2014 – Making good things happen – the non-prediction edition

It’s a common tradition among IT folks, and anyone for that matter in their particular industry, to make predictions on the coming year. Last year I put a few thoughts out there that got some good results out of them: 2013 Predictions in Virtualization and Server Technology  and I was pretty pleased to be a part … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing from Packt Publishing

There is some really great work coming out the various “stack” products, and for Apache CloudStack is very certainly one of the popular environments we see out there. I decided to look at the Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing book to guide me through the process and it was just what I needed! One of the … Read more

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator on VMware Workstation

For those who want to try out the Cisco UCS Platform in a test system, you have a great option available to you which is the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator. This can be downloaded and run using VMware as your host. You can use VMware vSphere, or you can also run this on the very … Read more

Is this thing on? Using the PowerShell Test-Connection CmdLet

As a lover of all things PowerShell, I’m constantly doing queries and tasks against large pools of computer objects from my Active Directory network. One of the continuing challenges I run into is machines which are registered computer objects domain, but not online. It’s not a problem that they aren’t online in general, but the … Read more