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After doing some digging today with a Client, we hit a roadblock on something that I need to share with using the NVMe virtual disk controller on the VMware ESXi 6.5 and above platform. If you’re using this vDisk...

My blog has changed names twice over the years. Today, after 15 years, it’s changing again. Before I had a “real” blog, I published random thoughts on whatever personal website my then-current university would...

  Keith Harrington of Novel Growth Partners and Founder, Revenue-Based Finance Network, is hosting an interview with me February 23rd at 1pm ET.  We’ll talk about revenue-based investing and other alternative...

By Jennifer Burke, burkejj@ornl.gov | Science Writer and Communications Specialist | ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated that a new class of superalloys made of cobalt and nickel remains...

When the great work from home experiment started and organizations around the world sent their people to work from home, a lot of team leaders started to sense that they weren’t managing a team of 12, so much as...

I’m about to come out with a book I’ve been writing since I was a Yale junior, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. My coauthor is Mandee Heller Adler, CEO of International College Counselors...

What is Apple’s IOS 14 Update? Apple is currently testing the privacy update in a beta version of iOS 14, which is expected to roll out to all users in early spring. Apple has announced changes with iOS 14 to impact...

If you have a SQL Server Availability Group (AG) and the VMs are being replicated to a disaster recovery site (cloud or on-prem), chances are the networking topology is not the same at the second site. These...

I am thrilled to announce the launch of a new education initiative called SQLibrium. For years, I’ve traveled the world educating technical audiences on deep-dive topics around how data and infrastructure / cloud...

One of the things we know about performance at work is that talent flows from teams. How well a team communicates, collaborates, and supports the members on it has a massive effect on how well an individual performs....

I’ve been wondering for a while about the relationship between Robin Cockett, Geoff Cruttwell, and colleagues’ categorical approach to differential calculus and differential geometry, and similar constructions...

David chats with Martin Lindstrom, author of the The Ministry of Common Sense about how great leaders work to eliminate bureaucratic red tape, bad excuses, and corporate BS. Martin argues that the biggest reason for...

Launching is easy; fundraising is harder. I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. If you take the fifteen steps below, you’ll have...

 You can now pre-order my forthcoming book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. I started writing this at age 20, and have been writing it over the years all the way until we finalized the...

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. ) Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from...

David chats with Todd Henry, author of The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work about how to motivate your team by learning what drives each individual’s motivation. Understanding the...