Couple of weeks ago I was preparing a demo lab for a technology event held by my company here in San Marino and I had to join a couple of NetApp filers to an Active Directory environment. The process itself is very simple but there are a couple of things to keep in mind regarding the time so I thought it would be nice to share them. Before starting, here’s a bit of background on why clock is very important: Active Directory authentication is based on a protocol called Kerberos, which use a ticketing system to grant access, the system…
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Traveling advices for European people visiting the US
Months ago I found this nice article from Bas Raayman in which he gives some important advices to everyone is visiting US from EU, with things like cellphone coverage and roaming charges and I thought I could add something on the topic. I travel to the US quite often (obviously by my standards which involves a transatlantic trip 2/3 times a year, mostly in Minnesota and Georgia, and after spending time immersed in American culture I think I know a thing or two about the do’s and dont’s when you’re abroad. Let’s start with a couple of topics: AIRFARE Unless…
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links for 2010-07-26
Hitachi Data Systems: A storage giant lost in translation A great Hitachi / HDS history overview made by Chris Mellor, I worked with HDS as a VAR for the last 5 years and I always found them on the conservative side of things, they struggled to respond to quickly evolving platforms (like Linux support for HDLM), they make nice hardware though. (tags: hds hitachi storage usp)
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