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Will you lose your job to technology?
Wouldn’t the dinosaurs have loved to know? Will you too be extinct soon, well, your job anyways? Here’s a fun infographic for the day… Will your job be lost to technology and when? Staff.com – Connecting Great Companies with Global Talent
Understanding the 3PAR difference in array architecture
I have been working on this post for well over a year, but it never made it out of my drafts because I didn’t feel comfortable with 3PAR. That all changed this year with the purchase and implementation of two 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series arrays. As an HP EVA customer, 3PAR has always been a compelling alternative, [...]
vSphere 4.1 to 5.1 lessons learned
For the last two years, I’ve been behind the curve with VMware vSphere. My deployment has continued to run at vSphere 4.1 while the rest of the world ticked along with 5.0 and 5.1. We were stuck because we relied on VMware’s Update Manager product to handle guest OS patching in our environment and we [...]
The Showdown: Sysman vs NetMan
In their latest wave of survey findings, Solarwinds poses the Systems Administrator versus the Network Administrator – SysMan versus NetMan. The following is an infographic with the findings as they compare the people behind the two job titles. click to enlarge the graphic The full press release is below: SolarWinds Survey Reveals IT Pros are [...]
PowerCLI One-liners for Storage Problems
Automation has been a huge part of my recent learning curve. I’ve spend a considerable amount of time working with tools to decrease my manual administration time within our VMware environment. One tool is vCenter Orchestrator and the other is trusty old PowerCLI. In the process, I’ve found myself increasingly spending more time with PowerCLI [...]
SysAdmins Revealed! Who are we?
Behind the dark curtain, tucked far away in the back of the building – they’re lurking. People see them, they say hi to them, they know their name (mostly from the emails they receive), but they really don’t know what these people do. Bloodshot eyes from long nights of coding – for work and for [...]
Dropcam celebrating its 4th birthday with a giveaway
Dropcam, the maker of the awesome IP camera and DVR service, is celebrating its 4th birthday and to celebrate, they’re giving away a free Dropcam or a year of Dropcam DVR service each day for the next 7 days. Get all the details on how to enter the contest over at Dropcam’s Facebook page or at [...]
Review: Redbox Instant & why I canceled my trial
A few weeks ago, I was excited to receive the “You’re In” email from Redbox for their new Redbox Instant streaming service. I was excited to see a competitor to Amazon and Netflix for lots of new movies. But today, I closed my account. I’m still optimistic to revisit Redbox Instant in the future, even [...]
Resolving errors running SharePoint 2013 App Store behind a proxy
First Impressions I have been playing with the final release copy of SharePoint 2013 to get my feet wet and learn the new environment. The default style for 2013 is the Metro/Modern user interface layered onto a web application. It’s approachable and welcoming, as opposed to earlier version of SharePoint which felt foreign and different from every [...]
Virtual Storage Appliances may fundamentally change virtualization landscape
One of the biggest hurdles for virtualization adoption in the small business area has been the need for expensive, shared storage. The Virtual Storage Appliance is looking to change that. By utilizing the relatively cheap, attached storage in host systems and pooling those into a storage array, vendors are looking to extend the goodness of [...]
