Unofficial Cisco UCS Wallpaper
I snapped some screenshots of the Cisco UCS bootup process and found that they can make some cool wallpaper. So if you’re a UCS geek… here ya go! Disclaimer: all…
Author: Justin Paul
Hands on with the new EMC VNX5400
This week I was onsite with a customer setting up their new virtualization environment and got to play with a couple of the new EMC VNX5400’s. I wont go through…
Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere…
MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster
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
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
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
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?
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…
Finally, vSphere 5.1 and Win2012 Support for Backup Exec
If you are a Backup Exec shop and also a vSphere 5.1 or Windows 2012 shop, you are going to want to get your Backup Exec updated today. It’s hard…
Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager Review
As part of my day job I spend a bunch of time getting in and out of customer networks to monitor and fix things. Managing the connection information for a…