When I first started in system administration, I asked a colleague who was talking about SNMP what the ETLA* stood…
So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…
It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…
For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…
Some time ago, I posted a blog entry titled Carry a Jukebox with you, if you’re using Linux, which referred…
So yesterday I got an excited email from Virgin’s Velocity Rewards Program*. It enthusiastically read: Preston, surprise! You’ve turned gold!…
Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…
I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for the Mac for several years now – in fact, when I originally started using…
It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…
When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…