Mick's IT Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. At one point, I was contacted 16 times within two weeks from their 909-259-0292 number. Sometimes I have gotten their 404 area code. Micks IT Blogs.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

I’ve been phenomenally lucky to be involved in a number of book projects around VMware vSphere. Even though that book hasn’t sold as many units as the Mastering books, it’s a work of which I’m equally proud. Some Technical Books I’m Reading. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve known and respected and learned from Peter for years, and excited to have him share some of his insights with our readers here. Working at Oracle that October, I hear about Mosaic and interview for a position that same month. Recognizing it as an opportunity of a lifetime, I move. Month 25: The Launch.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 20, 2013

Taking a page from my years in quantitative research, I submit this definition ( based on this definition ): A construct is a mental abstraction used to express an idea, object or any other ‘item’ (could be people, organizations, etc.). If I were to answer the question, I’d say “both”. Big Data is a reality.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 23, 2013

Shortly after I published Technology Short Take #27 , a reader asked me on Twitter how I managed the information that goes into each Technology Short Take (TST) article. Although I’ve blogged about my productivity setup before, that post is now over two years old and horribly out of date. The Consumption Layer.

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Mick's IT Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Once the reporting services page comes up, you can now click on ConfigMgr_SCM to access the page. Micks IT Blogs. Micks IT Blogs. 0 Comments.

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A CIO's Voice

APRIL 19, 2013

I have been in information technology for more than 15 years now; to this day I am still amazed by some of the issues end users call helpdesk about. User – “I cannot my desktop on my monitor. I see a green light and now my desktop appears.”. User – “I see it flash but no sound.” It says page cannot be displayed.”

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 1, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 She thinks, "Its just a couple of tables and I already have MS Access on my desktop", so this shouldnt be too hard.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 19, 2013

It described how a couple had bought their dream home after finding it on the Facebook page of a real estate agent. They arranged to inspect it immediately after it appeared on the page and bought it the next day, before the for-sale sign had been put up in the yard. It’s a completely different mentality.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 17, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 I also have some misses. I thought cloud computing was just glorified hosting. Monday, June 17, 2013.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 2, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 These are the things I think about in the days heading into summer vacations. and business transformation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I have to say I have a personal interest in this. The Wikipedia article is also syndicated so that, for example, it is referenced on the first page of Google results when you search for my name. When I am introduced for media appearances or keynotes, I am surprised how often people quote the Wikipedia article.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 14, 2013

Initially I didnt see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere. as I became more and more absorbed by the power of Web 2.0. increased, I began to understand the uniqueness of my personal. As my on-line network grew, I then realized that a blog is not. So today, I start my. Popular Pages. interactions.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

So far, it’s been everything that I thought it would be—exciting, but also challenging. I was pleased to find that the time and effort I’d spent familiarizing myself with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch (OVS) proved quite useful in hitting the ground running with NVP. That’s pretty exciting.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

3 comments: Anonymous April 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM I almost never drop responses, but after looking at a few of the responses on "Demystifying PaaS for Federal Government" I actually do have 2 questions for you if you do not mind. P And, if you are posting at additional places, I'd like to keep up with you.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 10, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 I have a broad definition of dark data and more expansive then some posts that Ive found -. Follow @nyike.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

This week I will have the honor of attending the 2013 NNEC Conference at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. I have been using cloud services for over a month now and I am very impressed with it. I use it as a Back Up & Recovery tool. Popular Pages. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2013

I’m very excited to announce the inaugural OpenStack Denver meetup , scheduled for 7 PM on Wednesday, January 9, 2013—only 6 days away! If you haven’t already joined the meetup group, please head over to the group page on Meetup.com and join, then RSVP for the inaugural OpenStack Denver meeting. See you there!

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Recently, I predicted that in 2013, cloud computing will provide the biggest disruption information technology has experienced in 25 years. Popular Pages. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. GovCloud Daily.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. To reduce complexity NVMKV eliminates the need to continually convert native key-value I/O to block I/O used in disk storage.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 16, 2013

In previous articles, I’ve shown you how to compile libvirt 0.10.1 In this post, I’ll show you how to rebuild a source RPM for libvirt 1.0.1 too, but I haven’t tested them.). The CentOS wiki has a great page for how to set up an RPM build environment. so that it will install (and work) under CentOS 6.3.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Jeff Barr did an excellent job running through the service on his blog and you can also check out the detail page. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Comments ().

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. Social, Agile, and Transformation. and business transformation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 23, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 If youre looking for a tool, I would suggest reading, downloading, and experimenting. Follow @nyike.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I am wondering if Cisco’s ACI Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution is vaporware. This is where I start to see trails of vapor. Here’s the list of components that make of Cisco ACI architecture according to Cisco’s product page. I think Cisco’s ACI strategy is a great concept. Let’s take a look. Don’t get me wrong.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 29, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 In this post, I will share some examples of Discovery, Quality, and Dashboard Visualizations. Follow @nyike.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 11, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 One of the questions I sometimes get on Agile Delivery is on computing actual costs. Monday, March 11, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 22, 2013

Don’t worry—I’ll tie it into something else very soon. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Mock to build RPMs for libssh2 1.4.1 The information in this post is based on information found in two other very helpful pages: Using Mock to test package builds. for CentOS 6.3 , this post might seem a bit odd.

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Linux Groups Tools Storage 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This year at VMworld, I wasn’t in any of the breakout sessions because employees aren’t allowed to register for breakout sessions in advance; we have to wait in the standby line to see if we can get in at the last minute. Here’s the write-up on some of the vendor meetings I’ve attended while in San Francisco.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 22, 2013

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Mock to build RPMs for sanlock 2.4 The information in this post is based on information found in two other very helpful pages: Using Mock to test package builds. I tested these instructions on a newly-built CentOS 6.3 I tested these instructions on a newly-built CentOS 6.3

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A CIO's Voice

JUNE 14, 2013

Like all parents my wife and I had the very lengthy discussions on what to name our son when we found out he was a boy. I was indifferent. I did not want a name starting with the letter ‘A’ or a long name. A 40 year old man named “Tiny” or paging “Dr. This was a very arduous task both opposing opinions and armies.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 2, 2013

I know I’ve poked fun at Yahoo! in the past but don’t get me wrong, for Cloud computing professionals I believe they are one of the most exciting places to work. I don’t believe Marissa will have a shortage of eager candidates applying to fill the role. ’s home page.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 1, 2013

Spousetivities originated out of boredom, essentially—Crystal was traveling with me to VMworld and wanted to find someone to hang out with while I was at the conference. Regular readers of this site know that my wife, Crystal, runs something called Spousetivities. It is truly a “win-win” for everyone involved.

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CIO Musings

MAY 26, 2013

High school English teacher in Georgia is suspended without pay when school administrators receive anonymous complaints regarding objectionable content on her Facebook page including drinking and other activities. Although I work for a government entity, my opinions are my own and do not reflect on my employer. Barry Condrey.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Although typically innocent in nature, I always cringe at the thought of enduring yet another hours long discussion over the existence of a "cloud computing business model". With this in mind, you can understand the joy I experienced when I read an advance copy of "Deconstructing Cloud" by Andrea Bilobrk. Popular Pages.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 22, 2013

help I&O leaders apply authoritative thinking, leading-edge. strategies and tactical best practices to their enterprise I&O. Popular Pages. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. GovCloud Daily.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

As always, I hope you find something useful here. Looks like this is another tool I need to add to my toolbox as I continue to explore networking technologies like OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and others. I’m a CLI fan, so I like this sort of stuff. Networking. Who out there has played around with Mininet yet?

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