I recently became a Twit on Twitter, and have been tweeting about my IT experiences with several new connections. In doing so, I came across a tweet about a contest to win some free training, specifically VMware View 5 Essentials from @TrainSignal – sweet! Below is a screen capture of the tweet: A jump over to the link …
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The catch phrase of the last few years has been “The Cloud”. What REALLY is the cloud? By the consumer’s definition it is when I buy a video on Amazon and magically it is available to me anywhere I go. The video is then up in the ambiguous cloud. I don’t know what the hardware or software is, or even if it the data …
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Yeah I said it: “IDS just brought Sexy Back!” For a refresh a recent customer sought to finally step into the Virtual Limelight. This particular customer, whose vertical is in the medical industry; purchased four Cisco Chassis and eleven B200 blades. Alongside the Cisco server they purchased an EMC VNX 5500 OE Unified Array with two Cisco MDS 9148 FC switches. Our plan …
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How does your datacenter, server rack or switch rack look? Like a rats nest? If you had a power problem how long would it take you to track down the bad power cord? Additionally how much time would you waste figuring out if it was a bad network cable, NIC, or switch port? Yes, it can be a daunting task to …
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We talk about a lot of paradigm shifts in IT. The shift to a converged network, the shift to virtualization, etc. There is a more important shift happening however, that we aren’t talking nearly enough about. The absolutely necessary shift in the people who make up our IT work force. The IT field as a …
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