This story makes an understated point for us managing medical education and research networks. While we may not operate or support the sys...

The original itManageCast podcast is back online! This interview was recorded a few years ago when one of Vivit's "best & bri...

While technically the iPad isn't even available in my neck of the woods yet, that hasn't stopped enterprising Canucks who live near ...

Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn ... all words that can make the IT manager's skin crawl. The simple solution is to block the URLs at the ...

A critical cumulative security update for MS Internet Explorer was released yesterday (March 30) as noted in security bulletin MS10-018 . ...

#1 Antiviral Products Move Away from Local Signatures With the rate that variants of viri, trojans, and other attacks are coming out (approx...

Trends in Network Management are understandably driven by the trends in network architecture. Network architecture tends to be viewed as mo...

I helped set up the Vivit booth with other local chapter leaders and the board of directors, grabbed a really quick (but heavy!) breakfast, ...

We've all done it at least once. Ideally, you only do it once. You get caught in a moment when you are "up-to-your-eyeballs" w...

I've started to evaluate the software CMDB solutions from various vendors - HP, BMC, and IBM to start with. I'll be posting the fin...

Everyone wants to be responsible about their energy consumption, and while from a corporate perspective, it looks great in press releases an...

St. Patrick's Day finds me back in New Orleans, and back at the HP Software Partner Enablement Galaxy (PEG) for ramping up my Ops Centre...

Wow, I'm bad at updating this blog. :-) That's got to be annoying for the 2 people who read it. On the plus side, there's lots ...

What is a heterogeneous environment? Well, what it's not is a the place where a really smart straight guy lives. What I'm getting a...