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The Impact of Digital's DNA on LANs

IT Toolbox

DEC's implementation of Ethernet was sufficiently important to its view of networking. As a note, DEC was bought out by Compaq which was later acquired by HP.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. F or the past months Ive held that new technologies are OK.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How To Install Windows Home Server 2011.

Sean Daniel

Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. So let’s get started: Connect your MediaSmart or DataVault server to power, and network. Power on the server.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

With the SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 the Connect to the Internet Wizard would analyze your network and determine a static IP address to use, and then ensure you like it before making it the server’s IP address. Once the client goes to [link] , a service is installed called LAN Configuration Service.

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

In part 1 of this series, I covered some networking basics (OSI and DoD models; layer 2 vs. layer 3; bridging, switching, and routing; Spanning Tree Protocol; and ARP and flooding). A virtual LAN , aka a VLAN , allows you to have this ability. Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics. Networking VLAN'

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