With the upcoming release of the Windows 8 “release preview” in June and the full release of Windows 8 rumoured to be set for October, I thought now would be a good time to have a look at the next … Continue reading
Following my previous blog post on Business Continuity, I would like to continue today on the same theme, but this time moving to the concept of resilience. Resilience in the context of Business Continuity can be defined as a combination … Continue reading
The topic of the last PicNet User Group meeting was on Business Continuity and Resilience. The discussion in this meeting revolved around the importance of business involvement and eventual business ownership in a successful BCP project and how to develop … Continue reading
After working with the Riverbed Steelhead Appliances for a number of years now I thought I would share some of the additional performance tweaks you can make beyond the out the box configuration without the need to contact Riverbed Technical … Continue reading
This is a great article put up by ITnews.com.au for any IT Manager out there: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/166078,five-tips-to-kit-out-your-data-centre-on-the-cheap.aspx/0
Hello and welcome to my first new blog post of the decade…aka 2010! I recently underwent a research of the various big cloud providers as part of a new project / product inside PicNet and I thought this would be … Continue reading
I stumbled across this article this morning and found it quite an interesting read. The article describes why many organisations struggle with IT due to a lack of standard definitions for terminology and practices. Click here:
Microsoft has recently released the new version of Exchange Mail Server 2010. As with each new version of Exchange new features are added and it’s very nice to see that the focus on new features around retention, governance & compliance … Continue reading
The majority of projects that I have managed have been software development projects. At PicNet we use an agile software development methodology. We like the Agile approach because it allows us to get feedback from the business on the system … Continue reading
I’ve just come back from spending 2 days at the biggest virtualization forum in the ANZ region for 2009…….the VMware vForum! I must say that the event was huge with over 2500 attendees and over 60 technology vendors with their … Continue reading