IT security ‘Best Practise’ in Australia, or better titled “Security through Avoidance”
Read More: IT security ‘Best Practise’ in Australia, or better titled “Security through Avoidance”Reading this article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/aisa_finding_infosec_bores_board_execs/) today was a reminder to me of the customers I talk to on a daily basis. Having worked in many countries previous to coming to Australia, it was very apparent that security was very topical for Northern Hemisphere companies, with standards such as HiPAA, SOX, J SOX, Basel II, PCI. Not…
Office 365 to take over the world? or at least business….
Read More: Office 365 to take over the world? or at least business….Interesting commentary on Office 365, I can see both sides of the debate and I believe everyone is somewhat correct in their assertions, many customers will migrate to Office 365, some will remain on the platform they have until support ends due to cost of migrating to a new platform when it doesn’t offer anything…
Configuring ‘Fusion IO’ without a specialised ‘Hybrid Hard Drive’
Read More: Configuring ‘Fusion IO’ without a specialised ‘Hybrid Hard Drive’My main PC hard drive recently failed leaving me data less and with no PC to run Steam games from. Luckily most of my data was already replicated to a central NAS and other critical data shared between “Google Drive” and “Microsoft SkyDrive” so the loss was restricted to save games …. noooooooo …… Skyrim…
Gmail Delete All
Read More: Gmail Delete AllMarking all email as ‘read’ in Gmail? My issue has been the huge number of unread emails displayed on the IOS Gmail icon. There is a great article here on how to remove the annoyance of email status without opening each and every message. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-to-mark-all-unread-emails-as-read-in-gmail-and-more/80754
Intuitive Windows Error message #1
Read More: Intuitive Windows Error message #1Intuitive Microsoft Windows 7 error message #1 Working on my laptop this morning I discover an issue with VMware Workstation 9 having uninstalled without any prompting from me. Whats odd is that my laptop was disconnected from power and in sleep mode when this uninstall occurred as starting up VMware was the first activity attempted…
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I’m sitting here at 31,000 feet above Australia writing this blog entry on my new Apple iPad and realising what an evolutionary device it is. The iPod touch was a half way point, not suitable for serious use but great for testing the waters of what can be done with the touch screen format with…
Microsoft Web platform Installer
Read More: Microsoft Web platform InstallerI happened upon the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta today: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx and am very impressed by what I found. Recently I started looking into Ubuntu as a web server for delivering a website I wish to develop, the website would contain forums and wikis etc and Linux seems the ideal platform for web dev…
Organisational Storage considerations
Read More: Organisational Storage considerationsThis week I had a chance to spend two days with a proactive andforward thinking Storage team within a large organisation (I can'tprovide the customer name unfortunately). This customer had over 750 Terabyes of San storage across four EMCSymmetrix Sans, covering production and BCP copies of all configuredstorage.A real eye opener was the level of…
