http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com Do it faster. Do it better. -- blog style. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How many of you when you were kids were scared to death of the movie The Shining? I know I was. I think it still scares me today. The movie even made a little kid scary; his voice is what pulled it off. I can still get ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/redrum/ I have to admit it, I enjoy watching football. Now that the Super Bowl has come and gone, I took a few minutes to reflect on exactly what the Saints had to go through to get to the big ‘W’. Winning isn’t easy, and requires a lot of ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-champion/ In my role at SoftLayer, I am asked by a number of people for our financial forecasts. Fortunately, we know our business well enough that our expectations for one year ahead have proven to be on target. For example, in December 2008, we told our bankers to expect 2009 net ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/the-taxman-is-here/ How many times have you received a “task” through email with no priority or due date attached? Just “Hey, do this…” with nothing more. It leaves you wondering when this particular “task” is supposed to be completed or how important this task may be. What if you’re ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/the-case-for-task-managment-systems/ Just about everything you use wears out over time. Yet some people feel the need to use the same password for years on end. I have followed a few articles over the last few months and it seems that password usage best practices are hard to get to end ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/does-your-password-suck-maybe-its-time-to-upgrade/ I have a friend who recently took a CTO position with a medium-sized company. The huge company that previously employed him moved their entire IT staff a long way outside of Texas to a rather unpleasant location as a cost cutting move. He and many others declined the relocation offer. ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/don%e2%80%99t-run-a-data-center-%e2%80%93-run-your-business/ You’re hired, welcome to the company! All you techies out there have heard that before. Then for the first couple of weeks you get the luxury of, “just take a look around the network and see what you see, make a note of what is good and what ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/hero-or-failure/ Nothing’s worse than trying to use someone’s website when you absolutely need information right now, and it’s unavailable. Last semester when attempting to figure out where the heck my classes were located, the school’s website was crippled by the influx of new freshmen that were trying to do the ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/when-things-get-hectic-cloud-computing-to-the-rescue/ As you all know it is now 2010. We live in the most technological age of this planet. We have reached into the stars to find out if we are alone in the universe, while still finding out the secrets of our own planet. Growing up 2010 ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/where-are-all-of-the-robots/ So there we were at Lance’s New Year’s Eve party and all of us are having a great time and enjoying some of Sam F’s delicious 3-Bars BBQ. We at some point decide that it would be a good idea to jump into Lance’s pool for a little ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2010/more-strange-dreams-%e2%80%93-this-time-with-explosives/