SysAdmin Talk

If you work with ASP.NET and IIS, then chances are Red Gate would get to know you. If could be that you like to hand-craft everything that runs on your production servers. Maybe you’re using IIS 7′s modules to configure server functionality, or perhaps an earlier IIS version gives you all the control you need. However you’re using IIS and ASP.NET, Red Gate is keen to hear from you

The Oracle team at Red Gate thinks Devs rock and have produced at range of wallpapers for mobile and desktop. They’re free and we hope they help to keep you rocking. If you’re not working with Oracle, but you know someone who is, please tell them about Red Gate’s oracle tools and they too can rock out their desk top!

Having a central location to store all your data on the local network can come in very handy when it comes to sharing your files and providing access for other users. FreeNAS is an open source solution that is very quick to setup. My main use for

FreeNAS is for creating shared storage for VMware ESX or ESXi hosts – a requirement when you want to use some of the vSphere clustering features like HA and DRS. I simply provision a VM that it runs on and use that to provide the storage in NFS (Network File System) format to my hosts. FreeNAS supports some great features. Namely – CIFS for Windows shares, FTP, NFS, iSCSI and many others. It also supports software RAID 0, 1, or 5 and is so small, you can even install it on a 64MB flash disk making it portable too.

Are you fast, faultless and powerful? If you are, then take a look at the cool wallpapers (for mobile or desktop) and screensaver that the Oracle team have designed for download. If you’re not working with Oracle, but you know someone who is, please tell them about Red Gate’s oracle tools and they too can add some colour to their desk top!