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I had never heard of “Rachel’s Challenge” before. Maybe I should have. Started by the parents of the first student killed in the Columbine shootings, it’s mission is to reach out to the students who are the victims of bullying and help create safer learning environments. The organization came to my son’s [...]
Continue Reading →Ken Hui and I started with VCE roughly at the same time in mid-to-late 2010. We were both able to participate in the EMC vSpecialist on-boarding as part of Team05, and he quickly emerged as one of the leaders of the VCE team for that week. We also had to [...]
Continue Reading →As an unabashed lover of list-making, New Year’s resolutions are something that I love making and yet often lack the discipline to follow through on. This year, I’m working on defining tasks at the point where technology intersects with the people in my life, finding ways to interact in ways that are more secure, safer [...]
Continue Reading →Wow. It seems like just yesterday that everyone was getting set to start the 2012 sales kickoff roadshow, culminating in a wonderful week of pinball and pints in London at Cisco Live EU. Now, I look around and see that we are quickly closing in on 2013 and I’m dismayed to realize how fast the [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve shared this with a couple people, but after having Matt Brender comment on it again at dinner after the EMC Forum in Boston last week I thought I’d share with everyone…
For those of you who don’t know, I played baseball for most of my life. After moving to Charlotte post-college [...]
Continue Reading →See what I did there? For a moment I pretended I worked for a bastion of technology news reporting and made up a completely ridiculous title just to attract page views. Of course, I don’t advertise on this site at all, so I guess the joke is on me…
Anyway, I’m not a Mac guy. [...]
Continue Reading →So, I’m still working on my Cisco Live write-up, but after five days of walking at the conference and three days of walking through Legoland and Disneyland, I’m going to need a little while to recuperate! In the meantime, I wanted to drop a few quick thoughts on the awesome community that we (all of [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve had this post sitting around for a while, and I’m still not sure I should publish it. Of course if you are reading it then I’ve pushed the button and am bracing for the inevitable…
Today, in the technology arena, there is an endless debate that borders on religious at times. Sides are drawn, [...]
Continue Reading →Last year, when vLaunchPad kicked off the voting for the 2011 Top 25 VMware Blogs, it was a goldmine for me. As someone who had recently moved from the customer side of the game to a vendor, it was a great way to get exposure to all of the incredible content being [...]
Continue Reading →For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, I beg your indulgence as this post is going to be a little different, and a little personal. I promise to get back on schedule with the technical/business posts, and I have my 2011 recap ready to go for next week, but this is [...]
Continue Reading →I think it’s because of the many, many years that I spent playing and managing baseball, but I’ve always been interested in the concept of teams, and the art/science behind building them. Much like a baseball team, where different positions require different skillsets and personalities, enterprises today also require a mix of people with different [...]
Continue Reading →Just a quick post to share with you a milestone that I’m pretty excited about. I made my first post to this blog on February 13, 2010 and what started out as a way for me to help organize my thoughts and share things with my internal team has turned into one of [...]
Continue Reading →This is a quick addendum to the recent posts on my home lab, showing what can happen when you don't think all the way through a migration project!
As part of building out the new lab, I needed to move all of my internal management VMs over. They had been residing on an HP DL360 [...]
Continue Reading →With part one of my whole home computing make-over complete, it’s time to get finish up on the lab! There are tons of other great blogs out there that talk about home labs (like this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and Continue Reading →
Me! Ha! I know, right? Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! (What movie is that from?)
All kidding aside, this feels like a weight off my shoulders and [...]
Continue Reading →I have developed a strange fondness for my home lab that is wholly unexpected. It started as a way for me to get some real stick time with some of the technologies that I work with and talk to customers about every day, and has transformed into part Zen garden, part hobby and part pseudo [...]
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