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19/05/2016

Time to change your LinkedIn password, the more complex the better. Remember never reuse your banking passwords for other websites.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/linkedin-breach-australian-bank-accounts-emails-may-have-been-exposed-20160519-goyoa5.html

Cyber security experts have warned Australian bank and email accounts could have been exposed in a 2012 LinkedIn security breach now believed to have affected more than 100 million people.

12/05/2016

Amazing number of Australians fall for tech support scam.
Have a look at the massive number of people still falling for these scams, I have even had one of these calls myself, has anyone else?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/20/australian_fraud_data/

And a million suffer credit card fraud in a PCI-D-MESS-MESS!

05/05/2016

Awesome news for those waiting on NBN Satellite for Internet
The first Satellite is up and now operational.
See all the details here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/nbn_launches_satellite_broadband_services/

Sky Muster 1 gets ministerial button press for symmetrical 25Mbps services

04/05/2016

Android User Warning

New malware for Android devices - targeting users of mobile banking Apps in Australia.
I have noticed this article warning users about fake Adobe updates on Android devices
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/consumer-security/malware-hijacks-big-four-australian-banks-apps-steals-twofactor-sms-codes-20160309-gnf528.html

If your phone is infected, your legitimate bank app will send your details to criminals, who can also intercept your SMS messages without you knowing to get around bank security.

03/05/2016

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03/05/2016

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03/05/2016

Need a massive amount of storage? Storage in the cloud not going to cut it!
18Apr2016


Having worked with a number of local media clients recently, it’s apparent that cloud storage for local video production isn't the way to go. For a while now we had been thinking about a reliable, comparatively inexpensive storage platform that can hold hundreds of terabytes.

Chassis, Motherboard, CPU and RAM
First up we needed a chassis that can hold lots of 3.5” hard drives. One of the best is from 45 Drives (www.45drives.com) These chassis can be loaded with the dual power supplies and fitted out with a motherboard from Supermicro, a great base to start from. Add a CPU and as much RAM as you can fit.

Drive Controllers
Next up we need some reliable SATA/SAS host Bus Adaptors. We prefer products by LSI. We went ahead and ordered 3 X SAS 9201-16i and by using SAS to Sata break out cables, we directly connected to the 45 sata drives fitted in the chassis. So the important thing about these cards, is that they are not Raid cards, they just pass each drive through to the operating system.

Software
Now comes the software. Either FreeNAS or Windows Server 2012 are great options. From experience here's where we differ; it’s better to configure the drives as mirrors not raid 5. So this means quite a few mirrors within Windows Server 2012 or FreeNAS. You can have much higher capacities if you use RAID 5 over a mirror, but the rebuild times and data access times are much slower.

Disk Drives
For reliability we prefer the WD Red Series, however the Hitachi drives are also great value. We went ahead and ordered 50 x 4TB. (This gives us one hot spare, and 5 drives spare in the cupboard) Now 22 arrays are a lot to manage, so I striped these with a raid 0, providing one large 88TB drive.

Network Interface
Add a pair of 10G Ethernet interface cards to take full advantage of the system; the speeds are just blazingly fast!

Conclusion
We now have a super-fast, very large storage space, with totally redundant systems; redundant power supply, redundant drive array, and if cabled correctly redundant host bus adapters. Given the cost saving of this system over say an IBM or HP array, I think using mirrored drives makes sense with the speed, rebuild times and management simplicity.

A system like this costs well under AUD$50,000 and is excellent value given the cost and speed of cloud storage. It makes great sense for security conscious law or accountancy firms and is a must for anyone producing the latest HD or UHD video and multimedia content.

Call Ian on 1300 019 624 or email [email protected] for more information about a high speed, highly reliable storage system for your business.

The most customizable, affordable, large storage solution on the planet.