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When I was reading some topics about cloud computing technology, a smart and important post had brought my attention : Government Cloud. In reality, regarding Arabic summer movements, I was thinking how to accelerate IT development in my country and why not in all the Arabic region. Governments ,now, are searching effectiveness and efficient on their programs, reducing costs and bring with them an innovative systems to encourage investment  and improve quality of services. Majority of citizens are asking now for more transparency,  open platforms and agility on Government projects. In other hand, Public sector organizations are increasingly driven to improve operational efficiency, information share and service delivery to satisfy demanding citizens seeking seamless, while significantly reducing the cost of delivery. Recently, Cloud computing has captured significant attention as both a busines...

I found  these animated descriptions for VPLEX   simple and helpful to understand how VPLEX changes things about  Active/Active Datacenter solutions. VPLEX for VMware VPLEX for Oracle VPLEX for Migration   VPLEX for continuous Data Availability

Some of the hot discussion in my organization is about IT Governance and cloud computing. What is the  impact of the cloud on IT Governance? What effect does the emergence of the cloud have on IT strategic investements? It's important when talking about such topics to take a deep time and understand the principals element of IT Governance. This post will talk about the definition of IT Governance, its principales and processes. From a definition point of view, you can resume IT Governance to important questions: What decisions to be made ? Who is accoutable for making decisions? How will the decisions be made? IT Governance aims  to align IT investment with the hole entreprise strategy and works to ensure few principales: Ensure IT is aligned with business. Ensure IT delivers value to the business. Ensure IT manages risks. Ensure IT manages resources. Ensure IT manages performances. So your IT decisions should be aligned to the Entrepr...

When I was working on the first part of disaster recovery project in my organization and in order to develop our Business continuity strategy, I used to read some books and posts about business continuity and DR topics. Some of the very important web site was http://www.iso27001standard.com/en . I was subscribed to the newsletter and I was received 6 important posts about how to start your business continuity project. In this post I will share with you these 6 steps which I believe they are very important and efficient. For sure, if you want additional information, I suggest to do the inscription to the newsletter.  Below the 6 steps to follow in order to lunch your Business continuity project. Step #1 - Define scope and objectives Step #2 - Decide which framework you'll use Step #3 - Determine the necessary resources Step #4 - Get your management buy-in Step #5 - Decide how to approach the imple...

After dialing with Business Impact Assessment and defined your right RTO and RPO value for each critical applications, you can have a very well view about the right failover site for your organization. In this post I will present the different type of failover site which can be right for your disaster recovery site. We can define  four type of failover site : 1- Mirrored site 2- Hot site 3-  Warm site 4-  Cold site 1- Mirrored site     Instantaneously recovers a company’s mission critical applications from a disaster.     Site resides in a geographically distinct data center.     Maintain identical pairs of servers, networks, storage devices.     Most expensive. 2- Hot site     All infrastructure components are prepared, running and ready.       Full duplication of all data and systems.       System configuration a...

It’s very important when starting working on IT project to define the right scope for your mission. I was working these days on DR (Disaster Recovery) project and I have been talked to many colleagues from different departments: Business unit, quality assurance, Audit department and of course IT department. What I have remarked when explaining the need for a Business continuity plan is that every concerned person see only his related scope and  did not have the attitude of general or global vision to the scenario. In fact, when dealing with such kind of project, it’s important to forget your current job and see the problematic from a general perspective. It’s sure for all of the organization that any business process is based usually on business  Application and that each application need resources and infrastructure to run and turn up. Defining  the relationship between your business applications and your IT infrastructure is...

I have faced this issue after integration of new server in our current vmware production cluster. This leads to incompatibility problem with your current HA cluster as you can perform VMotion with below  error message: A simple way to fix this issue is by masking NX/DX bit for the virtual machine. To permanently fix this issue you will require to Enable Interl (R) Virtualization Technology (VT) and Non-Excecute Memory Protection in BIOS. To do this you have: Migrate all running VMs in the  concerned Esx server. Put the Esx server in maintenance Mode. Reboot the Esx server. While the server is initializing Press < F9 > to Boot in the Bios and go to "Advanced Option " Menu.           5. Select "Processor Options"            6. Select "No-Execute  Memory Protection"  and  enable it.                      ...