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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 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 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

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 ...

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David Booth

July 25, 2016

Some Tips for a smooth IT Transition into a new office

Having being involved in several office moves and projects to setup IT services in the new office, I have seen some moves that have gone fairly smoothly and some moves that have been very challenging. In this blog entry I will share some of my tips f ...

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David Booth

October 24, 2016

Cloud is changing the IT Professional's Skills

The shift from "traditional" IT to cloud IT is well and truly underway. Many public, private organisations and government agencies are moving a part or all of their IT systems into the cloud. The move to the cloud has resulted in a big change in the ...

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