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Virtualization. Virtual Machine. Virtual Appliance. We keep on hearing these words over and over: they’ve been a recurring topic for a few years now. And it’s growing to the point where the Microsoft vs. Google fight now has a new contender: Microsoft vs. VMware(1). So, what’s all the buzz about? Lets take a typical SMBRead more

One of our sales engineers was assisting a customer during a trial last week. The customer was a typical IT geek (it takes one to know one), the kind we know and love and continuously try to amaze and impress with our expertise, attention to detail and service. This customer, let’s call him Fred, wasRead more

I just wanted to share with you a very useful tool that’s been around for a while now, and it helped me solve a problem on a customer’s machine.  To properly investigate, I had to extract several logs from the customer’s server on a scheduled basis and have them FTP’d here so that I couldRead more

WHOIS (for those unfamiliar with it) is a system that provides free public access to domain name registration. Every domain name has to be registered with the following information: the registrants name, an administrative contact, a technical contact, and the name servers associated with each domain name. Its all about traceability. But “ human natureRead more

I’ve always been a pro-Linux type of guy.  I started using Unix back in 1992 (SunOS(1)) while studying for my software engineering degree. This university use led me to install Linux at home as a dual-boot option along with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 (with the amazing 800×600 resolution, or the flickering 1024i).  Over the years,Read more