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WAN Network Paradigm Shift
For a lot of places in the rural US, the only game in town for WAN connectivity is the local telephone company, know in the business as the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier). Even if you didn’t...
View ArticleCFITS – Good stuff from Xiotech & Cisco
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being one of four speakers at the network storage event sponsored by the CFITS (Central Florida Information Technology Society). All four presentations have been put...
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A Scalable E-Mail Architecture
According to a study done last year by Forrester Research nearly half large enterprise are “evaluating alternative options for managing and providing email”. Why? It’s relatively easy to build a...
View ArticleGliffy Cloud Based Visio Replacement
No job is complete until the documentation is done. That is just as relevant in corporate world as it is in consulting (and often just as ignored by some **ahem**). The de facto standard for...
View ArticleTeamwork
Often part of the magic of working in fast paced environment is the people that you work with. Below is a true story about one of those moments. I hope you have as much fun reading as we had doing....
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Highly Available & Scalable MySQL
A majority of dynamically created websites on the web today are backended* by MySQL. Even though NoSQL solutions like project voldemort are all the rage, for a majority of people not doing Facebook...
View ArticleIPCop
A surprising number of small businesses have connected their office networks to the Internet with consumer grade NAT routers. These devices are inexpensive and easy to setup, but they lack features...
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The Dark Side of Virtualization (A unique attack vector)
Most system administrators look at virtual servers such as Amazon’s EC2 or RackSpace’s Cloud Servers as a boon to IT, a way to scale to meet problems quickly, easily, and less expensively. Server...
View ArticleCentralized Security With iptables & fail2ban
Background: In today’s current environment it’s not unusual to see log files filled with thousands of entries for failed logins. Botnets, compromised servers, and even foreign governments are...
View ArticleFeeding on misery
The number one hook in most of the targeted malicious SPAM I’m seeing lately has to do with jobs. Either fake “responses” to a resume/CV, or offers of employment. With the US official unemployment...
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