Monthly Archives: July 2014

Google partners with Udacity to teach about Android app development

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New Google Android App Development Strategy

Udacity is an online learning site offering tech industry related courses.  What’s so special about Udacity’s courses, is that they are developed in collaboration with some of the top companies in the software world.  Students benefit directly from the experience of companies like Google, Facebook, and Salesforce.  The model seems to be a very worthwhile one and the price is bad either.  Sign up for a course just like you would at any university with the option to work at your own pace.  It’s definitely worth the money for those who would like to change careers or have realized that education can really make a difference in your life.  Visit the Udacity site to learn more about them.

Originally posted by Justin Herrick at TalkAndroid.com

http://www.talkandroid.com/213570-google-partners-with-udacity-to-teach-about-android-app-development/

Clusters for Service Consolidation

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Using Microsoft Cluster Services to Consolidate Your Infrastructure

As I mentioned in a previous post, Failover Clustering Overview | Windows Server 2008 R2, the idea of using Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) to host multiple services seemed quite viable as HA solution.  For many companies that use Microsoft server products as the foundation of their infrastructure, there could be great benefit in consolidating their services into clusters.  The benefits could include ease of upgrade and patching using the rolling upgrade method, as well as ability to scale the solution as the business grows.  Services such as DHCP, Exchange, SQL Server, and File Services could be consolidated into one or multiple clusters.  Architected with disaster recovery in mind, services could be failed over to a cluster in another site.  That could help to knock out two problems with one solution.  To give you an idea of what I am talking about, please review this TechNet article – How A Cluster Server Works.  The article is a little dated but the information is so good that I had to add it to the mix.  Please let me know what you think, and if you have any questions.  I would be happy to share my thoughts.

How A Cluster Server Works