Yes. Their BeyondRAID is always the same.

I hear this all the time:

Customer: I didn't click on anything, I don't know how that got installed.
Me: Yes, but program A is on your PC.
Customer: Oh, yeah...I installed that! They say proudly, all smiles and such.
Me: Yeah and did you uncheck the boxes that said we are going to install these other programs?
Customer: I don't think there was anything like that.

Yeahhhh....

And... Why are you stuck with a BB?

@Dashrender said:

Wow.. Windows 8 is only 18 months old - this does seem kind of quick to me. But yeah when you consider that Windows 7 is 5 years old this year I suppose it makes sense.

And @scottalanmiller who, besides you and NTG, Truely buys into the Windows vision? No company large or small I know of stays anywhere near on top of things like Windows versions. LOL a thought question, not a real one.

I'm very much into the Windows ecosystem. With the exception of Hyper-V and the now-defunct TMG, the MS platform is an amazing dynamo of interoperability and centralized management.

Here is a talk that I gave:

http://www.mangolassi.it/topic/24/cloud-computing-architecture-scott-alan-miller-speaking-at-spicecorps-dfw-2012

@Bill-Kindle said:

I completely agree with his "Magna Carta for the Internet" idea. I'm a huge proponent of net neutrality.

Me too neutrality is necessary.

For those interested, NTG now has the Drobo B800i iSCSI SAN being used as a datastore for a XenServer cluster in the NTG Labs.

@ambarishrh said:

Yesterday night I got an iPad mini retina 🙂
Initially after @scottalanmiller post I was almost ready to get a kindle but then thought of my next exams to take this year. We have a corporate cbt nuggets which I use extensively and so decided to get iPad which could be used for both reading and cbt plus you know! 😉

Woke up very early and playing around with the new toy. ML looks great on iPad too 🙂

Nice unit. I plan on trading my iPad 2 for an iPad Mini Retina later this year. We use those for the office. Kindle is just for reading.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

@scottalanmiller said:

@joyfano has been educating me as to the cost of living in the Philippines. So different than NYC 🙂

Yes. I wish i could live here soon 🙂

http://itsmorefuninthephilippines.com/boracay/

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

Yes After a long day at work. 🙂

We need to fix that!

I am looking forward to fix soon 🙂
NO time to drink 😞

@Nara said:

With the exception of manufacturing and companies dealing in physical items, the office isn't the company anymore. It's just where people come to work. Keeping legacy infrastructure around goes against that culture shift.

That's very true. It's amazing how so many people are missing that.

@Joyfano said:

Speaking of Linux Server.. correct me if i am wrong can i use Linux as my server then my client computers are Windows?

Yes. But it depends what you are serving. "Server" and "client" only mean "provides a service" and "consumes a service" so the terms are pretty loose. But to prove what you ask is true, you are currently reading this website on Windows (the client.) The site itself is running on Linux (the server.) So this interaction that we are having right now is both of us using Windows as the client and Linux as the service.

Likewise you can use Office 365 on a Linux machine. So Windows is the server and Linux is the client in that case.