Over the last year or so I have been looking at the Astaro Firewalls to replace a Cisco PIX 506e at one of the companies I work with. The needs for the firewall were modest, but the company has outgrown the existing PIX and with some upcoming projects, most notably the implentation of a new IP PBX we...

Pure Digital recently released the latest version of their Flip Video cameras, the Ultra Series. These cameras are really quite something for their size and price. They have the capability to shoot either 30 or 60 minutes depending on which version you get. While the quality will not give your high-end...

Well after nearly a two year long hiatus the broken is supposedly coming back, according to Digg/Pownce/Revision3 founder Kevin Rose. Kevin posted on his Pownce account today that he would do one more episode of the Internet-based show.The broken is an episodic show that was based around the more...

I have been an active listener to the TWIT podcast for the last few years, however I was very disappointed with the episode that I just listened to. Episode 135 featured Leo Laporte, Jason Calicanis, Jerry Pournelle, and Wil Harris. First, I cannot stand Jerry Pournelle on TWiT. He does not have a voice...

One of the great things about living in the Phoenix area is the fact that it really is a great sports town, even if it does not get the respect that it deserves. While Arizona may not be home to the number of professional sports championships that other cities like Boston and New York have, but we perennially...

Recently I deployed my first Exchange 2007 server on Windows 2008 for one of the companies I work with. During the process of deploying the server we found out that the new Windows Server Backup that is included in Windows Server 2008 does not have the capability to backup the Exchange Information Stores...

This month’s Fast Company magazine has a listing of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies”. While it is a great article, it has some traditional “low-tech” companies such as Wal-mart mixed in with the tech companies. I recognize that some of these companies are...

Most business owners and companies like to wait to make technology investments until they absolutely have to. With many investments in your business this type of approach will work, but with technology this is not the case, your technology must grow with your business. If you wait until you are having...

Now that Apple has embraced the enterprise market with the iPhone where are the rest of the enterprise products? Apple has spent the time to invest in a relationship with businesses by building the new iPhone software, now they should apply this philosophy across their entire product line. For example,...

In a post last week I made the case that it would not matter to the IT Managers of the world that the iPhone gains Exchange Support, UNLESS they licensed Active Sync from Microsoft. Which is what they did. By doing so they add far more functionality than I could have ever hoped for out of the iPhone,...