September 2013 - Justin's IT Blog

MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

I’ve done posts before about how much I hate Microsoft Clusters, mainly because of their shared disk requirements. While VMware does support a virtualized Microsoft cluster with shared disks, the…

Using the VMware OS Optimization Tool for VDI locally

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

In July VMware released a new fling on the VMware Labs site that is designed to help you apply all VMware best practices for virtual desktops in one easy swoop.…

Meet Lumenate

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Recently DPSciences merged with a Dallas based technical consulting firm called Lumenate. Lumenate has a similar focus as DPS but with offices in different cities and a slightly different skill…

Get started with Big Data using Hortonworks Sandbox

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I tried a couple of times to get Hadoop installed on Ubuntu from the group up, and while there are a bunch of how to guides out there, many of…

Why are people interested in Big Data?

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Recently, I have been reading up on big data mainly because I’m a geek and partly because of all the buzz floating around about it. I also got to sit…