OSISoft PI
Windows XP End of Life is quickly approaching
Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th of this year. It is funny that I was just reminded of this impending deadline by a OSIsoft Technical Support Bulletin that I received in my email while I am working with a client to replace an old Windows 2000 box running a PI interface. There are…
Read MoreNew vCampus Beta Goodies! AF 2014 with Abacus analytics and DataLink 2014 with Event Frames
I just received the email from vCampus with a bunch of new goodies! The most exciting is the beta release of AF 2014 with the Abacus data analytics built in. Think Performance Equations for AF, only much much better. We got to play with an early alpha at vCampus 2012 and everyone has been eagerly…
Read MorePI in the Sky on a new Azure VM
At the UC this year, the OSIsoft folks gave a presentation about PI in the Sky or PI in the cloud (UC video here). Microsoft just publicly released some of the new capabilities discussed at the UC to Windows Azure and I wanted to give it a try. I decided to see how easy it…
Read MoreUpgrading OSIsoft vCampus development environment to newly released Microsoft products
I’ve spent the last few evenings running Windows Server 2008 R2 upgrades to Windows Server 2012. So far, things have gone relatively smoothly. I’ve upgraded my SQL Server, AF Server, and SharePoint 2010 Server to the new OS with no issues. I have, of course, taken snapshots of each VM prior to making any changes…
Read MoreConfiguring your vCampus environment. Every PI Geek needs a Sandbox. (Part 1)
You need a sandbox To become good at building reliable solutions you have to be really good a breaking things. You must have a sandbox that allows you to play, experiment, and develop an intuitive sense of how things work. Over the years, I have literally spent thousands of hours in sandbox environments making a…
Read MoreInstalling PI Server 2012 RC0 on Windows 2008 R2 Core
It’s always a good day when you check the tech support page at http://techsupport.osisoft.com and see something new that you are interested in. I downloaded the PI Server 2012 Release Candidate yesterday and decided to setup a test VM so that I could play with it. I’m working on a new blog post about my…
Read MorePI in the Cloud – aka – “PI in the Sky”
I attended the UC session discussing “The Cloud” and OSIsoft’s mobile efforts. Their engineers have playfully dubbed this “PI in the Sky”. One of the refreshing things about the UC and the overall culture of OSIsoft and their Users Conference philosophy, you see presentations by the very engineers who are building the products. You aren’t…
Read MorePictures from the OSIsoft UC 2010
Here are some pictures that I took of the VEEDIMS technology demo at last year’s user conference. They have developed the technology that allows them to send network signals and power over the same cable which greatly reduces wiring complexity. You simply plug the modules together and power and data flow. Video…
Read MoreMore on Stuxnet and warnings about the coming worms that will be using the techniques pioneered by the worm
I am posting a few more interesting items on Stuxnet. In addition to the information that I posted yesterday, here are a few more facts. Symantec reports that 60% of the infections have occurred in Iran Fewer than 2% of the infections have occurred in the United States The developers created fake device drivers that were…
Read MoreStuxnet virus – fascinating and scary
Today seems to be a cyber security day. I spent some time this morning talking to Brian Owen of OSIsoft about PI architectures and NERC CIP compliance. Later I was looking at Slashdot which eventually led to an interesting blog post by Symantec regarding the Stuxnet virus. There are several interesting aspects to this virus… The virus uses…
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