Business

Ford St. Thomas Plant May Have a Buyer

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In case you missed it, yesterday the London Free Press revealed that there is a London-led business group hoping to buy the old Ford St. Thomas Assembly plant, spend $700 million redeveloping it, and then leasing  it out to various users/companies. The initial $700M would be a boon to any local companies that are selected … Read more

Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 4

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Today I’m going to highlight a few features that all revolve around Hyper-V. They are: – Live Migration – VM Import – Hyper-V Replica Live Migration If you’ve been working in virtualized environments for any period of time, you’ll likely agree the migrating a VM from one host to another used to be a tedious … Read more

Hyde Park Was a Quaint Village

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I recently read a story in the London Free Press about how the citizens and businesses of Hyde Park are disappointed about the “progress” taking place in Hyde Park. And Monday night the city planner’s recommendations were ignored by the planning committee, obliterating the fact that Hyde Park was once a quaint village. My bus used to go … Read more

Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 3

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This is probably the coolest feature I’ve ever seen, in any piece of software. If you don’t feel the same by time you’re done reading this, then perhaps you’ll agree it’s easily the coolest and easiest way to provide users with remote access to network resources. DirectAccess was introduced in the last generation of Windows … Read more

Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 2

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To be honest, I didn’t think I would ever write something praising IIS. I use Apache, though I know alternatives like lighttpd and nginx exist. But Apache is tried, tested, and proven to work. It certainly has its flaws (all software do), but it works well and to my liking. Upon seeing what IIS 8 … Read more