“Old ‘n Busted” vs. “New Hotness” Laptops
I confess I was a bit frugal even before we moved to Maine seven years ago, but I’d like to think of myself as “value conscious” and not “price sensitive.” So when it came time to think about replacing...
View ArticleBP’s Gulf Oil Spill and IT Best Practices
BP’s oil spill is horrific of course, but there are a number of “lessons learned” which are very applicable to the way technology is managed. Documentation. We are all guilty of a sick laugh over the...
View ArticleMedical Internet Marketing Conference – October 29-30, Boston
The wonderful standard “Take the A Train” is a terrific example of early social media marketing. Although originally crafted as a result of directions Duke Ellington gave Billy Strayhorn to get to his...
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Zimbra vs. Dropbox and Evernote; Security and Privacy Policies
Challenges: Ease of Use vs. Security Dropbox and Evernote are very easy to use and have enjoyed fairly broad market adoption. Two issues we have with Dropbox are their security (all customer files were...
View ArticleClient Update – Ch… Ch… Ch… Changes
Reliable Networks was born nine years ago as a vision of what, as a then CIO of a global corporate trading company, would comprise my ideal technology managed services provider. Over that time, as...
View ArticleNYC Cloud Computing Expo Roundup
This week, along with several thousand other attendees, I came to what is billed as the largest Cloud expo on the east coast for four days. Despite the sessions being fairly vendor heavy, there were a...
View ArticleCarrier-Diverse Internet Connectivity – Cheap Insurance for the Cloud
We signed up yet another client to our SSD-SAN-backed Private Cloud today to host their line-of-business application servers, and while they were faxing in the signed contract several of our smaller...
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Is Zimbra 8 Ready For Prime Time?
Two weeks ago, after an extensive public beta, Zimbra released Zimbra Server 8 as GA. At the same time, Zimbra also released 7.2.1. There was no release of 7.1.5 even though Zimbra quietly released a...
View ArticleSNW Fall 2012
Next month I’ll be presenting “Understanding SAN and Storage Constraints In Private Clouds” at the SNW Fall 2012 conference in Santa Clara. Held from October 16 through October 19, SNW Fall 2012 is a...
View ArticleSAN Failures: “The Way Life Should Be”
As an ex-New Yorker who has traveled to Maine for decades (and has now lived here for nearly a decade), I have always taken comfort from the sign on I-95 which greets motorists entering Maine from New...
View ArticleHow To Stop Hating Your Internet Service Provider
“The Internet’s down again!” Such is the rallying cry heard in offices across America daily. And then the words we can’t repeat in polite company are used as adjectives to be paired with the corporate...
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OS X Mavericks Subtle Security Tweak
In Corporate America, a computer’s Lock Screen or screensaver feature is often used as a security feature. Either with a few keystrokes or just enough idle time, a workstation will lock itself, clear...
View ArticleZimbra MySQL Tuning for Large Deployments
Zimbra contains a number of databases to speed up things like attachment indexing, but MySQL is one of the most important. In Zimbra, MySQL is a separate instance on every mailbox server used to hold...
View ArticlePlan To Upgrade Zimbra to 7.2.5/8.0.5 Sooner Rather Than Later
Zimbra versions 7.2.5 and 8.0.5 look to be released before the end of September, and we have been following the Zimbra bugzilla issue tracking system closely in anticipation. These companion releases...
View ArticleSpam, Spam, Spam, Spam… (Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam!)
Monty Python references notwithstanding, in the past few weeks we have seen an extraordinarily major increase in the amount of spam hitting our and our clients’ mail servers — and it’s been anything...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things Isn’t Ready; Where’s My 100,000-Mile Technology?
Exploding Pintos and Physics Gone Wrong If you have some gray hairs like me, you remember a time when cars barely made 30,000 miles before requiring extensive and expensive repairs and maintenance....
View ArticleZimbra 8.7.0 – Fine for New Smaller Installs; Wait A Little Longer Though To...
We really like Zimbra 8.7.0. It’s been in the works for a long time and has gone through a huge amount of QA. The fix list is impressive and our experience has been that it’s rock solid in smaller...
View ArticleZimbra Commit Conference – New York City March 21 -23
Zimbra is holding a developers’ conference next week in NYC (we’ll be there!) and the Zeta Alliance are building a list of bugs for the Thursday Bug Bash marathon. As a Zimbra hosting provider, we’ve...
View ArticleZimbra NYC Commit Wrap Up
Two weeks ago I was in NYC for a few days attending Zimbra NYC Commit, a summit ostensibly for the Open Source community but also for Zimbra Partners. Now that I’ve had a chance to catch up I wanted to...
View ArticleThe Case For Carrier-Diverse Redundant Internet
As more and more applications and data move to a Cloud environment, it becomes increasingly important to deploy carrier-diverse redundant Internet in one’s offices, along with a firewall/router that...
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