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It’s true!  The ramparts have been breached and the once all-male bastion that was itgroove has fallen.  We now have a permanent female presence in our office in the person of Kelly Marshall.  We are probably similar to many other tech firms in the “maleness” of the place, geek-girls just don’t seem to populate our …

I’ve managed to get a lot farther with the backup process.  All of the issues with the second VM have been fixed and the remote backup of that VM has been successful.  Throughput for it is the same as that for the first VM so I’m pretty happy overall. A few things learned along the …

Where were you 10 years ago? In September 2003, Sean and I had just made the long journey back to Canada after living in Bermuda for 5 years. We had a 1 ½ year old baby and one on the way. About a week before we moved back here, there was a huge hurricane (Floyd …

There is a lot of talk nowadays about “IT bloat”, usually by the guys that are in the forefront of delivering Cloud services.  And they have a point, IT can bloat like mad if you don’t keep things under control.  Services like Office 365 can be a godsend for many organizations because they offer a …

As promised, this is the next instalment in my Veeam posts, specifically on Remote Backup (backup to a remote site across the WAN). This has been a learning experience even though I already had one site doing remote backup for almost a year.  The goal with this particular project is to leverage as much goodness …

Many years ago, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems and a “human quote machine” made the comment, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”  The comment was made in reference to questions about security and privacy on the Web.  While Scott’s comment may have been a bit over the top, there is a …

If you are a “big IT shop” kind of person then you already know what I’m talking about so you can ignore the rest of this post.  If you are a “small shop” IT person or an SMB owner, this one is for you! We recently upgraded a customer by swapping out their ageing EqualLogic …

Great post by Vadim about the available actions in Nintex for Office 365, and how the packages break down.  http://www.vadimtabakman.com/nintex-workflow-for-office-365-available-actions.aspx

Before I get rolling on this post let me just say this … I am unapologetic about it, I think Veeam is one of the best applications to come down the pike in a long, long time.  And, no, I’m not a Veeam employee, just a very enthusiastic user of the product!  OK, now for …

They say that opposites attract. I know from experience that it is totally true. I don’t think you could find someone less interested in new technology than me. I feel the same way with cars. If it works, great. Why change it? Unfortunately for me, Sean sees things differently. It seems like once a month …