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
Read MoreI 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
Read MoreI 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
Read MoreIt’s been almost two months since Hurricane Sandy first hit the Northeast and changed many people’s lives for years to come. About a year before in 2011 we were all preparing for Sandy’s baby sister,
Read MoreI recently completed a Mobile Device Management proof of concept for a medium sized Financial firm with about 500 users. I ran into an issue that I’ve seen before where the Good Messaging server would
Read MoreHappy to report that last night I passed the EMC 20-001 (ISM) exam to earn the EMCISA designation. Preparing for the exam was a blast so I figured I would share some
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