Yesterday, I returned my keys to the office and my laptop at the OGD office in Eindhoven where I worked for the past 2,5 years. In that time, I've had the pleasure of working with some excellent colleagues and doing some great projects. However, I've found a new challenge to work on, as I wrote about earlier, and as of Monday, I'll be the new ...

Date: Friday, the 18th of July 2008. Location: OGD HQ (Delft, The Netherlands). 'So, we reached the conclusion that you've been slacking', Sander tells me. I ponder upon this for a moment, and then fully agree with him. After another moment of cogitation, I tell him that I will be writing a few posts this very weekend. I'm not lying, as I'd been ...

A few weeks ago, I got a call from one of our accountmanagers. If I would be available to perform a migration at a customer. The situation seemed a bit tricky, as the customer had a clusterconfiguration that, apparently, 'wasn't very stable'. That, it turned out, was a euphemism.. Upon arrival, I logged onto the servers and examined the ...

Thursday afternoon. As I started working part-time since last week, I decided to have a quiet night indoors, have a glass of wine, rent a movie.. you know how it is. So, I jumped on my bike (a normal one, not like the powered horses Jorge's riding), hop by the supermarket and stop by the videostore. The supermarket part was easy enough, so I ...

Anyone who has worked in IT for some time, is aware of the fact that there are various ways to automate tedious tasks. Unattended installations, scripts, templates, etc., all ease our lives just that little bit more. There is, however, a practical danger to this automation. In this article, I want to take a quick glimpse at VMWare and, in ...

In today's IT-departments, we like to approach matters in a controlled manner, keeping an eye out for quality and service. While a few years ago it was acceptable to govern an infrastructure in a more ad-hoc manner, the risks of such an approach are no longer acceptable in today's departments. For precisely this reason, processmodels such as ITIL ...