Monitor Madness

October 17, 2010

I started writing this article about eight months ago in February of 2010.  Back then (yeah, it seems like a very long time ago), it was almost impossible to find any distributor that had decent monitors available.  Everything was backordered and taking weeks or months to arrive.  Like a lot of companies, we were being pushed […]

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Throw out your VPN – time to move to Juniper SSL VPN

October 17, 2010

If you are running a dial-up VPN network, you know the nightmares about security, maintenance and the inevitable end-user problems from travelers. No matter how much time and effort you put into building that part of the network, it always becomes an source of irritation and constant frustration.

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Building a Green Server Room – Push Air Where You Need It

April 24, 2010

Having optimized my air flow situation in the server room, the next step was to get that cold air into the servers.  I have never been a fan or believer of using cabinet blanks to block off air-flow because I always thought that having air move through and around servers served a good purpose.  Most […]

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Lenovo S10-3t Netbook

April 10, 2010

We have decided to look at a few netbook computers for our employees that do a lot of travelling.  While everyone currently has a notebook, the frequent flying executives and some others would prefer something smaller.  Knowing that most of them use Windows, but have iPhones, I thought our first test would be with a tablet […]

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HP Procurve MSM410 – Our Wireless Winner

March 22, 2010

I have been writing about our difficulty in trying to find a reliable, manageable and secure wireless networking access point for our company. After failures with Cisco and Bluesocket, I was beginning to think that there were really no enterprise-class devices around anymore.  We checked out Netgear, DLink, Motorola and 3Com, but nothing stood out.  Finally, […]

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Building a Green Server Room – Optimizing Air Flow

March 8, 2010

I thought I had done the best I could with optimizing our small server room.  We have two rows of server cabinets which hold all of our servers, file systems and management devices.  I arranged the cabinets so that both rows had the servers facing toward the aisle between them.  My reasoning was that it would […]

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