AUTHORED BY MARK JOHNSON, VICE PRESIDENT, MANAGED SERVICES @ GUIDEIT In the IT services business when we think about Disaster Recovery (DR) it’s almost always in the context of business infrastructure and applications – for obvious reasons. But recently I experienced one of the strangest coincidences concerning a form of DR that it is definitely time […]
Plano, TX – September 25, 2015 – GuideIT today announced that it signed a contract to provide an enterprise technology assessment to a major foods products company using its proprietary gAssess methodology. With gAssess, GuideIT uses a 360 degree approach to evaluate technology drivers, strategy, people, operations, results, and the interdependent relationship between these factors to […]
This is similar, but an enhanced version of my custom_mount.sh previously published here: Bash: Automatically Mount File Systems on Volume Group if Present. This previous version was just a simple init script. This updated version is designed for newer Linux distributions that use Systemd instead of Init. The Code The majority of the work is […]
I have had this one in the queue for a while (I don’t even run of Fedora 20 anymore). This one will be short and sweet because there really isn’t a bunch of discussion that needs to go into it. By default Fedora 20 will block outbound PPTP VPN connections. # firewall-cmd –direct –add-rule ipv4 […]
Plano, Texas – September 15, 2015 – GuideIT announced today the completion of a project focused on creating a roadmap to align IT to the business strategy for a tech company providing solutions to the legal industry. The new Chief Technology Officer needed independent support to create a path for reducing IT costs, more consistent […]
AUTHORED BY GUY WOLF, TRANSFORMATION EXECUTIVE @GUIDEIT Last week we talked about ways to “follow your gut” when making an important decision about outsourcing a significant portion of IT services. Why is it that even as our ability to objectively evaluate vendor bids for outsourcing has improved, we rely as much if not more on […]
Let me start by saying that this problem is not unique to Zimbra and it certainly isn’t unique the version 8.6, however, I was using Zimbra 8.6 when I ran into this problem, so this is how I fixed it. What is Bayesian Poisoning? One of the core tenants of spam filtering using Bayesian probability […]
AUTHORED BY GUY WOLF, TRANSFORMATION EXECUTIVE @ GUIDEIT Early in my career, a manager told me how he made important decisions. “I always follow my gut. In fact, I’ve put on so much weight in this job, that my gut sticks out and I literally have to follow it wherever I go!” Kidding aside, he […]
AUTHORED BY GUY WOLF, TRANSFORMATION EXECUTIVE @ GUIDEIT “We made the decision six weeks ago to go with the preferred vendor. Why is it taking so long to finalize the contract with them?” a CIO asked us recently. Why, indeed? We had performed the due diligence one would expect on a deal of this size, […]