I love podcasts! In the seven months that I’ve made the long trek into Washington, D.C. for work, I’ve pretty much become a podcast junkie. I’m unable to commit to just a few and always on the prowl for more. Being able to listen to entire podcasts is the silver lining to my commute. It…
Year: 2018
My “Woman In Tech” Story
At this year’s Women in Tech (WIT) panel at NetApp Insight, CEO George Kurian cautioned the audience not to focus solely on STEM as the only way to bring more women to tech. This point hit home for me. I didn’t come to tech through STEM. I grew up poor. Both of my parents dropped…
Lose Some Complexity with Zerto at #SFD16
If you’ve ever attended a Tech Field Day or watched any of the presentations online, you know that a lot of really cool tech gets covered. Unfortunately, depending on your job, you may see solutions that you can’t take straight back to your 9-5 job and implement. Let’s fast track to Storage Field Day 16…
Retrospective on Why I’m Learning to Reverse My Risk-Aversion
Six months ago, I wrote this unpublished and slightly unfinished post about how my life was missing growth, adventure, and challenges. It was kind of my a-ha moment that I needed to do something different and that I needed to start taking risks. Leaving a well-paying job in which you are valued and treated very…
Why I Stopped Treading Water
An old boss used to say “If you aren’t moving forward, you are just treading water.” When I submitted my resignation a few weeks ago, I had these words close to my heart. Since 2011, I’ve gone to work at the same place. During this time, I’ve seen countless people come and go. And I’ve…
Multi-Factor Authentication, FTW!
I was super excited when ONTAP 9.3 came out with multi-factor authentication support. I tweeted about it and even went on a Tech ONTAP recap podcast for NetApp Insight 2017 and talked about it. Usually, there is a trade-off with convenience when it comes to security. Security is typically inconvenient. Multi-factor authentication is the exception…
How working in DoD makes patching ‘yo sh*t’ an imperative
In the world of ops, it’s natural not to want to patch/update a finicky application. What sys admin wants to break sh*t?! Interestingly, Equifax’s former CEO blamed the entire data breach on the sys admin that didn’t patch Apache Struts. Fortunately, working in the Department of Defense, we have systems in place that alert us to…