There are very few hosting providers in Canada, if any, that take responsibility for the quality of service delivered to real-world end users. This is because hosting providers, even the ones that claim to offer fully managed services, don’t embrace the entire hosting solution stack (see diagram below). In particular, they tend to ignore the […]
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Send Email Notification – Custom Activity for Service Manager
The Problem: There are many blog posts and discussions about sending email notifications from Service Manager. Although Out-of-the-box, Service Manager has strong capabilities for notifications such as:
The Truth About DDoS Attacks: Part 2
In part 1 of this article, we examined the continued increases in the frequency and magnitude of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the growing potential for collateral damage at the datacenter and regional network level, and the trend toward multi-vector DDoS attacks. We will now explore how a “defence-in-depth” approach is necessary to protect your business-critical […]
The Truth about DDoS Attacks: Part 1
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a plague on the Internet. In the last 5 years, the magnitude of DDoS attacks has steadily increased to the point that in a recent NYT interview Matthew Prince from CloudFlare compared DDoS attacks to “nuclear bombs” in their capacity to cause wide-spread damage. While, as the CEO […]
Integrating SharePoint and System Center Orchestrator
The Problem SharePoint workflows, which are based on Microsoft WF, are a great way to automate processes that require human interaction and can be easily managed through SharePoint designer, without any custom development. But when it comes to automating IT processes, Microsoft provides us with another workflows engine called Orchestrator (part of System center). The […]