DiscoPosse Review: iOS 6 Programming Cookbook – Vandad Nahavandipoor

One word review: Complete. The iOS 6 Programming Cookbook by Vandad Nahavandipoor from O’Reilly Publishing is not just a cookbook, but a full end-to-end recipe guide for every aspect of iOS application development for iPhone and iPad using Xcode from Apple. The audience is definitely developers. As a system admin with some dabbling in development … Read more

Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5 – Get Wowed!

I’ve had an incredibly busy month so I’m a little late with my review of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 which is now in general availability. If you are already a Veeam Customer then I’m sure you are planning your migration. Not a customer yet? Not a problem because you are just steps away from … Read more

Appliances and OVF: The packaged approach to deployment

Appliances are a great way to approach system deployments for your VMware environment. We are seeing more and more of this method of delivery of application environments, and with the increased number of vendors jumping on board, this is a sign that something is being done right. What is an Appliance? The appliance in a … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Ethics of Big Data – Kord Davis and Doug Patterson

One of the interesting topics of Big Data is what an organization will do with it. That topic is nicely handled in Ethics of Big Data by Kord Davis (@KordIndex) and Doug Patterson (@dep923). O’Reilly Press has come to us with some great content with this book. There is a very careful balance with the … Read more