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December 22, 2024

What a scene from The Da Vinci Code made me learn about IT Security

Over the last few years my brain has made a transition from the day to day transactional "fire fighting" mindset to more of strategic "fire prevention" line of thinking.  More and more I've noticed that many of my

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Top 5 Discoveries at HP Discover 2014

HP's flagship US customer event Discover has just wrapped up for its 4th time since it started in 2011 at the very same Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.  For the last few years HP has graciously

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Don’t Succumb to Tech Burnout/Bankruptcy

I recently read this article written by fellow blogger Phil Sellers on the short and long term stresses that plague pretty much every IT employee today - he brilliantly coined this “Tech Debt”.  Long story

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How to/Lessons Learned: Adding Drives To Your 3PAR Array

About a year ago I was tasked with expanding one of this first US production StoreServ 7000 arrays and wanted to share the process and shed some light on the "gotchas" involved.  This post was

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HP Gen8 Blade Firmware Update Error – “Unable to Contact Update Server”

When updating the firmware of your HP blades servers form out of this box be prepared to first make sure that the correct NIC that the update process will use to contact the HP update

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Citrix XenApp 6 – SHA2 Certificate Issues with Secure Gateway

I was recently involved with recovering from a crashed Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 environment. The solution involved jettisoning the 4.5 farm and building out a fresh XenApp 6.5 farm. Everything pretty much went smooth until

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