I’m not married to the idea of using any product over another. It’s not the branding, how nice it looks or how much it costs (although those things may have an impact) that sways me one way or another. It’s the use of technology. It’s the principle and philosophy of
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I’ve spent the past week installing, configuring, learning and experimenting with Google Home automation. For the most part it has been an easy exercise but it comes with serious frustrations. The frustrations aren’t to do with limitations in the capabilities but rather in the faults and unexpected behavior (and my
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Business Continuity Planning is critical for transactional businesses more-so than non-transactional businesses. What do I mean by “transactional”? If you process things in real time such as sales of products or processing packages for shipment, you are transactional. The reason transactional businesses need to consider business continuity to a greater
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The Australian lawmakers are passing laws that progressively take away privacy of the citizens of this country. The most recent successful attempt to increase the powers of the security agencies focuses in “encrypted message interception” which, in effect forced technology companies to assist security agencies with message interception. Exactly how
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This article extends on a previous article focused on installing and performance testing Gluster on CentOS 7. You can see that article here. Here we’ll be focusing on installing Samba4 and using Gluster as the back-end storage solution. We could use the Gluster FUSE method but Samba4 comes with a
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Gluster is an amazing Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution offered as part of the Redhat solutions portfolio. Here we push Gluster to see how it performs in different circumstances to help you understand the benefits and value of Gluster in your business. You can see the next article in this
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Ansible is a buzz word at the moment. Ever since Redhat purchased Ansible back in 2016, it has been rare to hear about anyone deploying alternative automation systems. Recently Ansible has been commercialized into Ansible Tower allowing a wider audience to take advantage of the benefits of automation. I recently
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Just like with VMWare or Hyper-V, Amazon’s AWS supports snapshots and they make it easy to create them and restore from them. But in true AWS style, they don’t make it obvious how it works. I’m hoping to change that in this article. I’ve used the word “snapshot” but strictly
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Scenario: You’re at home and want to log into the office Intranet to finish up some work. But wait, the Intranet is on your corporate network and you’re at home. Sure you can use your corporate VPN – if you have one and can remember the credentials. If not, consider
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All businesses need a way to induct their new staff into the business. So far it’s either paper based, computer based or purely verbal. This article is for those that want to use a computer based system. Here’s an important tip. If you’re going to use an LMS (learning management
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