Category Archives: Technical
Adding More (Red)Fish to Your Diet
Imagine, if you will, you are someone in a server operations team. As a member of that team, you are expected to keep the multiple layers of that server up to date. When you have only a handful of servers, … Continue reading
Harnessing the Power of PowerShell Advanced Functions
Recently, I published (https://github.com/snoopj123/NXAPI) a community-based PowerShell module so that PowerShell aficionados could interact with Cisco NX-OS switches (specifically the Nexus 5000 and 7000 families) that were running an API package called NX-API. This API package allowed for sending NX-OS … Continue reading
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The Dichotomy of Mentoring
I can’t help but notice a certain amount of chatter on my social media timelines about “mentoring”. In our industry, we tend to associate this in the form of career advancement. We take someone with less experience (a “junior”) and … Continue reading
When “Culture” Really Isn’t Culture
As we approach the end of the calendar year, many of us in the information technology field use this time to reflect on the prior year and may even use that reflection period to consider whether it’s the right time … Continue reading
Amplify: The Story of My 2017
End of the year recaps are about as clichéd as they come. However, I do feel it’s important to see where we start the year and how we end the year. Needless to say, 2017 has been a rather interesting … Continue reading
Three Up/Three Down: HPE Tech Day Edition
In early October, I was approached by Calvin Zito (@CalvinZito on Twitter) about attending a HPE Tech Day in mid-October. He mentioned that this one was going to have a storage focus (which anyone who reads any of my blogs … Continue reading
Different Strokes For Different Folks: Hybrid Cloud Edition
No doubt you’ve heard plenty about the concept of hybrid cloud (or even hybrid IT) recently. Personally, my Twitter timeline has been rampant with opinion pieces (some good, some bad) and your usually array of bickering between the various factions … Continue reading
Becoming a Leader
Leadership. We hear this term thrown around but I think few people actually know what it means to be a leader, let alone an effective leader. Personally, I scoffed at the idea that I would ever be a “leader”. I … Continue reading
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The Golden Rule
Personally, I’ve never claimed to ever be a religious man. However, as a child, I did enough Sunday School activities to remember Matthew 7:12. “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this … Continue reading
Just Show Up
I didn’t always start out in this industry as a “community” guy. Actually, even when I was a student at the University of Northern Iowa, I really didn’t do much participation with any of the get-togethers or “club” scene within … Continue reading
