Here is an overview of the Home networking lab setup. You might ask why even have a home lab these days? You can build a fairly grown up enterprise grade topology using virtualization? Agreed, especially if you have high spec workstation or choose a cloud provider for the compute. Why I built a home lab
I was approached recently by friend requesting some help with a very difficult situation. A member of their family had sadly passed away. The deceased was a husband and father of two young children. My friend was trying to assist the wife of the deceased with various financial issues that arise when a someone passes away. The
Solarwinds posted something on twitter recently, a picture of a T-Shirt which had printed “I find your lack of backups disturbing”. Being a star wars fan myself this did make me chuckle. I don’t have a great deal of experience with storage other than providing connectivity for storage platforms to the network. Since a recent
I recently replaced my faithful and much loved Toyota Celica with a Lexus IS 250. The Celica had a manual gear box, a noisy but superb 1.8L VVTi ‘with lift’ engine which was naturally aspirated (no turbo). At 190 BHP the engine delivered over 100BHP per Litre of engine capacity which put’s some higher priced
I’ve owned 3 Thinkpads over the last decade. My first one was the original IBM Thinkpad, the last two were Lenovo branded. All three I’ve owned have been the X series aimed at the road warrior professional with demands for high performance computing in a small and lightweight device. I chose and have so far
How do you stay current in the ever changing IT industry? Well, its time consuming. Working as a self employed consultant I need to stay current and skilled up. How as engineers can we design / implement complex network architectures using design best practices if you don’t keep your knowledge current? What do I do
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