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By Paul
ISA2004's a real interesting subject, M'soft hints at it but doesn't come right out and say so but it looks to me like it's a virtual network by itself.. they say it should be a stand alone app on a locked down W2K3 server but they include it with SBS and consultants are installing it on DC's and Exchange servers which defeats a lot of it's benefits.. one guy got irritated with me for saying it should be the lone app on a machine.. probably because he'd set it up on a DC... ah well...
PXE's another one.. I watched an M'soft webcast in which a member of the Virtual Server design team demo'ed installing a two node network PXE'd to the machines.. after going thru over an hour's presentation he was ready to show his work off and it didn't run.. there was a silence of about 20-30 seconds followed by some humming&haa'ing then he said he'd forgotten one step in the process but assured everyone that it really did work.. the point is this stuff is so complicated even these guys can get stymied by it.. I downloaded and burned this and a bunch of other webcasts to a CD, aside from this detail it was a good demo and there's a lot to learn from them..
Don't recall if I said this before but one of the school's techs is in 2 of the classes I'm taking and he was saying that they managed 4,000 systems with 6 techs.. he also said a few years ago a company with 3,000 desktops would have 100 techs, now due to all the changes and improvements they can do the same with 10.. his point was that these jobs have gone away for good..
My reading is that the technology is continuing to improve and that there'll be an even bigger squeeze in the future where there'll be fewer jobs requiring higher skills, maybe paying better but not if they can be offshored to some place where the skills can be found for less.. that being the case all that'll be left will be a few low level tech jobs where they trundle out replacement systems when something breaks.. it won't be worth fixing anything..
Along those lines I see the use of blades as another indication that we're returning to the pre-PC days of centralized computing and dumb terminals, or systems with basic capabilities but no hard drives... all the big companies are quietly pushing blades as the big solution to security and spam, pretty soon all those battalions of workers in cubicles won't be able to download music and movies because all they'll have is a small box with a keyboard, mouse and screen.. it'll be able to do word processing and spread sheets and web conferencing but the apps will reside on servers which will be tightly controlled...
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