In a bid to improve efficiency and considerably reduce costs, CIOs are now looking into virtualising their data centres as a viable option. However, only 28% so far have incorporated virtualisation into their IT structure as security seems to be of their primary concern.

Based on the successful run of the Data Centre series for the last 5 years, this year Data Centre Summit 2010 will look at addressing key concerns CIOs and IT professionals are facing and equipping them with the knowledge to get the necessary buy-in from their top management in investing into a virtualised dynamic data centre.

Get the program details here: http://dcs-sg.questexevents.net/program

Becoming ISO9000 certified enables us to increase our level of service to our clients and positions us for growth in the datacenter and hosting service industry.

As of this time, PLDT MGO equipment failure in Makati has been identified as the cause. No restoration time has been given. We will post more info on our website as we get more details.

As of 4:50pm the link went back up. BNS is currently monitoring the line. Thanks to all our clients for the feedbacks.

Information security

With Internet use becoming a more popular activity among Filipinos today, we recognize the need to have a secure environment that will protect the corporate and user environment. In this regard, DigitalFilipino Club and Posh Marketing Services presents the InfoSec Conference 2010 that gathers top practitioners who will share best practices on Information and Technology security.

Speakers from global enterprises, technology leaders, certified security professionals and law enforcers will identify risks, threats and vulnerabilities your companies are facing today. Expect speakers to provide preventions and solutions to protect your business.
Date: August 25, 2010 Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Makati City

To learn how to reduce the spam score of emails being sent out, you need to avoid things that spammers generally use in their emails. This site offers valuable ideas: http://help.campaignmonitor.com/topic.aspx?t=104

The summary of things to lower spam score:

1. Avoid using words like “Click below”, “Risk free” , “To be remove, reply via email”
2. Avoide using HTML format
3. Excessive capitalization (Yelling)
4. Avoid using toll free number
5. Avoid making Offers, discounts, promotions, $$$,
6. Do use SPF (Sender Provider Format) on your email domain
7. Dont include a disclaimer that your email is NOT spam.
8. Use open and conversational language

To check out your email before you send them out:

http://www.contactology.com/check_mqs.php

We are actively spending resources on both of these to increase performance and connectivity for users such as yourself. In addition, we do a have workaround that will allow you to gain better performance from the major CDN providers. While the specifics vary depending on your DNS server, the short description is that we will need to configure your DNS server to not send certain requests to OpenDNS directly. Doing so will not affect your Content or Security filtering as these zones are exclusively used for Geo location and content distribution. The zones are as follows:

akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.com

If you would like instructions on how to do this for your DNS server, please let me know and I’d be happy to provide those for you. We’ll be notifing all of our customers as we press forward on this and continue to deliver better service optimized for all of our users globally.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

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***Solution for Windows DNS***
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Open the DNS Server management console and follow these steps:

1. Left click on the DNS server you wish to manage
2. In the right hand pane, double click Forwarders
3. Add a zone that you do not wish to forward to OpenDNS by clicking the New button

4. Set the Forwarders to either your ISP or another DNS server that does not forward to OpenDNS.

5. Click Apply

You’ll want to repeat those steps for each zone listed below:

akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.com

For the domains listed above, try using 202.12.27.33 and 199.7.83.42

In addition to the session content you’ll have ample opportunities to network with your peers in the community and technical and industry experts including local and international Microsoft Most Valued Professionals and Southeast Asia’s top Certified Partners.

Don’t miss out on Southeast Asia’s biggest SharePoint event of the year! Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, October 26 and 27 2010. Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount. Please note the person arranging the Group Booking (Group Leader) is responsible for all credit card fees and agenda updates for all people registered in the group. Group members cannot individually update their agendas.

Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register. Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00.
To register: http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=877870

Please email us your comments and feedbacks about this system. Thanks!

Guests: International Speaker Ms Janette Toral of digitalfilipino.com and SEO Expert Mr. Gary Viray (Search Opt Media). See you there! -Jonathan Jay Daoana (GCF Dagupan Masters Commission)

BNS has limited number of tickets available. Kindly contact Marichu. For more details, interested Parties may wish to visit : http://www.thesocialthinkers.com/northern-luzon-e-commerce-conference.html

The bandwidth on our 1 gbps server hit maximum during the height of the inauguration.