The Two Sides of the Problem Coin
IT professionals are in the business of solving problems. If a network is too slow we make it faster. If an application is unreliable we increase its stability. These are the types of technical...
View ArticleBudgets Are Not Solutions
“We do not have the budget for that.” I hear this a lot in my role as a pre-sales solutions architect. I have no problem with this statement being made. I might be pre-sales, but the price of the...
View ArticleWhat To Do Before You Get a Job In IT
Occasionally I am asked by someone what should they, or possibly their child, do to get a job in the IT industry. The question is often asked with the hope that I will suggest a course, book,...
View ArticleKnow The Limits Before You Hit Them
Imagine that you are hired to inspect, categorize, and stack inventory. You are trained, then tested, and you are capable of processing up to eight items per hour under ideal conditions. You are...
View ArticlePractice the Fundamentals: Build Your Own PC
This weekend I spent upgrading, updating, and reconfiguring my daughter’s and my son’s PCs. For the holidays my children received various films on Blu-Ray discs as gifts. We have a Blu-Ray player in...
View ArticleInvest In Your Own Lab
My new position with Atlantis Computing has been an intense and fun experience so far. After a week in Mountain View, CA for the worldwide kick-off event I came back home to a full schedule of meetings...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Disaster Recovery
Three terms that I hear being misused often by IT professionals new to the industry are “fault tolerance”, “high availability”, and “disaster recovery”. Here are some pictures that can help you...
View ArticleLearn How to Hold a Hammer
I was one of those kids who drove my family nuts building various devices and contraptions at my father’s workbench. At best these devices did not work, and at worst these “experiments” worked exactly...
View ArticleOf Fish & Ferraris
Yes, I’m somehow going to connect the two images above into a tale about enterprise storage solutions. Who said that creative writing course in college would never do me any good? A mentor and good...
View ArticleDon’t Go Shopping For More Of The Same
Last week I was working the Coho Data booth at VMworld, and I want to thank everyone who made our first year there a huge success! The booth was extremely busy in a very good way. I never had a chance...
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