There is a lot of hype over SD-WAN at the moment, with movements by telcos and OEM suppliers investing in some of the new startups. And folks that have been…
Fixing resource constraints with an infinite number of monkeys
As part of the training I am receiving as an element of the new role, I recently partook in a Design Thinking course, where as there are no wrong or…
Shutdown or startup ESXi Virtual Machines from the Host Command Line
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this…
IBM partners for Weather Company datastream
You might think that the weather is important. Certainly, here in the UK, I do, every time I step outside the office. But did you know that ice-cream manufacturers need…
The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet
Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…
Happy Birthday: Linux is 20 years old
So Linux is 20.. It's come a long way from the home-brew operating system that was for IBM-AT clones that Linus Torvalds imagined back then. At the time he was…