How to boot from iSCSI on an Intel x-520 mezzanine card (Dell Blades).
So I recently came across a situation where we wanted to boot a blade off of an EqualLogic SAN via the installed Intel X-520 10gbe mezzanine cards. With Broadcom it’s easy, you just enable iSCSI boot to Broadcom in the BIOS, and set it up in the CTRL-S bios setup. There is no equivalent option […]
Mobile Security Topics – Highlights from a Recent Speaking Event
Recently I was asked by a client to attend the annual Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) in Las Vegas to speak about mobile device security in the workplace. This event is attended by hundreds of lawyers each year who represent the trucking industry in various capacities. With the workforce steadily becoming more mobile and conducting a […]
City of London Spending – Jan 2011 to September 2011
It’s always interesting to see where government is spending so here’s some data on a platter…
Nato Operations in Libya – The Guardian
I’m not a great fan of infographics, they don’t assist the viewer in understanding the core story being told, so here’s my alternative version of a Guardian produced infographic. See below for the original: Although pretty and colourful does it make it easy to understand the purpose of the data and compare the various countries […]
Astaro Hardware Appliances – This Networking Technician’s first impressions
Just recently my company decided to shift our networking hardware sales and implementation to Astaro Security Solutions. For the last several years we have been strong supporters of SonicWall firewalls. SonicWall has offered nearly all of the solutions Interworks needed to facilitate solutions over the years. We do IT Support for a wide array of […]
Extreme Viz Makeover: CDC’s Alcohol Use Among Women
In August, the CDC published some data and charts related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Included was the following map breaking down alcohol use and binge drinking by state: View Dashboard The chart contains all the relevant information, but is less helpful than the typical excel spreadsheet. The visuals do little to assist us […]
Works Management Article, “Clever Business,” Mentions Dan Murray of InterWorks
Works Management (WM), the voice of UK manufacturing, provides a forum for the process management and improvement industry to exchange views on business improvement. WM interviews the industry’s leading strategic thinkers behind manufacturing in the UK and brings to light how business intelligence and process management can drastically improve business management and the bottom line. […]
To the point
At the recent Tableau Customer Conference (more on this later) one of the many excellent sessions I sat in on was Tips and Tricks From The Wild. Last up was the Tableau jedi, Joe Mako (@joemako or on Google+). Within the Tableau community Joe is famed and respected for his ability to see straight to […]
Finding and removing files older than X days
I recently had to find out a way to cleanup files in a folder that was growing based upon the date that they were originally created. These log files needed to be kept for 3-4 months in case they need to be reviewed for verification. Unfortunately there was a huge amount of files in the […]
Bulk VMware Snapshot Management/Removal with PowerCLI
We utilize Veeam’s Backup & Replication product for local backups as well as offsite DR replication. The software is overall very good, but can have some quirks if things don’t go as planned. One issue we hit is longer-running replica jobs might conflict with local jobs, causing jobs to fail, and snapshots to get locked […]
