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[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson One organization Chris Bevil worked with had a genuinely good disaster recovery program. Tabletop exercises, tested runbooks, the whole thing. When …
[ Tech field day ] 7 min read
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” — Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass (1871) I’ve lost count of how many storage conversations I’ve sat through where immutability …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated …
[ Security ] 4 min read
If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and …
[ Tech field day ] 5 min read
I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding. Many companies have product offerings in the security space, focusing exclusively on the data integrity and …
[ Tech field day ] 3 min read
In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time. Overseeing an IT organization requires you to think …
[ Networking ] 5 min read
One of the things that I am called upon to do fairly often in my current role is to configure remote access VPN devices for some site or another. Often these sites are transient in nature, only staying active for weeks …
[ Networking ] 7 min read
One of the nice things about working with Cisco equipment, as opposed to many other brands, is that you truly do get a smorgasbord of features and capabilities. On the flip side of that coin, however, the bad thing about …
[ Networking ] 5 min read
Most of you are probably familiar with the IEEE 802.1x specification, at least in general terms, but are more than likely used to seeing it applied in the context of wireless networks and services. In this multi-part …