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I’ve been a bit occupied over the Summer and have fallen behind on my posts.  Now that it’s getting a bit cooler outside, I should be around more.  On a side note, here are a few things I’ve been playing with over the past few months and will probably make my initial return posts about:

• Windows 7 - I’ve been using it since beta, RC and RTM.. I like it
• 10Ggb Networking – Starting using 10Gb iSCSI with our homemade SAN.
• Cisco ASA – Replaced all PIX at various locations with spankin new ASAs..
• Barracuda Web Filter – Replaced Websense with Barracuda Web Filter for big savings.
• Barracudaware – Barracuda purchased Yostemite Backup and lowered the retail price even more.  It is now my recommended backup software for any network.
• AT&T Opt-E-man vs. XO T3 – Should have performance results comparing our 50mb Opt-E-man vs. our XO T3 soon, which is the better deal?
• RSTP Redundancy – Completed our fully redundant Layer2 network with some additional procurve switches and RSTP.  In the process of pushing a new vlan scheme with MSTP for load balancing and redundancy.

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Here is a list of some random software I use for the majority of things I deal with:

Zenoss – Open Source Network Monitoring, takes nagios and cacti to another level.  Very customizable, but takes a while to become familiar with the system.  The more I play with Zenoss, I constantly come across new features and advanced functions.

Monitoring Terminal Services sessions:

Monitoring SQL locks:

Monitoring Apache:

Monitoring MySQL:

Dekiwiki – Open source WIKI, with very good media integration and built-in support for Active Directory.  I prefer it over MediaWIKI.

Jing – Free desktop screen capture utility, also creates flash videos on the fly.  Has its own file sharing service screencast.com for sharing your screenshots/videos.  Great for making tutorials.