September 13, 2010 — I’m still getting caught up on events, so I thought I’d share with you a little about our participation in the 2010 Tech Field Day held in Seattle, WA.  Back in the middle of July, Compellent had an opportunity to participate in Gestalt IT Tech Field Day.  As it says on their website, “This unique…

September 8, 2010 — I was having a little fun with my new phone, the Samsung Epic 4G and discovered that there is a panoramic mode built into the camera.  I experimented a little and think for a 5MP camera on a phone, that I actually got some pretty good results.  What do you think? Ellie took her first…

September 7, 2010 — Matter of fact, it’s hard to believe that my last post was April 2.  That’s over four months ago. A lot has happened in those four months.  Ellie is now 16 months old and has turned into this fabulous little girl with quite the personality,  I’ve moved into a different role at Compellent, moved from…

April 2, 2010 — I ran into a scenario last week where we had loaded the Compellent Storage Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell on a server. When we launched the shell shortcut, the window opened but took a long time to get to a PowerShell command prompt. So, what causes slow start-up when loading PowerShell? The most common…

March 27, 2010 — I ran into an interesting problem this weekend. I noticed that a lot of email was being returned as non-deliverable from my Exchange 2010 server. Many domains, specifically AOL and some of the major ISPs require that the domains they communicate have mail servers with reverse zone lookups, meaning that their name “mail.domain.com” for example,…