Archive for September, 2009

Its Time For Tape To Die

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There are days when all I can see are blood covered daggers sticking out of oozing backup tapes, strewn about a field littered with corpses of Symantec’s heinous Backup Exec non-application. I often wonder if there can be a new class of software called Frustrationware or Failureware. SBE is a horrible blight on human kind, [...]

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Why Cloud Computing Just Isn’t Ready Yet

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There is a smell in the air tells me that people are starting to think that living and working in the so-called Cloud is already well on its way. In case you don’t know what this means, its simple. Google is a part of the cloud. If, when you login to your computer at your [...]

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My New Windows 7 Book Is Available!

This item was filled under [ Site News ]

Ok, its not MY book, per se, but I did contribute three whole chapters to it and you can find my name in the Acknowledgments section. The book is actually Bob Cowart and Brian Knittle’s book, and they are good friends. I contributed the contents of chapters 10, 12, and 15, and there’s a little [...]

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Four Things You Can Do To Protect Your Network (And Probably Your Job)

This item was filled under [ The Practicals ]

Process and procedure are critical in any business, and not just in the IT department. If you work at home and you pull down $20K a month in sales, you don’t have an IT department, but your data and ability to work is just as important. The same goes for a company with 150 employees. [...]

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