I recently configured a suite of disaster recovery (DR) mechanisms on a cloud platform delivering a business-critical web portal. This mechanism utilizes an HTTP health check to monitor DR targets – in this case, service ports on firewalls in separate… Read More ›
IT Philosopher
The Power of “I Don’t Know”.
I recently sat through a conference call with a vendor in which he faced some gentle but legitimate pointed questioning. The issue was this: It wasn’t clear that we were getting much for our money from one aspect of their… Read More ›
On Being a High-Performance “Contender”
I recently saw the movie “On the Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando. It was a phenomenal movie and I can undersand why it’s considered a classic. In it, Brando’s character delivers his famous line: “I coulda been a contender!” He had… Read More ›