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CYB3RCRIM3 Reading
Call me crazy, but I really love reading legal analysis at CYB3RCRIM3. I discovered the site via an OPML file passed to me by a friend in the security industry. Thanks Devon! I can see how the walls of text might not be appealing, but the material is great. Legal writing is just so different; almost formulaic…
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Nutanix and UC – Part 3: Cisco UC on Nutanix
In the previous posts we covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix as well as Cisco’s requirements for UC virtualization. To quickly summarize… Nutanix is a virtualization platform that provides compute and storage in a way that is fault tolerant and scalable. Cisco UC provides a VMware centric virtualized VoIP collaboration suite that allows clients…
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Nutanix and UC – Part 2: Cisco Virtualization Requirements
In the last post I covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix. In this post I’ll cover UC performance and virtualization requirements. A scary part of virtualizing Cisco Unified Communications is worrying about being fully supported by Cisco TAC if a non-standard deployment path is chosen. This is due to a long history of…
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Nutanix and UC – Part 1: Introduction and Overview
I’ll be publishing a series of blog posts outlining Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix. At the end of this series I hope to have addressed any potential concerns running Cisco UC and Nutanix and provided all the tools for a successful deployment. Your comments are welcome and encouraged. Let’s start at the beginning, a very good…
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Nutanix and Unified Communications
The past week has been a whirlwind of studying, research, and introductions now that I’ve started at Nutanix! I’m happy to be on the team working on Reference Architectures for Unified Communications. I’m planning to investigate the major Unified Communications platforms (VoIP, Voice Messaging, IM & Presence, E911) from the top vendors and come up…
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Motorcycle Weekend – Myrtle Beach and Wright Brothers
I spent the weekend riding the motorcycle to Myrtle Beach SC to spend some time with my sister Amanda. I took a route directly to her place, but today took a pretty long road home to visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial and tour some scenic NC coast. The bridges were awesome to cross. The burned…
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Thanks to Heather Rowles I started reading the EXCEPTIONALLY AWESOME Daughter of Smoke & Bone series by Laini Taylor. This book is classified as Young Adult Fiction but I don’t know if that’s fair. I heard a comedian (Colbert?) say “Young Adult is just a term for books that people ACTUALLY read.” That seems about right to…
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OpenID Connect
At work I’ve been doing a ton of Single Sign On, SAML, and certificate based authentication. I wanted to try that out for my own personal use. It turned out to be much easier than I expected. I’ve already blogged here about updating my site certificates using StartCom SSL. Another free service they offer is…
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Audio Books
Last week I read “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow. The overall story was a good read. There were some bits that were mostly the author writing some exposition on a piece of tech he was interested in. The thing that made it hardest to read was the brutal treatment the protagonist received at the hands of…
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Plane Travel Plus Kindle
I think one of my favorite parts of the Park City trip was the new FAA regulations on portable electronic devices. We took Delta and were instructed that we could use our portable electronic devices during all phases of flight. I used my Kindle Paperwhite to read the HELL out of Caliban’s War which is the…