Disaster Planning… how much is enough? After a flurry of activity the past couple years, we are now taking a step back to see where to reassert some energy. Sometimes, when things are growing and changing at a quick pace, it is easy to push aside important, but not seemingly urgent, ...

It has been quite the experience trying to pick just the right hardware for our forthcoming Intelerad PACS deployment. Complicating matters somewhat is that we are simultaneously deploying VMWare’s ESX solution for our non PACS servers, which requires hardware as well. Not to mention, our internal/external network needs to be modernized ...

So far (nearly) so good with our phone system this past while. None of the weird glitches have surfaced since our new vendor worked on our system. However, the story is not quite over yet. Nortel has insisted (and strongly!) that we replace our entire BCM/Expansion Cabinet with a free ...

Think you have all your ducks in a row in regards to your disaster recovery plans? You might want to check those ducky’s again! Claus Mikkelsen talks about a bank that thought all was well during a power outage. Trouble is, they had diesel generators on the roof, supplied by diesel fuel ...

We have a pair of AIC storage servers. Given that these can take up to 48 drives each, they draw some significant power. As is too often the case, when we got the first one, we were in a crunch to get it online and migrating data on to it ...