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Kublr 1.11 Enhances Kubernetes Deployments in Multiple Environments

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

New functionality empowers enterprises with greater automation and control; to be showcased in a live demo at KubeCon + Cloud Native North America

Nutanix Acropolis adding Cloud Native stack

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Initial Press Release: KubeCon 2018 – Seattle, Wa — Nutanix Cloud Native delivers reliable, automated, secure, and efficient services for developers on the private cloud and is powered by leading hyper-converged platform, Nutanix Acropolis. Bringing open source tooling and automation experience…

Quick Start Guide to CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

It has been a few years since my first look at CloudBerry Backup. Back then it was called CloudBerry Online Backup, it’s now called Windows Desktop Cloud Backup. (Server backup is similar but a separate product.) To bring you up…

Azure DevOps – Never manually create a Docker container again!

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Azure DevOps is a suite of offerings from Microsoft that aims to help companies deliver better software faster. They have a great article on “what is DevOps” here. But why am I using DevOps? You may be asking yourself, why…

Importing a GitHub Repo to Azure DevOps Repo

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Microsoft recently re-branded Virtual Studio Team Services into Azure DevOps. With it came a face-lift and some great new features. I have been using GitHub for my zPlanner project, and recently thought it would be cool to take advantage of…

Finally, a geek travel router I love!

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

My ideal travel router I’ve been kicking around the idea of building a small travel router out of a Raspberry Pi or an Asus Tinkerboard for a while. My ideal product would be something that can connect to an upstream ISP…

In 16 months Windows and SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 will no longer be supported, what’s your plan?

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Let’s not kid each other, you or someone you know is still running Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, or SQL 2008, 2008 R2 in production. I’m not trying to say you (or them) are a bad I.T. person because of…

Serial Consoles FTW like its 1978!

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

A little history If you’re older than me I need not explain what a serial console is, but if you are younger than me then let me give you a little background information. Back in the day, they needed a way…

The Secret Sauce Behind zPlanner

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

zPlanner is a replication planning tool that analyzes VMware virtual machine storage patterns and helps plan for replication to the public cloud (or other disaster recovery locations). If you want to learn more about what zPlanner is, then check out the first…

zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

What is zPlanner? Project goals As more and more companies make the decision to explore public cloud it has become very important to be able to gather statistical data from those workloads and analyze it for things like change rate,…

Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

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