and uptime, data and infrastructure transparency?

“You can’t see behind the [cloud providers'] service interface so you don’t know what their storage capabilities really are, what their infrastructure really is … so how can you make SLA guarantees [to users]?” said Anne Thomas-Manes, an analyst at Midvale, Utah-based Burton Group.

Furthermore, would the provider be able to respond to an e-discovery request? “Is that on the SLA, and is that information classified, easily accessible and protected?” she asked.

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1363821,00.html?track=NL-964&ad=718702&asrc=EM_NLN_8881412&uid=9117895#cloud