Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

Karri Alexion-Tiernan posted an article over on the Windows Blog regarding the upcoming software release of Windows Thin PC due out this July. Microsoft Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is part of the company’s strategy with respect to Desktop Virtualization. You can read the entire post on the Windows Team Blog at Windows Thin PC RTMs! For more information you can visit the WinTPC site .

There is a newly posted article over on the ComputerWorld website that indicates that Windows 7 will top out at a 41% share, less than half XP's peak of just about 84%. This is based on current roll outs of the Windows 7 operating system and the speculated release date of Windows 8 next year. Other mitigating factors also include the lag of the Windows Vista release and its unpopularity which allowed Windows XP to reign supreme for such a long time. The entire article “Windows forecast shows XP's one-of-a-kind dominance” can be found on the ComputerWorld website

Early April, Corp-Corp conducted a survey among Indian IT professionals. More than 1000 professionals responded to this survey. The results show m ore than half of the Indian IT professionals are planning to return to India . Survey Highlights Here are a few quick insights from the survey: 50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to India soon. 6.4% of them have already returned to India and 43% do not have plan to return. The survey participants includes permanent residents, citizens and Visa holders. The survey results shows 69% of visa holders and 57% permanent residents or citizens are intend to return. To read the entire story please see Over half of Indian IT professionals may return to India – Survey

VMware has acquired social communications platform Socialcast. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. VMware has been on a bit of an acquisition spree of late, recently buying Shavlik Technologies, and SlideRocket. Please see Leena Rao’s complete story at TechCrunch - VMware Acquires Enterprise Microblogging Platform Socialcast

This year I have two main goals for myself and one stretch goal. I decided for 2011 that I was going to obtain my Microsoft Virtualization Certification and my Cisco CCNA. My stretch goal for 2011 was to also work towards a certification on WMWare. I am a little farther behind the curve than I wanted to be for the year (I was hoping to have a couple of the Microsoft Virtualization Certification exams out of the way already) but I have been busy with several projects at work and saving the 4th of July celebration in my hometown for the second year in a row. With that work completed, both the project at work and the one in Wallingford, I am going to get back on track over the summer. (Admittedly, I may have to drop my certification on WMWare stretch goal for 2011 and defer it to 2012 but we’ll see how it goes). In the meantime I am going to be looking at the Microsoft Server Virtualization certification track as well as the Desktop Virtualization certification track.  Thes...

Hi Gang, Really quickly this AM - I saw a posting over on LinkedIn from Shon Harris - Owner and President of Logical Security where she indicated that she is providing 25 hours of free CEH on-line training. I am presently studying for this certification myself so I am certain it will be quite helpful for me to review this from the master herself and I wanted to pass along the information. Directly from her posting: Free On-Line CEH Course – Over 25 Hours Long I am providing 25 hours of free CEH on-line training. The video modules are outlined below and can be found at www.logicalsecurity.com/resources/resources_videos.html Hope you find them useful! 1. Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing 2. Footprinting and Reconnaissance 3. TCP/IP Basics and Scanning 4. Enumeration and Verification 5. Hacking and Defending Wireless/Modems 6. Hacking and Defending Web Servers 7. Hacking and Defending Web Applications 8. Sniffers and Session Hijacking 9. Hacking and Defending Windows Systems 10. Hac...

Andy's Tech Experiments Blog has an excellent video presentation covering an experiment he performed where he which upgraded through every major version of Windows using a virtual machine install. Along with the video installation he has his blog post that offers additional information and details that he did not include within the presentation. Below is the video and his blog post can be found at Andy's Tech Experiments Blog under Chain of fools : Upgrading through every version of Windows