When tasked to automate a task, I rely on my scripting background to get the job done. Back then, it was all VBScript. Now that more and more customers are moving to Windows Server 2008 servers, I try to convince my customers to use PowerShell for all their scripting needs. A few weeks back, a […]
In my previous blog post, I talked about high availablity and disaster recovery (HADR) and how it is more than just the underlying technology that keeps the entire strategy intact. In this blog post, I’ll describe a few acronyms – sometimes called buzzwords – that are commonly referred to in HADR projects and implementations (I […]
While I was at the PASS Summit 2010, I’ve spent a fair amount of time at the Ask-the-Experts table on high availability, disaster recovery and virtualization. Conference attendees with different requirements on high availability and disaster recovery come to these tables and ask questions. I’ve spent a fair amount of time doing high availability and […]
This would be the last blog post before the PASS Summit MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch 2010. I know most, if not all, of the attendees are already in Seatle,WA enjoying the dinner meetups and the 9 C/48 F weather. As I’ve mentioned in my previous blog post, if you’re attending the Birds of […]
Remember Neo? The guy who disturbed the order of the matrix? He had dreams of being given instructions to follow the white rabbit to figure out the answer to the question, “What is the Matrix?” Later in the film, he finds a woman with a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. And, then, […]