Check Point 620 Wired Appliance: Real World Throughput and Experiences

I am considering a purchase of the Check Point 620 wired appliance. If you have used the 620, I would like to request some help:
1. What real-world throughput have you seen with all blades active? The internet speed at our site is 120 Mbps
2. What has your experience been -- good and bad? Anything notable?
Thanks!
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Making Effective Use of the Hybrid Cloud: Real-World Examples

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The Buzz from Microsoft Ignite 2015
NetApp was in full force at the recent Microsoft Ignite show in Chicago, and it was clear that NetApp's approach to hybrid cloud and Data Fabric resonated with the crowd. NetApp solutions such as NetApp Private Storage for Cloud are solving real customer problems.
Hot topics at the NetApp booth included:
OnCommand® Shift. A revolutionary technology that allows you to move virtual machines back and forth between VMware and Hyper-V environments in minutes.
Azure Site Recovery to NetApp Private Storage. Replicate on-premises SAN-based applications to NPS for disaster recovery in the Azure cloud.
Check out the following blogs for more perspectives:
Microsoft Ignite Sparks More Innovation from NetApp
ASR Now Supports NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure
Four Ways Disaster Recovery is Simplified with Storage Management Standards
Introducing OnCommand Shift
SHIFT VMs between Hypervisors
Infront Consulting + NetApp = Success
Richard Treadway
Senior Director of Cloud Marketing, NetApp
Tom Shields
Senior Manager, Cloud Service Provider Solution Marketing, NetApp
Enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud to drive agility and closely align IT resources to business needs. New or short-term projects and unexpected spikes in demand can be satisfied quickly and elastically with cloud resources, spurring more creativity and productivity while reducing the waste associated with over- or under-provisioning.
Figure 1) Cloud lets you closely align resources to demand.
Source: NetApp, 2015
While the benefits are attractive for many workloads, customer input suggests that even more can be achieved by moving beyond cloud silos and better managing data across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, with the ability to move data between clouds as needs and prices change. Hybrid cloud models are emerging where data can flow fluidly to the right location at the right time to optimize business outcomes while providing enhanced control and stewardship.
These models fall into two general categories based on data location. In the first, data moves as needed between on-premises data centers and the cloud. In the second, data is located strategically near, but not in, the cloud.
Let's look at what some customers are doing with hybrid cloud in the real world, their goals, and the outcomes.
Data in the Cloud
At NetApp, we see a variety of hybrid cloud deployments sharing data between on-premises data centers and the cloud, providing greater control and flexibility. These deployments utilize both cloud service providers (CSPs) and hyperscale public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Use Case 1: Partners with Verizon for Software as a Service Colocation and integrated Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
For financial services company BlackLine, availability, security, and compliance with financial standards is paramount. But with the company growing at 50% per year, and periodic throughput and capacity bursts of up to 20 times baseline, the company knew it couldn't sustain its business model with on-premises IT alone.
Stringent requirements often lead to innovation. BlackLine deployed its private cloud infrastructure at a Verizon colocation facility. The Verizon location gives them a data center that is purpose-built for security and compliance. It enables the company to retain full control over sensitive data while delivering the network speed and reliability it needs. The colocation facility gives Blackline access to Verizon cloud services with maximum bandwidth and minimum latency. The company currently uses Verizon Cloud for disaster recovery and backup. Verizon cloud services are built on NetApp® technology, so they work seamlessly with BlackLine's existing NetApp storage.
To learn more about BlackLine's hybrid cloud deployment, read the executive summary and technical case study, or watch this customer video.
Use Case 2: Private, Nonprofit University Eliminates Tape with Cloud Integrated Storage
A private university was just beginning its cloud initiative and wanted to eliminate tape—and offsite tape storage. The university had been using Data Domain as a backup target in its environment, but capacity and expense had become a significant issue, and it didn't provide a backup-to-cloud option.
The director of Backup turned to a NetApp SteelStore cloud-integrated storage appliance to address the university's needs. A proof of concept showed that SteelStore™ was perfect. The on-site appliance has built-in disk capacity to store the most recent backups so that the majority of restores still happen locally. Data is also replicated to AWS, providing cheap and deep storage for long-term retention. SteelStore features deduplication, compression, and encryption, so it efficiently uses both storage capacity (both in the appliance and in the cloud) and network bandwidth. Encryption keys are managed on-premises, ensuring that data in the cloud is secure.
The university is already adding a second SteelStore appliance to support another location, and—recognizing which way the wind is blowing—the director of Backup has become the director of Backup and Cloud.
Use Case 3: Consumer Finance Company Chooses Cloud ONTAP to Move Data Back On-Premises
A leading provider of online payment services needed a way to move data generated by customer applications running in AWS to its on-premises data warehouse. NetApp Cloud ONTAP® running in AWS proved to be the least expensive way to accomplish this.
Cloud ONTAP provides the full suite of NetApp enterprise data management tools for use with Amazon Elastic Block Storage, including storage efficiency, replication, and integrated data protection. Cloud ONTAP makes it simple to efficiently replicate the data from AWS to NetApp FAS storage in the company's own data centers. The company can now use existing extract, transform and load (ETL) tools for its data warehouse and run analytics on data generated in AWS.
Regular replication not only facilitates analytics, it also ensures that a copy of important data is stored on-premises, protecting data from possible cloud outages. Read the success story to learn more.
Data Near the Cloud
For many organizations, deploying data near the hyperscale public cloud is a great choice because they can retain physical control of their data while taking advantage of elastic cloud compute resources on an as-needed basis. This hybrid cloud architecture can deliver better IOPS performance than native public cloud storage services, enterprise-class data management, and flexible access to multiple public cloud providers without moving data. Read the recent white paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group, “NetApp Multi-cloud Private Storage: Take Charge of Your Cloud Data,” to learn more about this approach.
Use Case 1: Municipality Opts for Hybrid Cloud with NetApp Private Storage for AWS
The IT budgets of many local governments are stretched tight, making it difficult to keep up with the growing expectations of citizens. One small municipality found itself in this exact situation, with aging infrastructure and a data center that not only was nearing capacity, but was also located in a flood plain.
Rather than continue to invest in its own data center infrastructure, the municipality chose a hybrid cloud using NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for AWS. Because NPS stores personal, identifiable information and data that's subject to strict privacy laws, the municipality needed to retain control of its data. NPS does just that, while opening the door to better citizen services, improving availability and data protection, and saving $250,000 in taxpayer dollars. Read the success story to find out more.
Use Case 2: IT Consulting Firm Expands Business Model with NetApp Private Storage for Azure
A Japanese IT consulting firm specializing in SAP recognized the hybrid cloud as a way to expand its service offerings and grow revenue. By choosing NetApp Private Storage for Microsoft Azure, the firm can now offer a cloud service with greater flexibility and control over data versus services that store data in the cloud.
The new service is being rolled out first to support the development work of the firm's internal systems integration engineering teams, and will later provide SAP development and testing, and disaster recovery services for mid-market customers in financial services, retail, and pharmaceutical industries.
Use Case 3: Financial Services Leader Partners with NetApp for Major Cloud Initiative
In the heavily regulated financial services industry, the journey to cloud must be orchestrated to address security, data privacy, and compliance. A leading Australian company recognized that cloud would enable new business opportunities and convert capital expenditures to monthly operating costs. However, with nine million customers, the company must know exactly where its data is stored. Using native cloud storage is not an option for certain data, and regulations require that the company maintain a tertiary copy of data and retain the ability to restore data under any circumstances. The company also needed to vacate one of its disaster-recovery data centers by the end of 2014.
To address these requirements, the company opted for NetApp Private Storage for Cloud. The firm placed NetApp storage systems in two separate locations: an Equinix cloud access facility and a Global Switch colocation facility both located in Sydney. This satisfies the requirement for three copies of critical data and allows them to take advantage of AWS EC2 compute instances as needed, with the option to use Microsoft Azure or IBM SoftLayer as an alternative to AWS without migrating data. For performance, the company extended its corporate network to the two facilities.
The firm vacated the data center on schedule, a multimillion-dollar cost avoidance. Cloud services are being rolled out in three phases. In the first phase, NPS will provide disaster recovery for the company's 12,000 virtual desktops. In phase two, NPS will provide disaster recover for enterprise-wide applications. In the final phase, the company will move all enterprise applications to NPS and AWS. NPS gives the company a proven methodology for moving production workloads to the cloud, enabling it to offer new services faster. Because the on-premises storage is the same as the cloud storage, making application architecture changes will also be faster and easier than it would be with other options. Read the success story to learn more.
NetApp on NetApp: nCloud
When NetApp IT needed to provide cloud services to its internal customers, the team naturally turned to NetApp hybrid cloud solutions, with a Data Fabric joining the pieces. The result is nCloud, a self-service portal that gives NetApp employees fast access to hybrid cloud resources. nCloud is architected using NetApp Private Storage for AWS, FlexPod®, clustered Data ONTAP and other NetApp technologies. NetApp IT has documented details of its efforts to help other companies on the path to hybrid cloud. Check out the following links to lean more:
Hybrid Cloud: Changing How We Deliver IT Services [blog and video]
NetApp IT Approach to NetApp Private Storage and Amazon Web Services in Enterprise IT Environment [white paper]
NetApp Reaches New Heights with Cloud [infographic]
Cloud Decision Framework [slideshare]
Hybrid Cloud Decision Framework [infographic]
See other NetApp on NetApp resources.
Data Fabric: NetApp Services for Hybrid Cloud
As the examples in this article demonstrate, NetApp is developing solutions to help organizations of all sizes move beyond cloud silos and unlock the power of hybrid cloud. A Data Fabric enabled by NetApp helps you more easily move and manage data in and near the cloud; it's the common thread that makes the uses cases in this article possible. Read Realize the Full Potential of Cloud with the Data Fabric to learn more about the Data Fabric and the NetApp technologies that make it possible.
Richard Treadway is responsible for NetApp Hybrid Cloud solutions including SteelStore, Cloud ONTAP, NetApp Private Storage, StorageGRID Webscale, and OnCommand Insight. He has held executive roles in marketing and engineering at KnowNow, AvantGo, and BEA Systems, where he led efforts in developing the BEA WebLogic Portal.
Tom Shields leads the Cloud Service Provider Solution Marketing group at NetApp, working with alliance partners and open source communities to design integrated solution stacks for CSPs. Tom designed and launched the marketing elements of the storage industry's first Cloud Service Provider Partner Program—growing it to 275 partners with a portfolio of more than 400 NetApp-based services.
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Dave:
"David Scarani" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3ecfc046$[email protected]..
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I was looking for some real world "Best Practices" of deploying J2EEapplications
into a Production Weblogic Environment.
We are new at deploying applications to J2EE application servers and arecurrently
debating 2 methods.
1) Store all configuration (application as well as Domain configuration)in properties
files and Use Ant to rebuild the domain everytime the application isdeployed.
I am just a WLS engineer, not a customer, so my opinions have in some
regards little relative weight. However I think you'll get more mileage out
of the fact that once you have created your config.xml, checking it into src
control, versioning it. I would imagine that application changes are more
frequent than server/domain configuration so it seems a little heavy weight
to regenerate the entire configuration everytime an application is
deployed/redeployed. Either way you should check out the wlconfig ant task.
Cheers
mbg
2) Have a production domain built one time, configured as required andalways
up and available, then use Ant to deploy only the J2EE application intothe existing,
running production domain.
I would be interested in hearing how people are doing this in theirproduction
environments and any pros and cons of one way over the other.
Thanks.
Dave Scarani

RAID test on 8-core with real world tasks gives 9% gain?

Here are my results from testing the software RAID set up on my new (July 2009) Mac Pro. As you will see, although my 8-core (Octo) tested twice as fast as my new (March 2009) MacBook 2.4 GHz, the software RAID set up only gave me a 9% increase at best.
Specs:
Mac Pro 2x 2.26 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, 4x 1TB 7200 Apple Drives.
MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Both running OS X 10.5.7
Canon Vixia HG20 HD video camera shooting in 1440 x 1080 resolution at “XP+” AVCHD format, 16:9 (wonderful camera)
The tests. (These are close to my real world “work flow” jobs that I would have to wait on when using my G5.)
Test A: import 5:00 of video into iMovie at 960x540 with thumbnails
Test B: render and export with Sepia applied to MPEG-4 at 960x540 (a 140 MB file) in iMovie
Test C: in QuickTime resize this MPEG-4 file to iPod size .m4v at 640x360 resolution
Results:
Control: MacBook as shipped
Test A: 4:16 (four minutes, sixteen seconds)
Test B: 13:28
Test C: 4:21
Control: Mac Pro as shipped (no RAID)
Test A: 1:50
Test B: 7:14
Test C: 2:22
Mac Pro config 1
RAID 0 (no RAID on the boot drive, three 1TB drives striped)
Test A: 1:44
Test B: 7:02
Test C: 2:23
Mac Pro config 2
RAID 10 (drives 1 and 2 mirrored, drives 3 and 4 mirrored, then both mirrors striped)
Test A: 1:40
Test B: 7:09
Test C: 2:23
My question: Why am I not seeing an increase in speed on these tasks? Any ideas?
David
Notes:
I took this to the Apple store and they were expecting 30 to 50 per cent increase with the software RAID. They don’t know why I didn’t see it on my tests.
I am using iMovie and QuickTime because I just got the Adobe CS4 and ran out of cash. And it is fine for my live music videos. Soon I will get Final Cut Studio.
I set up the RAID with Disk Utility without trouble. (It crashed once but reopened and set up just fine.) If I check back it shows the RAID set up working.
Activity Monitor reported “disk activity” peaks at about 8 MB/sec on both QuickTime and iMovie tasks. The CPU number (percent?) on QT was 470 (5 cores involved?) and iMovie was 294 (3 cores involved?).
Console reported the same error for iMovie and QT:
7/27/09 11:05:35 AM iMovie[1715] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): Symbol not found: _keymgr_get_per_threaddata
Referenced from: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

The memory controllers, one for each cpu, means that you need at least 2 x 2GB on each bank. If that is how Apple set it up, that is minimal and the only thing I would do now with RAM is add another 2 x 2GB. That's all. And get you into triple channel bandwidth.
It could be the make and model of your hard drives. If they are seagate then more info would help. And not all drives are equal when it comes to RAID.
Are you new to RAID or something you've been doing? seems you had enough to build 0+1 and do some testing. Though not pleased, even if it works now, that it didn't take the one time.
Drives - and RAIDs - improve over the first week or two - which, before commiting good data to them - is the best time to torture, run them ragged, use Speedtools to break them in, loosen up the heads, scan for media errors, and run ZoneBench (and with 1TB, partition each drive into 1/4ths).
If Drive A is not identical to B, then they may deal with an array even worse. And no two drives are purly identical, some vary more than others, and some are best used in hardware RAID controller environments.
Memory: buying in groups of three. okay. But then adding 4 x 4GB? So bank A with 4 x 2GB and B with twice as much memory. On Mac Pro, 4 DIMMs on a bank you get 70% bandwidth, it drops down from tri-channel to dual-channel mode.
I studied how to build or put together a PC for over six months, but then learned more in the month (or two) after I bought all the parts, found what didn't work, learned my own short-comings, and ended up building TWO - one for testing, other for backup system. And three motherboards (the best 'rated' also had more trouble with BIOS and fans, the cheap one was great, the Intel board that reviewers didn't seem to "gork" actually has been the best and easiest to use and update BIOS). Hands on wins 3:1 versus trying to learn by reading for me, hands-on is what I need to learn. Or take car or sailboat out for drive, spin, see how it fares in rough weather.
I buy an Apple system bare bones, stock, or less, then do all the upgrades on my own, when I can afford to, gradually over months, year.
Each cpu needs to be fed. So they each need at least 3 x 1GB RAM. And they need raw data fed to RAM and cpu from disk drives. And your mix of programs will each behave differently. Which is why you see Barefeats test with Pro Apps, CINEBENCH, and other apps or tools.
What did you read or do in the past that led you to think you need RAID setup, and for how it would affect performance?
Photoshop Guides to Performance:
http://homepage.mac.com/boots911/.Public/PhotoshopAccelerationBasics2.4W.pdf
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401089.html
http://www.macgurus.com/guides/storageaccelguide.php
4-core vs 8-core
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal08.html
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal03.html

EJB 3.0 in a real world open source project. Great for coding reference!

If you are interested in seeing EJB 3.0 implemented in a real world project (not just examples) or if you are interested in learning how to use them I suggest you to take a look a the open source project Overactive Logistics.
It has been written totally using EJB 3.0 (session and entity beans) I found it very helpful in solving several technical situations I was facing.
You can get more information at:
http://overactive.sourceforge.net

Thanks for the ponter, I will check it out.
hth,
Sean

Real World Item Level Permission Performance?

I am considering implementing item level permission on a list we use. I've seen all the articles online cautioning not to do this with lists of more than 1000 items, but the articles seem to have little detailed information about the actual impact and what
causes the performance issues. Additionally, they seem to refer to document libraries more than lists. I'd like some feedback about what might occur if we were to use item level security in our situation.
Our situation is this: list of current ~700 items in a sharepoint list. Expected to grow around 700 items per year. The list has about 75 fields on it. We have 8 active-directory groups that have access to the list, based upon company department. Each
item in the list can apply to one or more departments. The groups represent around 100-150 different unique users.
We would like to use item level security to be set via workflow, to enable particular groups to access the item based upon their group membership. For example, if the list item is for the HR department, then the HR group has access. If the item is for IT,
then the IT group has access (and HR wouldn't).
That's it. There would be no nesting of items with multiple permission levels, no use of user-level ACLs on the items, etc.
Thoughts about this configuration and expected performance issues? Thanks for any feedback!

Just an update for anyone who finds this thread:
I converted our data into a test SharePoint list with 1500 rows. I then enabled full item-level security, with restrictions to hide data not created by the person.
I then set individual permissions for each item that included 2-3 AD groups with different permissions--contribute, full ownership, etc, and 2-3 individuals with varying permissions. The individuals represented around 50 total people.
After the permissions were set I then did a comparison of loading individual views and the full data set in Standard and Datasheet views, for both myself as an administrator with full list access and with several of the individuals who only had access to
their designated items--typically 75-100 of the total list.
The results were that I found no discernable difference in system performance from the user interface level while loading list views after the item level security was configured in this way. I understand this will vary based up
hardware configuration and exact permission configuration, but in our situation the impact of item level security on a list of 1500 items had very little, if any, negative performance impact. Note that I didn't check performance at the database server level,
but I'm assuming the impact there was minimal since the front-end user experience was unaffected.
I expect we'll put this solution into place and if we do I'll update this post when we have additional real-world usage information.

HR Interfaces - Real World Scenarios - Please help !

Hello Folks,
I would appreciate it if someone could give examples of real world scenarios in which XI has been used for HCM (HR) Interfaces. Both from SAP to External as well as Legacy systems. I am not looking so much for technical explanation but more of a high level description of systems involved, the types of data sent/received (payroll master etc). Really looking for real world examples.
For example: Payroll master from SAP HCM to Legacy (?) using so and so idoc etc.
If you all gurus can help, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.

Hi,
Check out this thread
HR Implementation in XI landscape
Thanks,
Prakash

V210 Sol 10 kernel crash w/check point

- SF V210
- fresh install Solaris 10 (01/06)
- cluster 01/18/06
- only bge0 primary interface
- fresh install check point express (sol 10 vsn)
- reboot
- crash/dump/reboot/crash/dump/reboot...
- unable to boot single user
- Reinstalled (same)
- installed addt't Sun PCI interface 100mbs
- only hme0 primary interface
- fresh install check point express
- reboot
- life is good - no crash
REAL easy to duplicate - happens every install
looks like check point doesn't play nicely with bge driver
- have confirmed with check point support for solaris 10
- they have tested SOL10 (01/06) on ultra 5
unsure if Sun bug or Check Point bug?
Know CP is messing with network stack - but V210/V240
are PERFECT firewall boxes with 4 interfaces!!
Hope somebody finds important enough to find fix.

Installed 10_Recommended patch cluster 3/16/06 over weekend, which includes patch 118822-30.
Still crashes - same problem.
Check Point claims reverting to 118822-20 works. Can't confirm - I hate going 'backwards' with patches.
Current Sun Bug ID 6401218 is supposed to address this, but I haven't seen any fixes yet. Would think fix can't be far off if bug report exists from Check Point.
I have had success installing a PCI Quad Gigaswift (ce) card in machine until Sun has bug fix. No crash, since FW isn't pushing anything on the stack for bge driver.

Java ... and the real world

Good Day,
I'm new at JAVA language, I'm basicly a C++ programmer, but I wanted to get inside the java world and know what is it all about, I have the motivation to make it my 1st lang.
But, there is a question, is it used widely like the other old and new languages, what makes it a better choice to develope with, what is the advantages I mean ??!!
is it ready for a real huge application from the real world??
give me an example
thanks in advance

Don't hold your breath ...by that I mean it will be
better in some ways and the same in most ways.
My point is that the future of computing, its
application and its growth lies in network and
inter-network applications, not in desktop and PC
stand-alone applications.I don't know if i agree (that desktop apps aren't going to be 'the area' in the future)... just about everybody uses computers nowadays, with the vast majority being home desktop users. The desktop app market is set up in such a way that it cannot reach saturation, as 'everyone' (i.e. the majority of users) always want the upgrades... Norton Antivirus 2004 anyone?
Basically, I agree with you that Java is not a player in this market, and systems integration is (and will continue to be) a huge growth area. Java should play a central role in this, due in part to its platform independence. Only problem is, in the future if the only programming jobs are bolting together components and existing systems, there will be even less coder jobs than today. So you could say, whilst the future of computing is network and inter-network apps, therein lies our doom...

SAP Screen Personas Performance in the real world

I've read the blogs, Personas are amazing the user does much less clicking, etc, but in the real world is anyone using this in production, for a widescale deployment?
I've tried this in my system and although it's cute, and at first people have fun clearing all the fields they never used, I felt the performance was severely lacking, and worst of all is that it inherits all the problems of SAP GUI for HTML, specfically bad formating. I don't use SAP GUI for HTML because some transactions don't work well in it, namely FBCJ, CV01N, etc. Do you feel this problem is fixed by Personas?
It's the same as NWBC, awesome, great, but when I try to use it in production... the consistency just isn't there. I need a reliable GUI and both NWBC and Personas crash one too many times.
Am I seeing this wrong? Are you succesfully using this in production?
Best regards

If you compare Personas to native SAPgui in unaltered transactions, then for sure Personas comes off worse. Its interface into the backend system is the HTMLgui, which isn't as responsive as a native SAPgui, and then it adds another layer on top. That layer is getting more efficient all the time, but still in most cases Personas is a little slower than HTMLgui.
But that's missing the point of Personas. Look at this blog - Simplifying a multi-screen transaction with Personas. Here I simplify a transaction that requires a user to do a lot of clicking around to find all the information they need. This can take 30-60 seconds to get to everything. My Personas flavour takes a little while to render - maybe 5-6 seconds. That feels a little sluggish at first sight, until you realise it has everything the user needs in one screen with not further clicking or scrolling. Slow to render? Yes. Slower that the equivalent in SAPgui? Absolutely not. Being conservative, this saves our users 20-25 seconds each time they run the transaction. Automation is the key.
Yes we are running this in production, and our users love it. Performance is not an issue for us or them. We have only 80-90 users using this live at the moment. There are customers with 10x that many Personas live in production.
Steve.

Finding the XYZ real world coordinates of the Kinect for Windows V2

Hi Everyone;
I am new to Kinect development and this might be sort of a basic question but I searched online and still confused about the matter.
So I have a depth image that I obtained from the Kinect for windows V2 and through some algorithm that I developed on MATLAB, I was able to output the Z distance in mm.
So now I want to have the X,Y real world coordinates as well.
So to do that I am using the following equations that I found for the old system:
x_world = (x_screen - c_x) * B/f_x;
y_world = (y_screen - c_y) * B/f_y;
where x_screen is the midpoint of the IR camera ( I am using the IR stream=512/2=256) and the y_screen (424/2=412)
B is my distance in Zmm
F_x and F_y is the focal length of the lens in x n y direction that I obtained through my own calibration.
So am I doing it correctly?
Is there any way I can use to double check the results I am getting?
Thanks;
Ali

You can use the coordinate mapper as this will take into account the camera intrinsics:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.kinect.kinect.icoordinatemapper.mapdepthpointstocameraspace.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowspreview.kinect.coordinatemapper.mapdepthframetocameraspace.aspx
Carmine Sirignano - MSFT

Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise real world usage (for 7 and 8 too)

Hi Gang,I've been given a small assignment for potential Windows 10 deployment (sadly). They want a comparison of Windows 10 Pro against Enterprise.Obviously I can read tables and see that feature X such as DirectAccess is only available in Enterprise than Pro and mention several other features and pricing and this and that.But what does this really mean in the real world? Do many of the companies make use of the features available in Windows 10 (not even 10 to be honest, 7 onward really) or is it simply we can afford it so get?Of course, some features have their obvious benefits (or necessity) from Pro onward editions simply for domain joining, bitlocker and so on but for those on 7 or 8 even that have or stopped using certain features?Looking to deploy VMs to test several of these features.Thanks for reading my topic in advance,...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

this is from a blog and I checked it out it is in fact true. May be old news but I thought I would share.http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001116.htmlA couple of days ago I discussed a number of privacy and other concerns with Microsoft's new Windows 10, made available as a free upgrade for many existing MS users:Windows 10: A Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse:http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001115.htmlThe situation has only been getting worse since then. For example, it's been noted that the Win10 setup sequence is rigged to try fool users into switching to an MS browser, irrespective of their browser settings before they started the upgrade:Mozilla isn’t happy with Microsoft for changing how users change the default web browser in Windows 10:...

R.A.C. - real world solutions&numbers

Does anyone know/have some real world examples, implementations
of Real Application Clusters? I need the exact numbers -
throughput increase, etc. Preferably from some "Oracle
independant" firm :-).
I looked in oracle.com, but couldn't find real numbers anywhere...
TIA

Hello.
I4m working on that right now. I4m doing load tests with a Linux
RAC and my web sites. Right now, I can tell you that I4m very
pleased with the load balancing of the RAC. I4m increasing the
loads to stress the thing...
I4m using my apaches servers (not IAS) with mod_plsql and a very
big aplication in the database more a very huge site (web
commerce) using php to connect to the RAC.
Very good results until now.
I don4t work on Oracle...

Real-world experience with Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5+ and Powershell 4?

The support-ability matrix for Exchange (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728623(v=exchg.150).aspx) says Exchange
2010 SP3 RU5+ and Powershell 4 are compatible. But, there is very little actual discussion about how well that works.
I use Powershell extensively for mission critical and somewhat complex processes, with Exchange 2010 on 2008 R2 and AD access/reads/updates.
Can I get a summary of the caveats and benefits from someone who has actually done this in a
real-world/production scenario (more than one server, managing from a separate non-Exchange server), and who has scripting experience with this configuration?
Also, how has this affected EMC operations?
As always thank you in advance!

I believe the matrix states that its supported to install Exchange into an environment where __ version of WMF is present. Exchange 2010, launched from a Win 2012 server, reports version 2.0 when you call $host. For example, calling the ActiveDirectory
module from EMS on an Win 2012 server (ps 3.0) fails.
I'll double check the extent of this scenario and get back to you.
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First of many Server 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration - Real World Advice

Hey everyone,
Performing my first legacy server migration and just looking for some good "real-world" pointers on how to approach it. Since I am planning on seeing a lot of these projects in the next year or so, I was wondering who is willing to share some approaches,
tools, experiences, etc.
I would especially like to know how everyone handles application compatibility!
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Hello,
please provide more details about the machines to migrate.
Is this about a domain or workgroup?
Which client OS run in the network?
What about trusts to other domains?
Applications you have to test each on the new OS versions and also have to contact the vendors BEFORE if that is supported.
If old hardware is used drivers must be checked if they exist for the new versions.
Licensing is a question, for example Remote Desktop has changed with RD CALs, they must be bought new.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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ESATA 6g, USB 3 on PCI, real world

I am looking to buy a
CalDigit FASTA-6GU3
2 Port USB 3.0 & eSATA 6Gb/s Host Adapter
to put in my 2008 Mac Pro PCI slot to run an external Blu-Ray writer and hard drive enclosure off the eSATA ports.
Looking for info on what real-world Gps/Mbps the Mac Pro PCI slot can actually handle -- it is great if the card is 6Gbps eSATA & 5Gbps USB3.0 -- but the bottleneck is what the PCI bus can move (also limited by what the hadrdrive and writer can actually read/write).
I read on the reviews that the Mac Pro PCI bus can only perform tops 500Mbps (slightly above Firewire 400Mbps).
I also read the actual PCI card performance was limited to 250MBps due to its PLX chip design.
As USB2.0 is based on 480Mbps -- I have to wonder what all these numbers mean.
Can anyone put this into layman's perspective -- why put a 6Gps eSATA and USB 3.0 card in a PCI slot that is limited to 250Mbps?

Bytes will come to byte you if you think they are bits.
Kilobytes was the same issue. Or gigabits and bytes.
10 bits to a byte basically. sometimes 8 bits if there is no check bit.
Wikipedia is your friend, more so than Google. And there are dictionaries online of tech terms.
Some poeple come here talking about their MacPro except that they don't know what a 65lbs Mac is and my guess is there are a dozen notebook users asking.
The Sonnet E4P ~$250 w/ 4 x eSATA ports is nice for adding direct connect to SATA devices, more than enough bandwidth.
Your Mac has those four internal SATA2 drive bays. Those are all on a single shared controller bus, so while in theory you can get 275MB/sec max from each, there also is NOT full 1GB let alone 1.2 (1200MB/sec) but rather 750MB/sec - more than enough for most disk drives still. Only when you got to SSDs that it was more apparent.
Here is what your Mac's Serial ATA drives and bus are offering in bandwidth performance, sortof.
180MB/sec is about the max of 4TB enterprise drive, or WD 10K latest VelocityRaptors.
SATA2 SSD was about 275MB/sec also, and 450-500/550 (max, writes are often less with SSDs, reads tend to do very well, but it is the very high I/O's per second that they shine, along with lowest response time in seeks being 1/1000th - instead of being 4-12 milliseconds you are into less than 1.0 nanoseconds.
Geeks were happy with a Base2 numbering - binary 1's and 0's and base16 whereas Apple and others now wanted to change one gigabyte from being binary 1024MB and turn it into 1000MBs. The dumbing down of math, specs, and the i-ification of consumer devices. iDevice, iOS and consumers that never liked those 1024 binary and hex based numbering system.

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