pfSense – powerful, secure and effecient routing platform

Written on August 9, 2010 – 6:04 am | by William Jimenez |

Have you ever been trying to build a network or environment on a budget and needed a really good router and firewall that’s still inexpensive? pfSense is a powerful tool based on the BSD “pf” program that does routing, firewall, VPN, DHCP, DNS, network time, just to mention the highlights. It’s a completely open source [...]

VMware Seminar on Virtualizing Tier 1 Apps

Written on July 15, 2010 – 12:32 am | by William Jimenez |

Today there was a seminar in downtown San Francisco that was hosted by VMware and sponsored by IBM on the topic of the cost savings of virtualization for tier 1 applications, as well as its much unknown performance, reliability, and security aspects.

Installing the Enterprise-Ready Network Monitor Zenoss

Written on July 8, 2010 – 10:42 pm | by William Jimenez |

This arcticle does a good job of explaining the differences between Zenoss and Nagios in an enterprise network: Linux Today – Installing the Enterprise-Ready Network Monitor Zenoss. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare via RedditShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTumblr itTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

Trying out Ubuntu 10.04

Written on July 7, 2010 – 7:46 am | by William Jimenez |

I am starting to embark upon trying out the newest release of Ubuntu, 10.04 (a.k.a Lucid Lynx), and I would love get some feedback on other’s experiences with this release.

IBM Supercomputer Cooled With Hot Water (Slashdot)

Written on July 5, 2010 – 10:25 pm | by William Jimenez |

Most people would consider water and computers to be bad company. Apparently IBM thinks they are good pals: Slashdot Hardware Story | IBM Supercomputer Cooled With Hot Water. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare via RedditShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTumblr itTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

OpenVPN: a truly low cost alternative to expensive VPN solutions

Written on June 23, 2010 – 12:41 am | by William Jimenez |

VPNs have become a mainstay of most enterprise networks, and as users become more mobile this trend will probably increase. So many offices are having people work from home now as well, and that makes a solid VPN even more essential. Site-to-site VPN tunnels are great for offices that are spread-out geographically but need to have their [...]

Splunk could change the way you address systems troubleshooting

Written on June 17, 2010 – 2:36 am | by William Jimenez |

I have been working with Splunk (http://splunk.com) on the side for sys admin projects for over 6 months now, and I realized that there is a lot of cool things to say about it and many people have not heard of it yet. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share about it [...]