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Xen and the art of Digital Epidemiology

November 27, 2009 – 3:32 pm

In 2003 I started steering my career toward Citrix/VMWare/Virtualization and at the time, aside from being laughed at for running this fledgling product called ESX Server 1.51, most of my environment was Windows based. There were plenty of shrink-wrapped tools to let me consolidate my events and the only Unix I had to worry about [...]

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Will that be Paper or Panic?

June 9, 2009 – 11:08 pm

According to the New  York Times, 8/10 doctors still use paper record keeping.  As I stated in an earlier blog, the stimulus package will spend a “ga-jillion” dollars on converting paper records to electronic medical records.   Techworld.com cited in an article in 2007 that “a key tenet of HIPAA’s data privacy and security requirements is [...]

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Electronic Stimulus

June 1, 2009 – 12:29 am

According to the Baltimore Sun, President Obama has promised to spend $50 billion dollars over the next five years coax hospitals, medical centers and the like to begin the process of offering electronic data.  So nurses, occupational therapist and other allied health personnel as well as Doctors may be carrying something like a Kindle around instead [...]

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Netscaler VPX Beyond the Lab

May 26, 2009 – 12:57 am

By John M. Smith   Okay, so the Netscaler appliance has been virtualized, so now what? On May 18th of this year Citrix allowed anyone who wanted to get familiar with their Virtual Netscaler/AGEE to download a beta version of its Netscaler VPX appliance.  This appliance runs on the XenServer 5.0 hypervisor and is a [...]

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