David Booth

David Booth

Director of Managed Cloud Services and IT Support at PicNet

David joined PicNet in 2004 and has held several roles straddling the breadth of IT. David has worked on numerous projects for a number of medium and large size companies and Government agencies. David consults as a vCIO, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and drives the IT Support and Managed Cloud Services at PicNet.

David Booth

May 14, 2012

Windows 8 Preview

With the upcoming release of the Windows 8 "release preview" in June and the full release of Windows 8 rumoured to be set for October, I thought now would be a good time to have a look at the next iteration of Microsoft's flagship and see what the fu ...

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David Booth

February 25, 2010

Organisational Resilience in Business Continuity

Following my previous blog post on Business Continuity, I would like to continue today on the same theme, but this time moving to the concept of resilience. Resilience in the context of Business Continuity can be defined as a combination of the follo ...

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David Booth

February 24, 2010

The Business is Essential to Business Continuity Planning

The topic of the last PicNet User Group meeting was on Business Continuity and Resilience. The discussion in this meeting revolved around the importance of business involvement and eventual business ownership in a successful BCP project and how to de ...

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David Booth

February 19, 2010

Riverbed Performance Optimizations - Beyond the default Configuration

After working with the Riverbed Steelhead Appliances for a number of years now I thought I would share some of the additional performance tweaks you can make beyond the out the box configuration without the need to contact Riverbed Technical Support. ...

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David Booth

February 1, 2010

Five tips to kit out your data centre on the cheap

This is a great article put up by ITnews.com.au for any IT Manager out there: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/166078,five-tips-to-kit-out-your-data-centre-on-the-cheap.aspx/0 ...

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David Booth

January 13, 2010

Cloud Computing Offering Comparison

Hello and welcome to my first new blog post of the decade…aka 2010! I recently underwent a research of the various big cloud providers as part of a new project / product inside PicNet and I thought this would be a good place to share with you some of ...

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