Category Archives: Vendor

HP Gen10/Skylake-SP Servers now have a new System ROM available for Spectre Vulnerability.

HP has released key System ROMs for their Proliant Gen10 servers to mitigate Variant 2 vulnerabilities for Spectre.  See the release notes HERE Explanation of different Variants of the Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities from HP’s article (Release Microcode pertains to Variant 2): … Continue reading

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Hyper-V and Spectre/Meltdown: Protecting Your Hosts – Do This!

There is a lot of information swirling around out there on what to do with the latest Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Whereas I can’t tell you how to solve the vulnerabilities for for every Hardware and Operating System combination, I can tell … Continue reading

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Architecting Hyper-V for EPIC Systems Session– March 25th Washington D.C.

There is still time to signup for the March 25th FREE workshop at the Microsoft office in Chevy Chase, MD (Just outside D.C).  There have been a lot great news coming out of Epic Systems regarding running Epic workloads on … Continue reading

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Architecting Hyper-V for EPIC Systems Session– March 25th Washington D.C.

  UPDATE: The weather didn’t cooperate with our training in on February 18th in D.C.   Luckily it has been rescheduled for March 25th in the same location at the Chevy Chase, MD Microsoft MTC.  Hoping we can get even a bigger … Continue reading

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Hyper-V Now on EPIC Systems Target Platform List!

Its been a long time coming and lots of folks at EPIC Systems and Microsoft have put effort into thoroughly testing EPIC Hyperspace and Web and Services Servers on Hyper-V 2012 R2.  Finally it has passed all the tests and … Continue reading

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Recent Article: Old OS Past It’s Born On Date = Bad AfterTaste

This month’s Advisory Board article focused on whether there is still an appropriate use case for continuing to use old, unsupported, software.  Naturally the topic of the Windows Server 2003 End of Support date (7/14/2015) approaching was hot on everyone’s … Continue reading

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Vendor Spotlight: PHD Virtual Backup for Hyper-V

Having worked with Hyper-V for quite some time, the debut of PHD Virtual’s Backup for Hyper-V with the v7.0 release further exemplifies the impact that Hyper-V is having in the virtualization world.  If you are not familiar with PHD Virtual, … Continue reading

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