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First it was laptop computers, now its tablets. The enterprise is getting more mobile and IT groups have to find ways to ensure security can keep up. This mobile world has always brought challenges to the IT group. While IT worries about security and management of these mobile devices, the business is concerned with productivity [...]
Everyone’s moving to the cloud. Rightly so…the cloud brings scalability and agility and it provides opportunities for true innovation by IT groups. Many teams are moving operations and data centers – or parts of data centers – to the Cloud. But there’s more to the Cloud than just a place to store data. The Cloud isn’t [...]
I went out for a walk last night and saw a couple Scissor-tailed Flycatcher’s catching bugs on the ground. I laid down on the ground and inched as close to them as I could. My auto-focus was having a hard time keeping up but this one turned out OK. I just wish the sidewalk wasn’t [...]
This is a cross-post from Trade The Sentiment. On April 23 2013, the Associated Press reportedly had their Twitter account hacked. At 1:07PM Eastern Time, a Tweet was sent out that claimed an explosion at the White House. Here’s the Tweet: About 2 minutes after this Tweet was sent, the Stock Market saw a sell-off. According [...]
VMware’s Online Forum 2013 is starting now. Jump on and learn more about virtualization, automation and management tools. There are live breakout sessions happening that will let you take a deep dive into various technologies and offering as well as opportunities to meet new folks from around the world. I’m going to be looking for [...]
The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from the data. Information visualization is a process that transforms data and knowledge into a form that relies on the human visual system to perceive its embedded information. The goal is to enable the [...]
Today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Rather than do my normal Foto Friday, I wanted to add a few photos from the Bombing Memorial. Enjoy and remember the people that lost their lives and the families that were affected.
I’m the worlds worst developer. Really. I am. I don’t follow best practices and my coding style is the oft-chided “brute force” method. I owe (blame?) my coding style on the fact that the first language I learned was FORTRAN 77 and then quickly I picked up C. Then…I spent 3 years teaching FORTRAN 77 [...]
Young and Hungry – carpe factum Quote: Young and hungry is not about ego. In proving itself, young and hungry lets the accomplishment trump the personality. We’ll let Kim Jong Un stay in North Korea, thank you very much. We have enough little dictators invading our cubicles already. Young and hungry is not autocratic. It [...]
I’ve written about the topic “Bring your own Device” (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does having a BYOD policy that allows your employees to bring their own devices increase the workload and complexity for the IT staff? My gut reaction to [...]
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