What is that? Its Bring Your Own Device. That is the latest trend in end user computing. Instead of the company purchasing the computer for you, you use the allocated amount to buy the device or you supply it. It is…
Certifications and you.
Have you checked what is the state of your IT certifications? Ok, now have you checked what is the market expectations of your IT certifications? That is not so easy, right? Employers are now expecting all project managers to be…
ITIL
When started in the IT industry, certain things were niggling me. Like what was the best practice for running an IT operations. In the pre Yahoo days, there simply none to be found. With the advent of search engines, learning…
Class projects
You take night classes and the homework is to research on a company and do a group presentation. The team sit down, trash out the issues, chopped up the action items and do up a schedule. The next time you…
Did you change the settings?
Way back in the days of Wordstar, I used to reconfigure nearly every option, colors, backspace buffer, highlights etc. It was really easy, all the settings is in just one file. The single program instance helps a lot. When I…
Backup your data
This is the most basic and important operational task. All data should be backed up as frequently as possible. This is to protect against logical data corruption or data loss. The server’s hard disk is protected by RAID 5, but…
The importance of the domain controller
The first step of any site disaster recovery (DR) is the recovery of the domain controller. This server holds all the user and service accounts and controls the rest of the servers. Without it, the entire IT infrastructure won’t really…
Practical disaster recovery plans
I thought I share some tips on creating a practical disaster recovery plan. Most people has a misconception that such plans are large complex and ultimately expensive. Well I am going to show you how you can have a practical…
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SQL 2005 cluster upgrade.
The main SQL server is on a SQL 2005 cluster. It is time for an upgrade to SQL 2008. This will be an interim measure until the hardware refresh the later half of 2012. The main aim of the process is…