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XP Cheats Death? Respite from the XPocalypse?
XP may have cheated death just over a month after its reported demise, according to The Register. The loophole at play here is that M$ is still supporting XP-based cash registers (called Windows...
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25 free tools for every Windows desktop
Cool tools from Woody Leonard and InfoWorld: “Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop“
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Apple Announces “Apple Pay”
Apple held their widely anticipated annual fall extravaganza yesterday. If you had an Apple device and used Safari, you could watch it live as Apple redirected their site to the live stream feed;...
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The End of the SAN?
So after years of pushing shared storage devices to support clustered hosts of virtual machines, VMware now says the future of storage is direct-attached SDS (software-defined storage). Their new...
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SDS Dumbed Down
For a myriad of reasons, this week I have been thinking about software-defined storage, aka SDS. I haven’t really thought about it since I learned of VMware’s vSAN offering discussed here. At the time,...
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Containers in the WSJ
It’s interesting to watch the venerable and respected WSJ to struggle with abstract technical concepts like “Containers” — “Software Firms Scramble to Jump Into Containers” (I recall a similar attempt...
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iSCSI in da house!
All these years I have been SANless. I almost bought a Synology unit many times, but I kept putting it off because of the expense. I am after all a hands-off IT manager-type by profession now and it’s...
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OneDrive delivers unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers
From M$’ OneDrive blog…. Today, storage limits just became a thing of the past with Office 365. Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. We’ve...
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MBPr Still Tops
PCMag’s 10 Best Laptops just came out again. The MacBook Pro still tops the list as the Editor’s Choice of Editors Choices. The $1189 intro price is still misleading because (1) it’s really not...
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Windows Nano Server
On the Technet Windows Server blog this week, M$ announced the Nano Server version (code name Tuva) of the new Windows Server 2016 which is even more stripped down than Server Core version of 2012R2....
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