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. ...
in it-support
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 ...
in it-support
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 ...
in it-support
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 ...
in microsoft
July 3, 2012
IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise
It has been over a year since IBM launched its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) and over three months since PicNet moved its external facing applications to SCE. From this, I would like to share with you ...
in it-support
July 23, 2014
Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises
In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may be contemplating doing something ...