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Moving to HP Cloud DNS Services

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Update 2016-10-20: Since writing this article HP has shutdown their cloud offering. I now host my DNS at Cloudflare and it works great! The other day I got an email that said something to the effect of “HP Cloud DNS…

Toledo Lunch and Lab on Friday

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

OK, I know its short notice, but if you aren’t doing anything for lunch on Friday I will be doing a Lunch and Lab event with DPSciences, Cisco, VMware, and EMC in Toledo Ohio. If you are interested here is…

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,…

HP Gen8 MicroServer; Is it time to update your lab ?

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Justin Paul | 36 Comments

This week at HP Discover a new MicroServer was unveiled. It was billed as a server for the really small SMB or for a college dorm or home server even. However if you search around for virtualization home labs you…

Trying out Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Wireless @ Home

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Josh Kittle | 4 Comments

Now let me start by saying, as my Twitter handle @ciscovoicedude implies, that yes I’m a bit of a Cisco fanboy, and disclaimer – I work for a Cisco partner. I’ve been using Cisco technology since the dinosaurs roamed the…

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 Book Review

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

A couple of months ago Packt asked if I would do a technical review of a VMware View book for them written by Jason Ventresco. Jason is a blogger and and active twitter-er (is that a word?), check out his…

VMware Support Workflow Document

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Recently I was promoted to Principal Architect at DPSciences, basically this means that while I may still do some installs, my main task is to make sure that projects go as smoothly as possible while also making support and any…

Storage Field Day 3 Recap

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

So this week I spent Tuesday-Friday in Denver Colorado with Steve Foskett and the Tech Field Day crew for their Storage Field Day 3 event. There were 14 bloggers from all around the world who came to hear from 9…

Veeam V7 vCloud Director Preview

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring you a preview of some of the new technology. This…

My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2