By Sully 3/29/14 So there you are. Your linux box is locked down in the middle of a firewall battlefield. Production is down because program alpha is broken. Support wants a log file sent in. The only ports you have open are specific to secure telnet and the broken service itself. A simple option, Python. […]
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March 16th, 2014 
Christian Weidelman You ever have a feeling that your on the precipice of something, but can’t see 6 inches over the ledge? That’s how I feel about IBM storage after the sale of IBM’s server business to Lenovo. You look at some of the post sale news articles, employee postings on the IBM alliance web page and […]
vSphere 5.5 U1 Has Landed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman vSphere 5.5 U1 has landed and brings vSAN and Hybrid Cloud integration support among many bug fixes. Find some of the details here. As always adopt the update after testing, measured consideration and a double of your favorite drink.
Cloud Killed the Systems Admin
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman I tell you I have missed some great posts by The Register this week. I could not agree more with the ideas conveyed by Jack Clark in his article on The Register. People hear the word “cloud” and they see money saved, staff not needed and skill sets not required to get their idea turned […]
Azure gets cozy with Oracle
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman While not news that Microsoft and Oracle have been building tighter ties for a while now it has now opened up an announcement for Azure built images of Oracle. For those of us that get to deal with Oracle on occasion this provides an opportunity to work with Oracle without a larger investment. The […]
More Info on the Target Breach Detailed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman This is the best read I have seen so far… Business Week Target Breach This reinforces the thought that every IT person should have a minor in security for the their day-to-day job.
Big Thanks to a Few Trainers
March 13th, 2014 Christian Weidelman I was lucky enough to get to learn from some great guys from VMware over the past three weeks. A big thanks goes out to the crew at VMware Education. Brian Watrous Joe Desmond Rodney McIntosh These guys provided a great deal of information about vCAC, vCloud Director and VMware Orchestrator. If you get a […]
Crazy Cat
March 12th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Ok, so I hardly ever listen to the radio these day, but my wife had it set on when I drove to work this morning and I heard the most entertaining sound byte in a while. Listen all the way through. Number one rule, don’t get stoned and then hit your cat.
Star Citizen Hits 40 Million in Funding
March 11th, 2014 Christian Weidelman If you are a Wing Commander fan from back in the day this is for you and your inner child. Read the update here. I signed up way back in the day when the game was being kickstarted. This game will swallow many weeks of my life when it gets to Alpha/Beta and then release.
10 Years of Deadwood
March 11th, 2014 Christian Weidelman If you haven’t seen it then watch this video… Once you finish watching grab a copy from some place and watch it all the way through. If you have seen it then watch this video and then grab your copy and re-watch! Caution, profanity does ensue in this video clip as well as the show. […]
Infinidat Website Launched
March 11th, 2014 Christian Weidelman You can now find the new Infinidat company website here. I am most interested in the newly announced Infinbox storage system. I liken it to a high density Swiss Army knife of storage. Below are some of the major components of the InfiniBox. InfiniRAID InfiniSnap Up to 2 PB in a single 19 inch rack […]
VCP Recertification
March 11th, 2014 Christian Weidelman It was only a matter of time, but it seems now that VMware is taking a page from other vendors to align it’s certification’s with its releases more closely. The announcement which can be found here details out how VMware will be working to make sure certifications for VMware professionals stay current an applicable. When […]
VMware Horizons DaaS Launched
March 10th, 2014 Christian Weidelman VMware’s much awaited launch of its Horizons DaaS product came to be today. This service is a product of the Desktone procurement last year and its integration into the Horizon suite. The official announcement can found here from VMware. Ever since I started hearing of the direction for Horizon suite I had concerns on how this […]
Rig Rebuild
March 10th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Well it was inevitable at this point. The OS on my Gaming Rig gave up the ghost. I think after loading 400 games on the OS, re-imaging it to a new HD and then running about a dozen and a half game alphas/betas on it the OS succumbed to its injuries. Spent the weekend backing […]
Tropico 5
March 6th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Tropico 5 was announced a bit ago, but a new trailer is out for today. My gaming crew turned me on to this series at Tropico 3 and I have enjoyed it ever since. The fact that this new release will be CO-OP makes it a possible great add to the weekend tool kit of […]
VMware VSAN has Arrived
March 6th, 2014 Christian Weidelman VMware is finally releasing its VSAN product next week. With today’s presentation the specs for VSAN have been released. A few bullet points below. I am highly interested in load testing this with VDI as this could be a cost-effective performance boost for VDI clusters I […]
Infinidat – Not Today
March 6th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Looks like they had to push the new site launch out a couple more days. Stay tuned sports fans, I believe it will be worth the wait.
Infinidat
March 5th, 2014 Christian Weidelman For those of you who have seen some of the discovery articles on The Register and are interested to find out more about the Infinidat product offerings then you are in luck. The Infinidat web site seems to have a countdown to something for 4 PM Central time this Thursday. Be there or be squared. […]
Homeworld Remake
March 5th, 2014 Christian Weidelman For all of us suckers who wish to go back to old school on space tactical combat and have lived under a rock then I have a treat for you. Homeworld is a great game to solo on a weekend when you just want to do something. I highly recommend that if you haven’t played […]
Back…
March 5th, 2014 Christian Weidelman After almost two years of not coming up for air I am finally back to a week that didn’t involve lighting my hair on fire and deciding that a world without sleep was a more efficient place. So this is my second attempt at keeping a blog of random information and pieces of flair. Who […]