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Email Archiving, Mimosa, Quest Software
Email archiving, E-discovery and poor business practise
Just been reading this blogpost about a disgruntled customer of Mimosa’s email archiving platform: http://blog.foreignkid.net/2009/11/mimosa-systems-nearpoint-horrible-company-and-relationship-stay-away/ , a very interesting read and it may be one sided but it does go to show how management of a situation could have led to a much better situation for Mimosa. When customer expectations are not being met, a…
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Michael Brooke
28/07/2010
NAS, SAN, Storage, Thin Provisioning
The Question of Storage and IT
Over the past several years, something insidiously unstoppable has been growing in the Data Centres and server rooms around the globe, we shall call it storage capacity. In the early days storage capacity grew slowly; an application owner might require 10 or 20 gigabytes for their CRM application or their SQL database. The IT manager…
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Michael Brooke
26/07/2010
Global Warming, NASA
Hah! who says global warming isn’t occurring, speak up?
Is it, Isn’t it? should I care and can i do anything to slow it down? Its not the normal topic of what I blog about but I just had to put this up; NASA study confirms 2010 is the hottest year on record? http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/paper/gistemp2010_draft0601.pdf Unlike the politico’s who like to deny there is any…
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Michael Brooke
14/07/2010
Mac, OSX, poor performance, repair Disk, slow
Mac OS X slowdown and repair
Our 2.0ghz Aluminum Macbook has ben going slow for months, spinning beachball, lag and generally enough frustration that even my 9 year old son was complaining. If you are experiencing a similar poorly performing Mac, try this tip; http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/durepairfns.html#Anchor-The-47857 Start up from your OS install disk and run a Disk Repair on the Startup disk,…
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Michael Brooke
11/07/2010
Kin, Microsoft
Microsoft RIP KIN, you never really lived
On techcrunch today you may see that the Microsoft KIN is to die shortly, ‘She’ never really lived, was a Smart phone without apps on an expensive data contract. Microsoft, your competitors are eating your lunch. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/30/microsoft-puts-down-the-kin/
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Michael Brooke
01/07/2010
Active Roles Server, FIM 2010
FIM 2010 and TEC2010
After reading Gil Kirkpatricks analysis of FIM 2010 and what the TEC2010 community what the community want Microsoft to do with the platform, (http://www.theexpertscommunity.com/item/view/id/4410) really interesting to see that customers really just want Microsoft to finish the basics of the platform. Many customers and partners I talk to now are contemplating FIM 2010 or have…
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Michael Brooke
20/05/2010
Apple, Dell, iPad, Tethering, Wifi
‘The nightmare that was’… configuring a Dell Latitude E6500 as a Wifi Access point
Recently as my previous post mentioned, I purchased a non 3G Apple iPad, the WiFi part is sufficient for almost all events I am involved with. This time though I was to be staying in a Marriot Hotel in KL, Malaysia where the Wifi access did not cover all the rooms and all I had…
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Michael Brooke
06/05/2010
Articles
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…
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Michael Brooke
01/05/2010
Architect, IT senior, Solutions Architect
Systems administrators and Solutions Architechs
How many people have inflated their role within a company? I’m sure many of you have. I have called myself different titles with ‘Senior’ being the most common, Why? Nowdays I don’t know – what was the impact of the title change? no one came to me with enhanced expectations because now I was a…
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Michael Brooke
23/03/2010
Articles
Microsoft Web platform Installer
I 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…
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Michael Brooke
14/07/2009