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Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E2 -Internal vs External training
The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World Read More...
Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E1 - Industry Insights and Trends Podcast
The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World Read More...
“Security Bulletins for the regular IT guy” Podcast – 10/13/2009
Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending Read More...
Day One – Half Done – TechDays Toronto
Here we are, half way done the first day and things are flying. It’s awesome to see how many people came out to attend TechDays Toronto in order to pick and choose their personalized “a-la-carte” track from the over 40 sessions. As you can see – we’ve Read More...
TechDays_ca in Toronto – Setup Well underway.
Hey guys/gals, By now I hope you know that TechDays is a technical conference that we’re putting on across most of Canada – 7 cities to be exact. The other day I tweeted that I was excited because we crossed the 350 registered attendees for our “expansion Read More...
“What have you been up to lately? How’s the IT department?” Ignite your Career – Episode 3
Picture yourself walking into an elevator and having a senior executive standing in there. After the pleasant head nod, you press your floor button and stand to the side. After the doors close - the executive finally recognizes you and remembers you’re Read More...
“Security Bulletins for the regular IT guy” Podcast – 9/8/2009
Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending Read More...
Free Hyper-V Server R2 Cluster and Live Migration
Wow things have changed. I first got started with virtualization in 2000/2001 with VMWare Workstation 3.x as a way to clean up my “office” in the one bedroom apartment I was renting. Just over three years ago at the first EnergizeIT event, we demo’d failover Read More...
“Security Bulletins for the regular IT guy” Podcast – 8/11/2009
Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending Read More...
How does your IT Department run?
I recently had the privilege of holding a piece of Canadian history (photo credit, Mark Blevis from Podcasters Across Boarders ). Well, actually 64 pieces of history – in the shape of the SixStringNation guitar . I was at a conference this past weekend Read More...
Patching – how do you cope?
Patching is a necessary evil. A lot of IT pros don’t like to talk about patching due to the amount of work it can generate for them in their already PACKED jobs. It came up as a heated topic of discussion at a user group event I attended a while back Read More...
Investing in ongoing Skills Training / Development.
“Is it a school day tomorrow?” I get this question almost every day from my kids. Doesn’t matter if it’s from my kindergarten aged twins or my “seasoned veteran” son who’s in grade 2. It’s on their minds as something they have to do – their task that Read More...
“Security Bulletins for the regular IT guy” Podcast – 6/11/2009
Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending Read More...
“Security Bulletins for the regular IT guy” Podcast – 05/12/2009
Three guys got together over pints a while ago and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought to the forefront at a User Group meeting we were attending Read More...
Announcing the Ignite IT Awards Winners!
Last year, we announced the Ignite IT Awards . Its purpose is to recognize and reward the efforts of Canadian IT professionals and software developers. Today, we are happy to announce that we have selected the winners of this year’s awards: 2009 Winner Read More...
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