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

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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David Booth

December 15, 2009

The unspoken truth about why your IT sucks

I stumbled across this article this morning and found it quite an interesting read. The article describes why many organisations struggle with IT due to a lack of standard definitions for terminology and practices. Click here: ...

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David Booth

November 16, 2009

Exchange 2010 has launched!

Microsoft has recently released the new version of Exchange Mail Server 2010. As with each new version of Exchange new features are added and it's very nice to see that the focus on new features around retention, governance & compliance and the abili ...

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David Booth

November 4, 2009

Agile Software Development & PRINCE2

The majority of projects that I have managed have been software development projects. At PicNet we use an agile software development methodology. We like the Agile approach because it allows us to get feedback from the business on the system in devel ...

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