The Converging Network
The Converging Network by Mitchell Ashley is about the convergence of technologies, products, social media and the entrepreneurial spirit. Specializing in product design, development, networking, security, virtualization and Microsoft, Mitchell shares his experiences and observations about being an entrepreneur in today business climate.
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Podcast 61 - Steve Goodbarn is all about DNSSEC
Our guest on SSAATY podcast #61 is Steve Goodbarn, former Janus Funds CFO and now CEO of Secure64, maker of highly scalable and deployable DNSSEC products. DNSSEC has been in the news a lot lately, (Network World seems to be the place where it's covered most), largely because of Dan Kaminsky's talk …
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Biden is really Walter
Joe Biden's kind of been left in the dust as Obama's begun putting together his cabinet team. So, I thought I'd put up this little post to brighten all of our days. One of the funniest comedians I like is a ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. His main puppet is an old crotchety guy named Walter. Walter likes …
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May 8, 2009... The Wait Is Over - Star Trek Movie
Okay, I'm a totally knock-kneed, bad body odor, greesy haired, pizza eating nerd when it comes to Star Trek. I've been to Star Trek conventions, I watch the shows and have all the movies. When it comes right down to it, I'm really a fan of the classic Star Trek, more so than the other series (though …
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Thinking Too Small – Dare To Think Big
I had an interesting ah-ha happen this morning. Last night I had emailed my editor because I had blogged about Jerry Yang stepping down as CEO of Yahoo!. I caught the news Monday evening and had blogged about this pretty early in the news cycle so I thought there might be a chance I’d get some “link …
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Blog Shoutout – ShawnDavison.com
A very dear friend, business partner and superbly bright entrepreneur decided to give blogging a try. Meet Shawn Davision, who writes at his new blog shawndavison.com. Every chance I get, I always encourage people to share their wisdom. I believe each of us has unique wisdom that is worth sharing. …
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Will Farrell as George Bush endorses McCain
Enjoy this video. Will Farrell with Tina Fey as G W Bush and Sarah Palin is a hoot!
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Harvesting The Wind - e2 series
I don't know how I missed it but PBS has had a series called e2 about sustainable living that I came across last night while flipping channels at 2am. The episode playing was Harvesting The Wind, showing how the state of Minnesota, local communities, farmers and entrepreneurs in southwest Minnesota …
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New Cobia modules - The vision is still alive
A week or so ago, Alan Shimel announced on his blog that StillSecure released some new modules for the Cobia platform. Cobia is a software platform for networking and security that runs on general purpose Intel computing hardware. VPN, DNS, anti-virus/spyware/spam, and URL filtering were added to Co …
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Podcast 60 - Sam Van Ryder from Medioh! Studios
Alan and I welcome our friend and former StillSecure colleague, Sam Van Ryder. Sam is now with Alert Logic where he heads up their partnership with Ingram Micro. Alert Logic is a security managed services provider and Sam gives us a look into the MSSP provider market. Alan also scoops the tradition …
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Podcast #59 - Mike Murray, The Easiest Security Guy to Pick Up On Twitter
Alan and I are getting back into the swing of doing podcasts regularly again. I guess since we don't work together every day any longer, this is a way we maintain our industry connection along with our personal friendship. Alan's ying and I'm yang. He's "click" and I'm "clack". (An NPR Car Talk radi …
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Podcast #58 - Bill Brenner, CSO Online
This week Bill Brenner, senior editor at CSO Online, joins Alan and me to discuss the impact the financial crisis will have on security in enterprises, small businesses and the security industry itself. We're likely to see a lot more federal regulations and this could actually be good for network se …
The Converging Network
