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Hosting critical applications in a hardened data center ensures protection from fire, water, theft and other physical threats. But for network threats - like malicious traffic that bypasses your firewall or vulnerabilities due to configuration issues or lack of attention - you need to do more.
IntelliSecurity Managed Security provides multiple lines of defense, or "defense in depth." Defense in depth consists of different types of protection deployed at multiple layers: perimeter, network, host, application, and data. This comprehensive strategy ensures the integrity of your network by building a series of barriers - each designed to detect, prevent and defend against specific threats.
IntelliSecurity empowers you to keep pace with today's complex security threats - and offers network-critical businesses concerned about maintaining the integrity of their data and achieving regulatory compliance require a comprehensive security program that includes:
24x7x365 Management and Monitoring of Security Devices by Certified Security Experts
Real-Time Security Intelligence that Enables Proactive, Preemptive Security Posturing
A Learning Environment with Global Visibility Across a Variety of Security Platforms
A Constantly Evolving Array of Technologies and Technical Disciplines
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Verio's IntelliSecurity is a comprehensive suite of managed network security services that minimize risks at a fraction of the cost of doing it in-house. The IntelliSecurity Managed Services portfolio includes:
Managed Firewall
A full array of monitoring, analysis and tracking solutions are available.
Managed Intrusion Prevention
Intrusion detection and prevention that identifies suspicious activity, notifies the appropriate parties, and takes proactive steps to mitigate the threat.
Managed Access Control Access control to filter incoming traffic to servers.
Anti-virus Optional anti-virus support with select IntelliSecurity service packages minimize the risk posed by malicious code within the data stream.
Anti-spam Optional anti-spam capabilities with select IntelliSecurity service packages assist customers with a hosted email server that identifies and deletes unwanted messages.
Content Filtering Optional content filtering support that monitors and prevents web surfing to dangerous or inappropriate sites.
Multi-Vendor Support A scalable, vendor-neutral platform featuring network security leaders like ISS, Nokia Check Point and NetScreen.
IntelliSecurity Customer Portal An interactive security portal for viewing device status, checking logs and interacting with security analysts.
Service Level Agreement Aggressive, performance-based SLAs that govern system monitoring, application/content updates and change management.
Professional Security Services Network Penetration Testing, Information Security Assessment, Emergency Response Service, and Vulnerability Management.
Why Managed Security Services from Verio?
Deep Hosting and Managed Services Experience As a global provider of Internet technology and web hosting services, thousands of customers trust us to manage their mission-critical applications within NTTA data centers. Now we're extending our network security expertise to you.
Unparalleled Security Competence Our security technicians are highly trained experts who have hands-on experience with the latest threats and vulnerabilities across a variety of clients and platforms. The result? Unprecedented technology and security experience leveraged for your business - without the expense and challenge of recruiting, managing and retaining a world-class IT security organization.
Risk-Sharing Across Customer Base As an "always-on" global security provider, we have advance warning of new vulnerabilities and early access to information on countermeasures. We preempt security threats for many of our customers before they become a problem.
Business Continuity IntelliSecurity Managed Security Service extends the physical security of our data centers into the network. Security analysts based in our security operations center (SOC) manage and monitor your network traffic 24x7x365, and can restore full services in less than an hour.
Reliability of a Financially Strong Technological Leader Verio is a global force. We provide a level of stability and technological leadership unsurpassed in the world today. We are strongly positioned to provide the IT solutions your business needs well into the future. You can count on us to be there when you need us. We're here today. We'll be here tomorrow. Two key facets of our delivery model enable us to ensure that IntelliSecurity Managed Services is a cost-effective solution for your business:
Economies of Scale By centralizing security experts, security event monitoring, threat analysis and response in our security operations centers, we spread our investment across all clients.
ScalabilityThrough support for a variety of hardware and software platforms, we can "right-size" a security solution that provides 24x7x365 protection at a level and price-point that fits your organization's specific security needs. Our managed security solution scales as your business requirements change.
IntelliSecurity Managed Services Packages: Defense In Depth...
Verio's IntelliSecurity Managed Services offers a full range of service packages to fully empower your defense in depth strategy!
Layer
Configuration
Perimeter
Firewall
IntelliSecurity Check Point Level I, II, IIA, III, IIIA, IV, & IVA
IntelliSecurity NetScreen Level I & II
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
Network
DMZ
IntelliSecurity Check Point Level I, II, III, IIIA, IV & IVA
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
Host
IDS/IPS
IntelliSecurity Intrusion Prevention I, II & III
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
IntelliSecurity Server Sensor
IntelliSecurity Desktop
Anti-Virus
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
Application
Anti-Spam
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
Content Filtering
IntelliSecurity Protection I, II & III
Data
ACL
IntelliSecurity SecureEntrance
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2 GB Memory
2 x 36GB (3G) SAS Hot-Plug Drives
RAID Controller with Battery-backed Cache (BBWC)
Redundant Power Supplies
HP ProLiant DL385-G2 Base Bundle
Dual-Core AMD CPU
2 GB Memory
2 x 36GB (3G) SAS Hot-Plug Drives
RAID Controller with Battery-backed Cache (BBWC)
Redundant Power Supplies
HP ProLiant DL580-G4 Base Bundle
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RAID Controller with Battery-backed cache (BBWC)
Redundant Power Supplies
HP ProLiant DL585-G2 Base Bundle
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2 x 36GB (3G) SAS Hot-Plug Drives
RAID Controller with Battery-backed Cache (BBWC)
Redundant Power Supplies
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VERITAS Cluster Server
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HP Proliant Servers from Verio
Verio proudly offers Hewlett-Packard's newest Proliant server solutions, now offering the robustness and reliability of multi-core processors and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage as standard architectures on most models. Verio has forged a strong relationship with Hewlett-Packard, one of the industry's most respected technology solution providers, as part of our strategy to provide the most resilient and performance focused solutions available.Why Choose an HP Proliant Server from Verio?
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Sun Servers

Verio is excited to offer Sun Microsystems' newest CoolThreads and UltraSPARC server solutions, now offering the robustness and reliability of multi-core processors and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage as standard architectures on most models. Verio and Sun have benefited from a long term relationship as partners in the IT outsourcing market and are working together to deliver a variety of technology and service management solutions to help our customers meet their IT business needs.
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Sun servers from Verio are certified to operate with Solaris 10, one of the computing industry’s most tested and feature-rich operating systems.
Sun servers offer standard pre-installed software and come with mirrored boot drives for the ultimate in resiliency and performance.
Sun servers can be configured and/or modified to meet your business requirements.
Sample Pre-configured Sun Server Packages:Here are just a few of our options; each can be modified to meet your specific requirements.
Sun V245 Base Bundle
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Hardware RAID Controller
Redundant Power Supplies
Solaris 10
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2 GB Memory
2 x 73 GB SAS Hot-Plug Drives
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Solaris 10
Sun V245 Cluster Base Bundle
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1 x 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPUs
1 GB Memory
2 x 73 GB SAS Hot-Plug Drives
Hardware RAID Controller
Solaris 10
VERITAS Foundation Enterprise HA for Oracle
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Sun V445 Base Bundle
2 x 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPU
4 GB Memory
4 x 73 GB SAS Hot-Plug Drives
Hardware RAID Controller
Redundant Power Supplies
Solaris 10
Sun T2000 Base Bundle - NEW !!!
1 x 8-core 1.0 GHz/3-MB UltraSPARC T1 CPU
8 GB Memory
2 x 73 GB SAS Hot-Plug Drives
Hardware RAID Controller
Redundant Power Supplies
Solaris 10
Sun V445 Cluster Base Bundle
2 x Sun Fire V445 servers
2 x 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPUs
4 GB Memory
4 x 73 GB SAS Hot-Plug Drives
Hardware RAID Controller
Solaris 10
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E-Book Readers and the Single-Device Paradox

There is no doubt that all media is going digital. And while I think it will remain possible quite far into the future to curl up by the fire with a good book, it will be much more likely that it will be some form of electronic book reader that will be keeping you warm instead. If you've not seen these, think of them as .mp3 players for words and illustrations, and many can also play those .mp3s. A few examples of products available now include the Sony Reader Digital Book, Amazon's Kindle, and Hanlin's eReader. These mobile devices are optimized for this function, and, despite US$300+ unit prices, can be quite economical in operation. They tend to be much larger than PDAs (hardly pocket-sized) and have excellent screens that are visible even in bright sunlight. E-books are cheaper than paper books, arguably more convenient to use, and just think of the savings in trees and shelf space. The Kindle will even deliver e-books (and some blogs, newspapers and magazines, as well as Wikipedia) to you via Sprint's EV-DO wireless network. It's not the Web, but how cool is that?
Despite all that, however, I'm not going to conclude here that there's an e-book reader in your future. In fact, I think it's unlikely that the e-book reader, at least as presently conceived, will ever be very successful at all. And this reason for this is our old friend the single-device paradox. Most people just aren't going to carry yet another device. They most certainly do want to read books and other publications, but they want that function on the handset they have to carry anyway. Another thing to lug, power, and manage? It's not going to happen very often. I'm still dealing with the three to four mobile devices I usually travel with - way too much already, and this set doesn't include a camera (other than the one in the phone, which isn't too good), an .mp3 player, a movie player, or an e-book reader.
And thus it remains fair to continue to ask if we can ever really build a single plastic pal who's fun to be with, a mobile personal communicator that really can do it all. The example of Star Trek comes to mind here. You may recall they had the tiny communicator badge for voice, and the handheld tricorder for data - two separate mobile devices aimed at different missions. Well, if they haven't solved the single-device paradox 400 years from now, what chance do we have? But that doesn't mean we can or will go crazy with lots of purpose-built point solutions. So while I will concede that there will be some successful e-book readers, largely resident with, somewhat paradoxically, the stay-at-home, only-very-locally-mobile types, most of us will expect and require this functionality on the personal communicator handset of our choice. The naturally device-independent interface between e-media and the player/viewer/whatever device demands such a solution.

Population Density Dictates Broadband Service Quality

We have discovered a direct mathematical correlation between population density and broadband access quality. We both recently spent time in the wilds of Montana and Maine, and noticed that local broadband speeds were noticeably slower than on our home turfs in Massachusetts and Virginia. As it turns out, moving from the 3rd and 14th most densely populated states in the union to those ranked 48th and 38th explained the difference.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) just released their second annual survey of US consumer broadband access performance. The survey is a byproduct of the Speed Matters website where you can test your Internet connection's upload and download speeds, and CWA records test results by zip code. This is a valuable service and a welcome addition to the general knowledge base about the Internet. You can find the report here.
The news headline takeaway from the CWA and similar studies is that the US lags ominously behind the rest of the industrial nations in providing adequate Internet access to its citizens. Our takeaway is different—densely populated states stack up relatively well against the rest of the world, while sparsely populated states are like third world countries.
Mathematical Relationship between Population Density and Broadband Quality: The CWA report provides median upload and download speeds for all 50 states and we found that state speed rankings follow population density rankings almost exactly. In fact we were able to derive the following simple formulas to predict access speed:
Upstream Bandwidth (Kbps) = 335 + Population Density (people per square mile)
Downstream Bandwidth (Kbps) = 4.7 x Upstream Bandwidth
So you can see that bandwidth is directly related to population density. Yes, there are some exceptions like Connecticut that should be twice as fast given its population density. But overall the formula has an error of +/- 20%.
It doesn't take much to figure out what is at the heart of this relationship—economics. Wiring a region for fast broadband Internet access requires a huge investment, and an enviable return on that investment is easier when buyers are packed cheek to jowl than when they are a day's ride apart as in Montana and Maine.
If you plug the population densities of industrial nations like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Singapore and most of Europe into our formula, you get access speeds four to 40 times that of the US. If we are right that population density drives Internet access economics, then the US will always trail about three-quarters of the world's countries unless we take legislative action.
The "leading" countries are often cited as beating the US in the bandwidth race due to their "national Internet policy". Although policies may have helped, we postulate that their population densities are a bigger factor—so we shouldn't just copy another nation's policy. A national US bandwidth policy must be unique because our rural characteristics are unique.
But we've been down this path before with rural electric and telephone service build-outs. Addressing the economic imbalance underlying Internet service quality discrepancies will require something akin to the rural electrification and universal telecommunications access programs that lit up and connected

Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 – a pleasant surprise!

In my previous post, I was a bit critical of the latest version of the Upgrade Advisor. Well, after going through that painful process, I proceeded onto my upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 using the "in-place" method. I was pleasantly surprised how smooth the transition was. And everything seemed to work after the upgrade. Awesome! I knew Katmai would deliver...
There are a couple choices when upgrading: Migration vs In-place Upgrade. The migration path allows you to install a fresh instance of the latest release and then to copy databases over from the legacy instances to the new instance. The Copy Database Wizard is the easiest method to use. However, Detach/Attach and Backup/Restore work just as well. The Wizard, however, wins my vote because it prompts you to also copy Server level objects such as Logins which would have to be done manually using the other methods. Migration is attractive if you want to start with brand new hardware and a brand new configuration. The downside is that the clients will need to be updated to point to the new server after the transition. If things go wrong you can always revert to the old installation. The in-place upgrade may be attractive where the same hardware will be used and the upgrade is required on all databases at the same time. If the upgrade is judged to be low risk, then an in-place upgrade may be chosen. In the case of upgrading SQL Server 2005 to 2008, the new release is evolutionary not revolutionary, using the same architecture so an in-place upgrade may be a common choice. Just make sure you have a good backup of the server in case things go wrong! If you are upgrading from SQL Server 2000, you may choose to purchase new hardware and go the migration route because of the significant differences. As always, it depends on your situation.
I chose to perform an in-place upgrade on my server after reviewing the output from the Upgrade Advisor. Not many serious issues except some of the deprecated features which I can take care of later. I ran the upgrade using the install program against my SQL Server 2005 SP2 instance. I had to make sure my Windows Server 2003 was up to SP2 also before proceeding as the install checks for that. It also installs the .NET Framework 3.5 as a prerequisite. The upgrade took around 30 minutes and required a reboot. I tested SQL Server Management Studio against my databases and all looked good. I used Excel 2007 to access one of my upgraded cubes using Analysis Services and that worked too. I launched Reporting Services and my existing reports continued to work as designed. Business Intelligence Development Studio launched Visual Studio 2008 and I was able to open my Report Project successfully (after a minor conversion process - still worth making a backup, just in case). I modified some existing RDL's using the slick new Report Designer (which has been improved immensely over the early CTPs). I even updated one of my reports to include the new Dundas feature of dynamic scalebreaks and it worked like a charm. Very cool.
My confidence has been restored in Microsoft technology! I am now excited again to be teaching SQL Server 2008 to our early adopter clients. What a difference a day makes!
Cheers Brian

Asterisk

While Asterisk IP PBX software can be a boon for cash-strapped businesses that need phone upgrades, the free, open source platform has also spawned a host of for-profit vendors that charge for Asterisk professional services, peripherals and software extensions and still manage to undercut the prices charged by more established IP PBX vendors.
Digium, the business founded by Asterisk creator Mark Spencer to capitalize on his PBX, says it plans later this year to release a new version that will support much larger deployments. New Jersey-based service provider VoicePulse plans a hosted PBX service based on Asterisk deployed on virtual servers.
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With successful partnerships already under its belt, the company promises to broaden its influence this year as 3Com makes Asterisk available on a blade for its multifunction branch-office routers. This is in addition to the relabeled commercial Asterisk appliance made by Digium for 3Com small-business customers.
In Japan, NTT Software, a subsidiary of the country’s biggest phone company, is preparing PBX appliances of its own that are based on Asterisk.
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On a smaller scale, a growing group of start-ups lies at the heart of an Asterisk-based business community that has sprung up to exploit the basic platform. For instance, vendors Escaux and Fonality, to name a few, sell full-blown custom Asterisk PBXs. Critical Links’ Edgebox surrounds Asterisk with a router, Wi-Fi access point, NAC and other security to fashion a branch-office-in-a-box device.
Even an Asterisk online superstore called The VoIP Connection has sprung up to sell Asterisk appliances as well as phones, headsets, gateways and other add-ons needed

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Asterisk is no longer just a PBX footnote
The open source PBX software is at the center of an alternative telephony market
By Tim Greene , Network World , 01/24/2008

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While Asterisk IP PBX software can be a boon for cash-strapped businesses that need phone upgrades, the free, open source platform has also spawned a host of for-profit vendors that charge for Asterisk professional services, peripherals and software extensions and still manage to undercut the prices charged by more established IP PBX vendors.
Digium, the business founded by Asterisk creator Mark Spencer to capitalize on his PBX, says it plans later this year to release a new version that will support much larger deployments. New Jersey-based service provider VoicePulse plans a hosted PBX service based on Asterisk deployed on virtual servers.
Don't Miss!New! Watch this Network World Webcast - The Geek Speaks: Mastering Network Monitoring in the SMB
With successful partnerships already under its belt, the company promises to broaden its influence this year as 3Com makes Asterisk available on a blade for its multifunction branch-office routers. This is in addition to the relabeled commercial Asterisk appliance made by Digium for 3Com small-business customers.
In Japan, NTT Software, a subsidiary of the country’s biggest phone company, is preparing PBX appliances of its own that are based on Asterisk.
Related Content
Burning questions about Asterisk
Digium’s AsteriskNow provides solid IP PBX base
Going it alone with Asterisk requires some effort
Digium buys Switchvox
Blog: Surprise to Cisco? Asterisk wins InfoWorld's 2008 Best IP PBX awardBLOG
Blog: Cisco vs. Asterisk via FonalityBLOG
Blog: Cisco's a bad bet for phone systems, says Dell VoIP partner FonalityBLOG
Skype won't say if it decrypts VoIP calls for law enforcement
The mandate for SIP to be interoperableBLOG
IPhone gets 802.1x authenticationView all related articles
On a smaller scale, a growing group of start-ups lies at the heart of an Asterisk-based business community that has sprung up to exploit the basic platform. For instance, vendors Escaux and Fonality, to name a few, sell full-blown custom Asterisk PBXs. Critical Links’ Edgebox surrounds Asterisk with a router, Wi-Fi access point, NAC and other security to fashion a branch-office-in-a-box device.
Even an Asterisk online superstore called The VoIP Connection has sprung up to sell Asterisk appliances as well as phones, headsets, gateways and other add-ons needed to set up Asterisk networks.
It may not be right for every business, particularly the largest, but some vendors claim their Asterisk-based gear and services can cost one-tenth as much as equipment sold by major vendors such as Avaya, Cisco, Nortel, NEC and Siemens. (Learn more about IP PBX products from our IP PBX Buyer's Guide.)
Would you ever consider an open source IP PBX?
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Despite its impressive array of partners, Asterisk is still a minor player in the PBX world, says Matthias Machowinski, an analyst for Infonetics Research.
In research his firm did a year ago in which 240 businesses were interviewed, just two said they used Asterisk-based gear, he says. “I would think it’s a small part of the market,” he says.