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		<title>Practice What You Preach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a saying in the medical profession that goes something like, &#8220;Doctors make the worst patients&#8221;. It due to them thinking they know what&#8217;s wrong with them or them thinking that nothing is wrong with them. It really should say, &#8220;Medical professionals make the worst patients&#8221;. Case in point: my mother. She&#8217;s a retired nurse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=325&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Going to VMworld</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People go to VMworld for many reasons.  Some go because it’s their job to ”man the booth”.  Others go to party.  And still others go “just because”.  However, the most common reason why people go to VMworld is to learn about VMware products and its ecosystem.  If I were still in the position of IT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=314&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What about Tintri?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Phoenix VMUG meeting this week.  The two main sessions were about vSphere5 and Tintri’s VMstore.  While vSphere5 is interesting, I have been working with it for over 5 months now so it wasn’t a “must see” presentation for me.  I was actually at the event to see Tintri and I have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=308&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Thoughts on Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s talk training again.  I recently had the opportunity to attend two classes.  One was self-paced using pre-recorded content; the other was an online instructor led class.  Before I get into what I think about them, I want to define a few items: Tutorial:  good for single item topics and are generally short.  Tutorials should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=297&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Enterprise Network Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 17:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my next trick, I am going to review another Cisco Press book titled “Enterprise Network Testing”.  I think I can sum this up in two sentences:  “Holy Crap!” and  “This book has PLENTY of cowbell!”. Now I am not currently a network guy by profession, but if I was, this book would be on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=291&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading “IPv6 for Enterprise Networks”, published by Cisco Press.   All I can say is that unless you have the hots for IP protocol discussions, this book will not rock your world.   It’s not that it is a poorly written book, it’s just that I don’t find IPv6 to be exciting.   That being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=286&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: PKI Uncovered, Certificate-based Security Solutions for Next-Generation Networks</title>
		<link>http://itvirtuality.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/boom-review-pki-uncovered-certificate-based-security-solutions-for-next-generation-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you rate/review a technical book?    I could go on and on about different methodologies, but basically, I think a technical book is good if I can read it without having to take a ton of breaks, if I walk away with an understanding of the technology, and if it meets the needs of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=282&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First 60 Days at VCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to post a “My first 30 days” type article so I figured I would be lazy and wait 60 days.  What’s it been like?  Crazy. &#160; Let’s start with some organization structure.  All the glory hounds, ahem, people you probably know are in some sort of sales/services group.  Names like Aaron Delp, Kendrick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=279&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why VCE?</title>
		<link>http://itvirtuality.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/why-vce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked why I went to VCE.  Not why I left the City, but why I went to VCE, specifically.  After all, there are plenty of other companies out there looking for infrastructure types like me.  It’s a good question and here is my answer. Before I can say “why VCE”, I need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=272&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Am I Here?</title>
		<link>http://itvirtuality.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/why-am-i-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes look around at the people in my department (IT dept.)  and wonder how they ended up in this line of work.  I would call a large portion of the people I work with “Day Techs”.  A Day Tech is someone who is only technical during the day.  After hours, these folks want nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itvirtuality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12925618&amp;post=264&amp;subd=itvirtuality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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