Invest In Non-Technical Training

On October 18th I will be giving a presentation at a TechTarget event (details coming next week) on the FlexPod reference architecture and how it can enable companies to build their own private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. I have received formal training on FlexPod architectures from the manufacturer. I have experience designing and operating the components of a FlexPod architecture (in this case VMware vSphere

Technical Books Are Not Enough

Any good IT professional probably has a bookshelf/e-reader full of technical books. O’Reilly books on everything from DNS, TCP/IP, Windows, UNIX, Linux, NAS, SAN, and whatever else you can think of are certainly a big part of my personal library. A well written technical book is great! Reading only well written technical books is not so great though. Technology books only cover one half of IT; Technology books ne