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I recently saw a news article about StartCom being on Mozilla and Google's naughty list. Things looked bad, and my StartCom certs were up for renewal on the blog. I have seen articles flying around about Let's Encrypt for a while now. The idea seemed awesome,
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In my last blog post I talked about networking with Open vSwitch in the Nutanix hypervisor, AHV. Today I'm happy to announce the continuation of that initial post - the Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide. Nutanix introduced the concept of AHV, based on the open source Linux KVM
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I wanted to share a bit of cool "value add" today, as my sales and marketing guys would call it. This is just one of the things for Avaya Aura and UC in general that a Nutanix deployment can bring to the table. Nutanix has the concept of
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The Avaya Technology Forum in Orlando was a great success! Thanks to everyone who attended and showed interest in Nutanix by stopping at the booth. I met a lot of interested potential customers and partners and was also able to learn more about what people are virtualizing these days. There
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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Woah - why didn't anyone tell me I could replace https:// or http:// with JUST // to preserve the protocol on the current page? I didn't know about it until I saw YouTube embed links using it. This is amazing news. I'll have to go
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I've been flailing around trying to figure out how trading BitCoins works. I haven't really DONE any trading - but check out these crazy graphs over at BitCoinWisdom.com. There is so much going on. Click on all the things. You'll see.
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To improve privacy and security HTTPS should be used everywhere. It SHOULD be the default option. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Even worse, you have no idea what the browser is doing behind your back. For instance – this site you’re reading now is going off and contacting