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Domino 8.5.2 Addling Email Aliases

Often times people need to receive email for multiple valid variation of their email addresses. On most email systems, these are called email aliases. IBM Domino has a slightly unusual way of allowing system administrators to define aliases: Open the … Continue reading

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Domino 8.5 SSL Key Import Into Keyring File

Domino Server SSL Key Import By default, the SSL key order process in the Domino Administrator assumes that only single domain certificates are used. Hence, when you have a multi domain UCC or a wildcard certificate, it has to be … Continue reading

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Advice in the Wake of Security Breaches

By Mark Nyquist ‐ Information Systems Director, Epicor HCM In the wake of the recent security breaches (see links below), I’d like to take just a quick moment to remind everyone that extra vigilance and scrutiny are becoming vital for … Continue reading

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Linux Kernel Hangs During Boot

While rebooting a machine for example to apply a kernel update, it hangs. You try older kernels, and it hangs too. Not necessarily at the same spot. Here are some examples: … io scheduler cfq registered (default) … Real Time … Continue reading

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Domino Server Crash Debug Data Collection

Even though Domino servers tend to be very stable, it may happen that every now and then there is a crash. In that case it is good to be able to provide appropriate details to IBM. Here are some recommendations … Continue reading

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NewPush featured in StorageNewsletter.com

StorageNewsletter.com is carrying and article about our new SAN infrastructure choice around IBM N series and Zerowait SimpleStor products. Here is an excerpt: Zerowait Corporation, provider of independent NetApp support and off- lease systems, announced that NewPush, a global application … Continue reading

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Migrate ProxMox KVM Storage from local to NFS on netapp

Proxmox KVM storage migration from local to NFS In order to be able to use the live partition migration in Proxmox, the KVM partition needs to be on NFS or iSCSI. Here is the process for an NFS storage. – … Continue reading

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Updated IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals

Refresh of the DB2 e-kit As a follow up to the DB2 Discovery Kit post, here is a link the the Updated IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals This new kit has a number of resources for migrating to DB2 … Continue reading

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Verifying SSL Certificates

Problem You have a few SSL cert files on your server, but you are not sure which one is the newest, or the right cert to use. Solution Look at the contents of a CSR openssl req -noout -text -in … Continue reading

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Business Analytics Software Efficiencies are Key

Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and the Hardware Upgrade Tarpit A common misconception about business analytics, is that better business analytics usually requires better hardware. Business Analytics: Software rules over Hardware A number of blogs have recently reflected on the “REPORT … Continue reading

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