The value of certification — For the love of the blueberry shirt Occasionally I’ll wear my “blueberry” VMware certification shirt to work. Some people in the community love these shirts, some people don’t. I, do. Blue also happens to be my favorite color.
In re, Doorbell Tweets I received a lot of feedback from my tweet about ditching a new Ring for Nest Hello. I think my Nest Hello preorder has shipped, or is shipping soon. Credit card has been
iOS Power Best Practices Disclaimer: I’m not responsible for your device going into meltdown as a result of something you see here.
Chain Reaction Messaging Someone sends a fiery email to a small group of influential people, and you recognize you’re the person to solve the problem, but...
My essential 10 iOS apps Two weeks ago, after regretfully trying to use the iOS 11 developer betas on my primary devices, I was forced by general instability to roll back to iOS 10.
Will work for reasonable salary + benefits The process of looking for a new job is stressful. If you already have one, you’re a bit like a secret agent, sneaking around town trying to complete the mission of getting
An end and a beginning This morning I gave two weeks notice to my current employer, where I have been a senior data center engineer for the last six years.
Dell EMC Elect I’m going to start this by saying something that might seem strange for a post like this, but is no surprise to my closest friends: The last two months, and especially the
Looking back at Neowin Most of the people who know and interact with me professionally, or on social media know me as “vmstan” — and if you asked most of those people they’d tell you I only
Just enough Windows I’ve not been a true “Windows user” on a daily basis since the glorious afternoon my first MacBook Pro arrived in 2011. That didn’t exactly mean I quit using Windows on
Apple Leather Case for iPhone 7 I have an on-again, off-again relationship with iPhone cases. I put them on. I take them off. I generally don’t like cases. I’ve only broken my iPhone one time and that
Security from obscurity A couple of years ago, one of our network security architects at work told me that I was in the wrong business. Storage, virtualization, data centers, it’s all going to the cloud.
Migrate to VCSA Last night I did my first customer migration from a Windows based vCenter to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using the new 6.0 U2M utility. The customer was previously running vCenter
Crashing ESXi with Cisco RAID controllers Recently I had two VMware Horizon View proof of concept setups for work, where we designed an all in one Cisco UCS C240 M4 box, full of local SSD and spindles, in various
16GB Problems For many years, 16GB devices have been an issue for Apple and its users. However Apple fixed this in September, bumping up to 32GB of storage as the new minimum capacity in the
AT&T Mobile Share “Advantage” You know you have a problem when you get excited about plan changes on your cellular provider. Yesterday, AT&T gave me a problem. Initially, no more data overages, higher caps, and
Cisco to audit code in wake of Juniper backdoor In the wake of an announcement by Juniper that after an internal code audit, they had uncovered two backdoors in the operating systems used in their NetScreen firewalls, Cisco has announced that they’
Nutanix files for IPO Nutanix announced on Wednesday that it has filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed IPO. The number of shares being offered and the price of the offering have not yet
NetApp to purchase SolidFire NetApp, Inc. on Monday announced its intent to acquire the Boulder, Colorado based all-flash array (AFA) vendor SolidFire, for $870 million in cash. According the to announcement, NetApp intends to incorporate SolidFire’s
Juniper finds backdoor exposing encrypted VPN traffic In a security advisory posted late Thursday, Bob Worrall, Juniper Network’s Chief Information Officer, announced that the ScreenOS software used on the company’s NetScreen firewalls contains an unauthorized backdoor allowing third
Keeping USB drives clean with BlueHarvest I’ve long been annoyed with copying files to a USB stick, and then handing them to a Windows user (typically a customer) and then telling them to ignore all the .whatever files
Regrets of a Plus sized model My original bout with the 4.7" iPhone 6 lasted almost seven months to the day. I remember this because I received it on September 19, 2014. It was the same day
The new(er) Apple TV When the 4th generation Apple TV was announced a few weeks back, my initial response was basically “take my money!” But then, I had second thoughts, and I didn’t order one at
Pearson VUE’s credential management system has been compromised Pearson VUE, who manages the certification programs for a large number of IT vendors like Cisco and EMC, has announced that their credential system has been the successful target of an attack. The
