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10 In-demand skills to learn in 2019

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

You probably spent the last month or two reading 2019 prediction posts. Or posts about how those posts were absolutely wrong… LOL So, instead of telling you what technologies and products will make waves in 2019, I thought it would…

Why Innovation, Risk, and Curves make for the best careers

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

In the technology sector it’s safe to say that no one has done the same job for the duration of their entire career. Things just change too fast for that to ever happen. In my experience what separates those who…

What I’ve been up to lately

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

It’s been a while since I’ve done a real in-depth post on a product or technology, so I thought I would share what I’ve been playing around with lately. There will probably be some more in depth posts coming on…

Their rules or they won’t play!

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Have you ever known someone who would only play a game by their rules? And if it came down to choosing between their rules or not playing, then they just wouldn’t play? I though that was only kid stuff but…

HP StoreOnce Virtual Appliance Announced

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This week I have been attending HP’s Discover event in Las Vegas and one of the big announcements was the release of a virtual StoreOnce Appliance. If you are not familiar with StoreOnce it is similar to EMC Data Domain,…

At what point do you just play dumb

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

Update: The struggles is over! I have Fiber to the home now… Thank God! My internet service provider is quite the pain in the ass. (At least if you are looking for “reliable” service and customer support) I live in…

Reiterating Why I Blog

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

This morning I got an email from Linked-In telling me about all the new groups I should join, and since I’m on vacation today and trying not to get too bored I decided to bite. One of those groups was…

What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my second year attending VMworld, last year was a great time…

Scale Up or Scale Out, Which do you do? 2 Socket or 4 Socket Servers?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

I was talking with a customer today about an application we are talking about virtualizing. The vendor only recommends purchasing HP DL580 servers, loading them with lots of RAM and 4 CPU’s. I personally like the idea of DL380 servers…

vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more details about the new vRAM entitlements by visiting VMware.com or…