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Webinar – Intrusion Prevention System in Kerio Control.

12:01 am on September 10, 2010


This is from a Kerio Newsletter this week and is relevant to all Aussies given the timezone :-) Thought I’d share it in case you missed it.

Thursday | September 23, 2010 | 10:00AM Australia EST
Kerio Control is a new unified threat management solution for small and medium organizations. The new Intrusion Prevention System in Kerio Co...
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Stampede to the Cloud – Are you “All in for the cloud”?

3:00 pm on September 9, 2010

Tim Barret from NoGeekLeftbehind has done it again with his latest instalment of “Have you rebooted yet?”

Tim gets to what I think is the root of the Cloud Movement and nails it big time.

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StorageCraft… HIR Discussions… WOW…

2:00 am on September 9, 2010

Ok – today is the start of day 2 here with the StorageCraft in the USA… “my brain hurts” does not even begin to describe the awe I feel at being surrounded by the team here in the USA.  Don’t get me wrong… Jack Alsop is giving the team here a run for their money which is great, but the level of discussion going on is amazing.  Round the table right now we have Andrew aka ...
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How to hack your network.

6:32 pm on September 8, 2010

Are you going to SMBNation this year in Las Vegas?  If not then you will miss out on a session from Security MVP Dana Epp on how to hack your network.  Dana is well known in the SMB space as a security guru and as a friend I know lots more about him that makes me say “wow” all th...
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SMBNation – ThirdTier Pre Day – Hyper-V Mythbusters

6:59 am on September 3, 2010

exploding-brain Ok – don’t say I didn’t warn you, but when you get the likes of Eriq Neale, Dave Shackelford, Cliff Gailher and myself together for a ...
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Are you running Windows Server 2008 SP2 yet?

2:55 pm on September 2, 2010

Straight up question – no matter if you are on SBS 2008 or not, if you are not yet running Service Pack 2 on your Windows Server 2008 installation you should get moving and upgrade to it. 

Why?  Because it fixes so many issues that affect other third party products and the stability of your server.  Take the biggest example is the TDI Driver fix Read more

Give me feedback on StorageCraft ShadowProtect

6:44 am on September 2, 2010

As part of my new role with StorageCraft, I’m heading to the USA on Saturday to spend a week with the team in Salt Lake City (my first visit to this place).  I’ll be talking to everyone I can from the CEO down to the guys on the support desk.  I’ve got my own thoughts on what they do well, and what they can improve on w...
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Trend Micro WFBS 7.0 Preview and Training – Australia

4:05 pm on August 31, 2010

In case you’ve missed the direct announcements from Trend Micro Australia, make sure you register and come along to the WFBS 7.0 event later this week in North Ryde.  It’s on September 2nd at Trends offices – details and registration for the event are Read more

Travel Tips for the Frequent Traveller

6:00 am on August 30, 2010

I travel a lot in my job – sometimes seeing multiple cities, multiple times in the same week.  So it’s certainly something that I’ve become accustomed to and am quite proficient at.  Here’s some of the technology that I travel with and why. The photo below shows you some of the technology laid out on the table.

 

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Truth in Marketing brought to you by VARTruth

7:09 am on August 26, 2010

Harry Brelsford from SMBNation put me onto this youtube channel run by someone called VARTruth.  The question is who the heck is VARTruth and what are they talking about… well as someone who’s been in the SMB IT community for some time now, I think that it’s pretty clear that some of these videos are about some of the...
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