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This article over at Network World had some relativity this week.  Its about an email system, PostPath Server, that is an Exchange clone.  Based on what the article says it sounds like a decent option especially when cost is considered.
The relativity it had was that we have started, for the third time, a migration to Exchange […]

Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend.  I know I sure did.
It seems I may have ruffled some feathers at Synergy last week regarding some information I received from the Datacore folks regarding support for 2 Gb storage area networks in VMware ESX.  I mentioned it in my previous post and perhaps I was […]

I was a half a beer away from being in bed at 10:30 last night.  A lot can change in a half a beer.  I got to bed at 1:00 AM.  When my phone alarm went off at 6:20 the TV was on and I was laying on the remote.  Then I had to sit through […]

There wasn’t actually much delight about this afternoon.  This afternoon consisted of three topic specific sessions.  I sat in on the following:
Citrix Provisioning Server - Key Enabler of the Dynamic Datacenter
Maximizing Web Application Performance with Citrix NetScaler Acceleration
Citrix XenServer, Platinum - Advanced Technical Architecture
The first and third were the two sessions where I had an […]

“When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network.”  Eric Schmidt 1993
Hello, hello.  I have a short break right now during lunch so I figured I’d write a little about the morning key notes.  First out of the gate was Nicholas Carr who has made waves […]

What an exhausting week.  It was the kind of week that made me say to myself “There’s got to be a better way to earn a living.”  Its almost over though and for that I am thankful. Today El Sidekick did manage to leap frog me into middle management. We think it was […]

El Sidekick, and perhaps TB, read the title to this post and chuckled.  The title stems from a simple configuration oversight.  Three times over.
As I write this the air seems a little more pure, the sun a little brighter and the grass a little greener.  This game we play isn’t a Mike Tyson (in his […]

Happy Mothers Day to all of the mothers out there.  I did a good job of getting the mother in my house good and pissed at me for no reason last night and this morning.  Last night about 9:00 PM I acted like I needed to run out and get a Mothers Day card for […]

Now that I’ve shaken the cob webs off of the liver stress test I performed Sunday how about we get under the sheets with QoS?  I’ve mentioned in a previous post that Class of Service (cos) is the layer 2 mechanism used for quality of service and that Differentiated Services Code Point (dscp) is the layer […]

Mr. Bump:  “If I drank 15 beers tonight I’d be face down!”
Mrs. Bump:  “Well maybe you should put your face down.”