As anyone reading this likely knows, the 2014 vExpert list was announced earlier this month (I'm honored to be a member for the third year now and will post later about my application). vExpert 2014 Announcement Shortly after, Jeramiah Dooley updated his analysis post - very cool that he’s done this for a third year now. But…he … Continue reading Having fun with vExpert to employee ratios, take 2
General
Whole house audio (mostly) on the cheap
TLDR version = some existing equipment and about $250 for a whole house music system based on Airplay. (Yes, it's been way too long since I've blogged...crazy schedule plus a botched WordPress automatic update pretty much stopped blogging in its tracks for much too long.) I'm one of those people who always has music on … Continue reading Whole house audio (mostly) on the cheap
Grateful
Grateful for a (paternal) grandmother in Florida who accepted Christ as her Savior just weeks before going to heaven last Friday with both her sons at her side in her own home of 40 years. Grateful for a (maternal) step-grandmother in Kansas who passed away in her sleep with no pain this morning having lived … Continue reading Grateful
Charleston AITP Presentation
I greatly appreciate all who attended the AITP luncheon in Charleston on Thursday - and especially those who stayed awake as I talked about Disaster Recovery for 40 minutes. For anyone who would like to view the slides from my presentation "Disaster Recovery: Business and Technology", they are available on Slideshare (see link below) as … Continue reading Charleston AITP Presentation
Boundaries
Growing up is a process of discovering boundaries. Being grown up is a process of defining boundaries.
Tools of the Trade – Stuff I Carry (Hardware)
Long time, no blog -- no excuses except the normal (crazy travel, lots of client meetings, lots of projects). Given a crazy schedule, having reliable tools is absolutely critical -- I'm not sure if anyone else is all that interested in what it takes to do my job but I figured why not find out. … Continue reading Tools of the Trade – Stuff I Carry (Hardware)
Driving Change without Relationships = Impossible
A rather bold title I realize but one I think I can back up.... Personal Experience -- I was often the one who got excited about technology that would drive change within my department. The more time I spent with those that would be affected the better things went over. Recent Meeting #1 Paraphrase -- … Continue reading Driving Change without Relationships = Impossible
Career Scalability
Most of us in the IT field are very familiar with the concept of scalability -- often we'll think in terms of scaling up (add more resources into a single system) or scaling out (adding more systems into the mix and splitting up workloads). Recently I've been thinking of the concept of career scalability -- … Continue reading Career Scalability
Data-driven recommendations, please.
Crazy as it may seem, as a Technical Consultant I spend a good bit of time gathering data -- performance data, utilization data, configuration data...the list goes on. We even had a specific couple hour training session last Friday in Greensboro on some of the tools we should be using (thanks to Matt Hensley for … Continue reading Data-driven recommendations, please.
Managed Services = what exactly?
No, I'm not being facetious...I'm simply seeing this definition evolve before my eyes as I sit in various meetings (sometimes part of the discussion, sometimes just a fly on the wall). In the last several weeks, I've seen real interest in Managed Services in companies that range the spectrum -- large commercial, education, government, medical … Continue reading Managed Services = what exactly?
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