In this week’s newsletter
Our readers share how the COVID-19 crisis has been impacting their businesses, jobs and lives as IT professionals. Plus lots of other stuff — read it all, read it here on WServerNews!
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Editor’s Corner
The world is changing fast as we all enter unchartered waters with the continuing spread of the COVID-19 virus and the way nations and governments have responded to the crisis. Many of us who work in IT have had to shift to working at home instead of the office. Those of us who often travel as part of our jobs have seen such activities severely curtailed. And while some of us may have been laid off as the companies we work for fight for their survival, others of us may surprisingly be experiencing an uptake in our work and expect our business to grow!
How has COVID-19 impacted your work as an IT professional? We asked a number of our readers this question and have devoted the Editor’s Corner section of this week’s newsletter to sharing their replies. We feel that by telling you what your colleagues are experiencing you may glean some tips or things to avoid that can help you adjust to the changes your own job is now experiencing. And at the very least, they say that misery loves company, so hearing what’s happening to other IT pros may help you realize you’re not alone in all this.
If after reading the stories below you feel you would like to share your own story on how your IT work is being impacted by the Corona Virus situation, please email your story to us at [email protected] and we’ll share it with the 200k IT pro subscribers of our newsletter in the next issue.
In the meantime, hang in there!
Now let’s listen to what’s happening with some of our colleagues in our profession…
Don’t forget your Disaster Recovery plans!
By Andrew S. Baker, Cybersecurity & IT Operations Consulting, BrainWave Consulting
Greetings, Mitch. Hope you are doing well as life changes all around us.
There have indeed been some changes brought about by the novel Corona Virus, and all the associated activity.
Many, many more people are working from home, and this has led to many of my customers having to significantly ramp up their remote access functionality/infrastructure. For the past 2-3 weeks, I have been involved in a lot more disaster recovery and business continuity work, as well as expanding or troubleshooting of remote access connectivity.
I’m also seeing that while some companies are basically okay with implementing their DR or BCP plans, with some tweaks or adjustments, others are finding out that they were just going through the motions before, and that what they wrote down is not useful or effective in the real world. So, some advisory work is coming out of this as well.
I’m thankful that I have many years of real world disaster recovery and business continuity experience to fall back on — primarily with 24×7 organizations, but also with smaller orgs. This has been helpful in giving guidance or implementing solutions under duress over the past few weeks.
Finally, as an observation, I’ve seen both successes and struggles with companies that are more on-premises focused vs those that are more cloud-focused. Each mode offers its own set of advantages and its own set of disadvantages. As just one example, orgs with on-premises remote access solutions are having a bit of trouble scaling it up fast enough to deal with the sudden rise in percentage of remote workforce. On the other side of that, cloud-focused companies are able to scale in this area faster, but have the concern that their vendor might not be able to do so for all *their* customers.
My job, as a consultant, is to help my customers bridge these gaps in service whichever way is appropriate for their strategic direction.
Observations of a single guy that lives in an apartment
By Mark from Ohio
Hi Mitch, hope this finds you and yours safe and healthy!
I got lucky when my company announced that “… anyone who ‘could’ work from home, ‘should’ work from home …” as I was entering the third non-consecutive week of training but with an instructor whom I have been in class with in-person during 2 other weeks. Many of us are “upskilling” our old QA manual testing to gear into the Automated Testing world which, no matter how many fancy tools someone wants to buy, there will always be some exposure to code and some of us testers were total black box testers. We may be able to recognize code as code and even read some of it, but for the most part it could have been written in Klingon. Bad example, most testers know Klingon, but you get what I mean.
As to working remotely, we had been in a classroom setting where we already were sitting a desk in a classroom, remoted into our workstation where we were connected to a video conferencing app so we could see the instructor’s screen and use our local instance of Visual Studio without having to try to install anything on the basically dumb terminals we sat at. So work from home just meant “take all your stuff home and connect from there”. We had had some people remoting in from home already because they had some typical rinky-dink illness, so for them, it was no big deal. And for us in the class, during a close of the day discussion, we have all discovered it is actually working out really well. Company provided us all with headsets and webcams, we could take home monitors, desktops if we had them, all the hardware to replicate sitting at your desk.
We have had employees without Wi-Fi be loaned cellular hotspots, if we need cables to connect directly rather than wobbly Wi-Fi in home, we have actually been very fortunate in how our company has dealt with it. At least the connecting part. While my class has been a smooth transition, my co-workers are struggling a bit more.
We are a software company and we never really realized just how much we turn our heads and speak to each other, or walk over to ask someone a question. We have an internal communication tool so it has bloomed and people are finding overload occurring often as EVERYONE is talking at once and convos are difficult to follow, but we all realize the convos need to occur in the open for exposure, so the little snide remarks have disappeared, the emojis don’t show up as often. You can see everyone’s desire for that little ‘release’ occasionally, usually around lunch, someone will, in a lull in the conversation, throw out a meme or a joke or a really off-topic thing and people will all join in blasting away at it, then it settles out and back to work. I am actually quite impressed with how well we are all taking it. We are a technology company though, and I am in the tech side of it. I am hearing horror stories in other areas of the company, mostly around people unable to handle the isolation. Also some stories of families that coexist just fine during those evening hours and weekends, but those daylight hours are even now after only a couple days, wearing down the happiness.
A couple of my direct co-workers are married but work in different offices on our campus. This was straining to them in the first day. The snipes started being thrown by the end of the day. That night, they dispersed to opposite corners of their place and stopped trying to interact, they have gone so far as to set up schedules for breaks so they are both not running into each other in that time they used to never run into each other. I am hearing this quite a bit across the company, perhaps not to this extent, but certainly kids getting on peoples nerves, parents bugging kids. We have a Cope Board available on our internal web where people are putting (anonymously if they wish) their coping mechanisms in the hopes of helping others.
I’m a single guy that lives alone in an apartment, so this has all been basically an extension of my normal life, just without all the “going places and doing things”. I take it as a chance to really appreciate going bowling when we are eventually allowed to, just going to a restaurant with friends or family.
Hope you can pull something from that, good luck and hope you stay healthy and safe!
View of a pragmatist from Down Under
By the owner of a small MSP in Perth, Western Australia
Hi Mitch. At the time of writing we have the following changes are in place:
- All Australians currently overseas have been advised to return home as soon as possible.
- Major air carriers have announced they are grounding most of their fleet. Qantas has cancelled 90% of international flights and 60% domestic. Virgin Australia have cancelled all international and 50% domestic.
- Anyone arriving in Australia will be required to self isolate for 14 days with fines of up to $50,000 and/or 12 months in jail for breaches.
- Non-Australians from Europe, China and several other countries are being denied entry.
- Non-essential gatherings of 100 people indoors and 500 people outdoors have been banned.
- Businesses are encouraged to offer work from home options.
- Government is introducing subsidies and tax cuts to assist businesses suffering during this time.
- Supermarkets have been opening an hour early exclusively for seniors so they don’t have to fight the crowds for supplies.
- Schools are still open but lunch and other breaks have been staggered to reduce student interaction.
- Nursing homes are in lockdown with no children allowed to visit and no more than two visitors at a time.
- All sports, professional, amateur and junior have been cancelled.
- And the surest sign that the end is nigh, Bunnings have cancelled their sausage sizzles (all Australians know the significance of this).
What are we doing? We’re a small MSP who do most of our work remotely. We are cancelling all on-site visits wherever we can. If a full lock down comes we are preparing for our techs to work from home. We run a VoIP phone system so we don’t even have to divert — just set up remote handsets or use the app on mobiles.
We have noticed a lot of our customers suddenly wanting to use their VoIP phone remote capability. We also have some Office365 migrations pushed forward into the urgent bracket.
The biggest negative is our supply chain has been cut to virtually zero. We use four of the largest distributors in the country. A client asked me for a business notebook, 15.6″ screen, i5, 8GB RAM and a SSD. There were a total of three models available from stock across all four distributors — and that’s every brand. Australia wide. Getting components isn’t quite as bad so we are now seeing older machines being upgraded, a practice we stopped at least 10 years ago.
We are confident of pulling thru this period mainly because the most profitable part of the business is going to be in more demand — labour. As people set up their home offices they will need support and assistance. Once the all clear is given we expect there to be a mini boom period when everyone reverts to normal and plays catch up.
Personally I’m kinda hoping I catch this thing early, spend a week or two at home recovering and will be able to return to normal with immunity. There’s a pragmatist part of me that says I would have a commercial advantage over those that are still in lockdown.
The situation is rapidly evolving
By Kris in Seattle
“Rapidly evolving” pretty much describes the situation. First it began with my employer giving certain teams the option of working from home. Then a day later this policy was extended to all teams working in the Seattle office, but it was up to us to use our discretion in whether to come into the office. Next, it was pretty much mandated by the state (and perhaps other local governmental entities) that those that can work from should work from home. This all happened within a span of just a few days. Now we’re pretty much holed up at home, working in make-shift home office spaces (which isn’t always where others in my household want me to be!). I have the bare-necessities for being productive — laptop, headset, power adapters/cords — but not the multi-display setup I have at the office. My college-age kids are home for Spring Break this week, but may be back for much longer, taking classes remotely. We try to get out to support local businesses on a fairly regular basis, taking our food to go, since all restaurants are open for take-out services only. Yes, we have a little bit of cabin fever, but quarantining is much better than the alternative. Major shout out to healthcare workers everywhere that are doing their best under extremely challenging circumstances!
The impact from a consultant’s point of view
By Jerry Lackey, a Consultant in New Mexico
With the virus showing up in our state it has taken about 2 weeks for the ripples to hit my clients. I was anticipating this and talked to them about if they would like to work remotely from home. That was a resounding YES and so I got to work. As we all know we (meaning us techs in the trenches) have a wide variety of users with varying computer skill sets. With this in mind as a consultant I have to approach remote access with security AND simplicity. For the skilled users it was very easy for them to setup. For the unskilled I remoted in and set it up for them. So here is what I did- I created a remote package (folder really) with their name on it and had them copy it to their USB stick from the network. In that package (folder) I put a preconfigured RDP connection to their desktop, a VPN client, a link to their web mail and an unattended remote assistant installer just in case I needed to help them. Please keep in mind I am not dealing with national security secretes here so no judgement (lol). It was my job to quickly get this diverse set of users up and running with minimal effort (and cost) from them. So now they are at their remote location and they have everything they need to get connected to their desktop securely, send and receive email and receive remote assistance from me if needed.
This has resulted in a very smooth transition from working in the office to working at home. So far everyone seems to be happy with the remote access and support functionality. To all my brethren out there I wish you the same.
We started preparing when we heard the rumor
By Martin Urwaleck who manages IT for a public company in Vienna, Austria
Hi Mitch, when the rumor about COVID-19 started (and I had early information because we’re part of Austria’s critical infrastructure) I started implementation of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for an initial load of 100 users. It took my guys about 7 working days to implement everything from scratch. Since we already had a working software distribution it was easy to roll out everything on the terminal servers. In parallel we supplied VPN-enabled notebooks to critical staff so they have two ways of working — either VPN or Remote Desktop Services. As of today we have 2/3 of our staff working from home — and the number is increasing. Fortunately, we have more than enough Internet bandwidth — so we won’t have any limitations there (and I have already an offer for doubling our bandwidth within one day). We are now on the 3rd day of massive homework, but so far no problems. We are now considering adding nice-to-haves for our staff — the basics are prepared. We upgraded our estimate to 200 remote users — but so far no problem.
Working from home — so far so good
By Tom Overeem from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Our IT department has been growing so fast that I was offered to work from home 4 days a week, but now anyone who can is working from home. Fortunately we have a decent VPN infrastructure and nearly all servers are on the cloud anyway, so 100% working from home is viable, I have 3 monitors to use (FYI, most laptops will work with the VGA and HDMI ports both connected which give me 3 displays).
We did do a stress test over a week ago to be sure it would work, and so far so good.
It has actually provided us with a lot of extra work
By Wayne from Perth, Western Australia
Hi Mitch, I may have said it before but I recently went over to the Dark side, moving from IT support for an in house IT department to working for a small MSP. With the Corona Virus panic in full swing, we are daily getting requests to configure setups for customers to be able to work from home. We are fortunate that we encourage all our customers to go for the Watchguard range of equipment, making it easy to configure VPN access for clients. We also insist that all machines have Labtech installed for remote access support. I expect that as more staff work from home, there will be a requirement for us to provide remote support for issues with home computers.
Unfortunately with the requirement to provide home support, there will also be extra troubleshooting of home internet connections and inevitably the Australian NBN will be shown for the piece of politically hobbled junk that it is. Don’t get me started on conservative governments and their ability to sell a “cheaper and faster” patchwork instead of doing the sensible thing and cabling everyone with Fibre to the Premise.
As I said, I work for a small MSP, so small that there are only 2 of us, and most days I am the only one in the office. So the social isolation thing is not so difficult. However when I have to go onsite, I am particularly aware of handwashing, cleaning with wipes and will be looking into gloving up before handling people’s keyboards and mice. Given the scientific study results of a few years ago that keyboards and mice were dirtier than toilets, I’m beginning to think it may be a sensible option.
But for now the Corona Virus has provided us with a lot of extra work, and provided a lot of companies with options regarding work practices they may not have endorsed previously. Whilst it is a society changing environment, I suspect it may also be the making of many IT firms.
Currently the Corona Virus count in Western Australia is at 31 confirmed cases with 1 death, and all of these cases from travelers with no reported person to person transmission within WA)
I was supposed to be in Florida beside a pool
By Joanne, Director of IT of a Not For Profit
Today I am supposed to be in a Cabana beside a pool in Florida in 30C weather with people bringing me food and drinks. Instead I just came off today’s 2.5 hour conference call while working from home, with another scheduled for Friday and no idea what next Monday will bring.
Last Friday evening I left the office planning on getting on a plane to Florida to help celebrate a friends 50th birthday, despite several people telling me they didn’t think I should (I live in Canada so this would be crossing a border). News was already out that unnecessary travel should be avoided and I received an email from my boss that based on what he was seeing he would need me on standby if I did decide to head down. I had also received several emails from staff asking if they could equipment for home use Monday in case they were able to work from home. Saturday morning I got up, cancelled my flight (refund banked but who knows when travel will be back on) and cancelled my hotel ($ down the drain). By Monday am I was in the office early and in the — has it only been 2 days?? – since then we’ve rolled out laptops to everyone who had desktops, had our telecom provider provision temporary softphone extensions to all the call centre staff (Sunday afternoon email sent out), and as many headphones as I could get my hands on quickly so everyone can participate in video conferences over the next couple of weeks.
The crazy thing that has made my life easier is: we had already rolled out inexpensive corporate cellphones to every single staff member with a time tracker app and approved people to start working from home which they are now using for communications as well. We’ve been rolling out laptops to access an ERP console to all our supervisors as well as finishing building a new training center; as a result of which I had 60 brand new laptops on hand. We had already rolled out Zoom for videoconferencing to all the senior managers and directors instead of them all travelling to our main office. Two years ago we migrated from a RedHat Linux POP server to Office 365. Three years ago we migrated to VoIP phone systems that allowed great flexible in routing calls, including the main reception #.
Our company has always been very spread out — 1500+ employees spread across southern Ontario — and so I’ve always been on the lookout for ways to keep staff connected regardless of where they were. Coupled with a year where we actually had money that could be invested, we are so far looking okay to weather the next 3-6 months or more of instability. Which I would not have been able to say during the Mers and Sars outbreak as well as the Blackout of 2003. So cheers for not only the advances in technology but our company’s ability to be able to take advantage of them. BTW, the one thing we haven’t done? Follow our beautifully written but never tested Pandemic plan. Guess that will be work for when things calm down!
Perspective of a small independent software developer
By Dennis DeMattia, Carousel Software in Spokane, Washington
Dr Mom, AKA my wife, demanded that I stay home, or rather in what we laughingly call my office, for the next month or so. I sent out an email to all my clients (that most of them will never read) indicating this. I have four of the warning signals that suggest I should isolate myself, the main one being I am 75 years old.
For the small independent software developer, TeamViewer is your (very expensive) friend.
Most of my clients are within a two hour drive of my office. If at all possible, I prefer to go to their site if they need help, if only to keep a personal relationship with those clients. By being there, it is easier to show them how the system works than just tossing a manual at them that they will also never read.
But, with TeamViewer, I can do about 95% of what my clients rely on me to do (that other 5% being some physical IT services that I do for them). It does take longer to accomplish most tasks, and it is a bit of a disruption for the client, since they have to let me log onto their workstations.
TeamViewer and similar such tools (I have also tried LogMeIn and AeroAdmin) primarily let me dial into their workstations and take them over. But they also allow me to upload and download files. TeamViewer even provides a Skype like interface to provide video feeds back and forth. My software provides a button to launch TeamViewer on their systems so I can connect. But even without that, the TeamViewer website provides a fairly simple interface for the client to download a run time copy of it.
The hardest part of all this is to convince my wife that I am actually working and not just “playing on the computer again”. She often sees my at home time as a good time for HoneyDo projects. Another reason I like to physically visit my clients.
Addendum: I also have a landline in my “office” for working with a client, which frees up my cell phone for other calls, becoming essentially a second line. And most important, a headset for the landline, so when I am helping a client on TeamViewer, I can work hands free.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Don Hill, Consulting Engineer, Cisco Collaboration, Heartland Business Systems
How has your IT work changed in light of COVID-19?
It’s like the old movie title: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good
- Announcement of the Corona Virus AKA COVID-19 makes its way to the Midwest. Our clients are asking “What can we do?”
- Plans are made, committees are formed, people in charge make speeches, emails, blog posts, etc.
- I go to the office. Most people are just laughing it off, but sort of concerned.
- The announcement from Venders for 90 free access to certain products and services for remote access.
The Bad
- The NCAA sports gets cancelled. March Madness has gone … MAD.
- Schools cancel classes, their calling it an extended spring break.
- Businesses tell people to stay home but still work from home.
- I go to the office no one there. Now I have access to multiple workstations, servers, and printers.
- I get elected to keep things running while I’m there.
- Now the calls, emails, texts, etc. roll in saying “I need remote access to …”
The Ugly
- I’m at the office. I have 5 Webex meetings going, It’s nice to have those workstations available to me.
- I’m setting up auto attendants and recorded messages for businesses. I’m also setting up software based phones for remote users.
- Now things get worse… The previous limit for VPN access gets exceeded. Crap… Now I have 20 calls going on to get more remote access.
- Now I’m adding licenses to firewalls expanding DHCP scopes for VPN, adding routes… Now a Very famous cell phone network has a problem…
- People calling in get all circuits are busy. Also when calling 911 from their remote softphones things get out of whack….
Uggg please tell me this is a dream. What happened to all that planning…
Maybe tomorrow I’ll call in sick. I think I have a virus.
Share your own story with us
How has the Corona Virus situation affected your work and life as an IT professional? How is affecting the business or organization you work for? What tips or warnings do you have that might help other IT pros weather the crisis? Email your own COVID-19 story to us at [email protected] and we’ll share it with our readers in our next issue.
Stay healthy!!
Tip of the Week
>> Got any IT pro tips you’d like to share with other readers of our newsletter? Email us at [email protected]
Identifying insecure LDAP bindings
Evotec has a blog post that may be of help to Active Directory admins who are concerned about Microsoft’s upcoming plan to disable insecure LDAP bindings:
Four commands to help you track down insecure LDAP Bindings before March 2020 (Evotec Blog)
https://evotec.xyz/four-commands-to-help-you-track-down-insecure-ldap-bindings-before-march-2020/
Admin Toolbox
>> Got any admin tools or software you’d like to recommend to our readers? Email us at [email protected]
Veeam® Availability Suite™ v10 is Veeam’s flagship solution that makes Cloud Data Management simple, flexible and reliable.
http://www.wservernews.com/go/rohvqdsh/
Are you looking for an alternative and low-maintenance option to archive your Office 365 emails? Then take a look at MailStore Server. It’s easy to set up and intuitive to use:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/3213p6tx/
The NETSCOUT OneTouch AT 10G Network Assistant is an automated 10-Gigabit Ethernet troubleshooting and performance measurement teste:
perfSONAR is a network measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths, and help to establish end-to-end usage expectations:
AaronLocker provides robust and practical application whitelisting for Windows:
https://github.com/Microsoft/AaronLocker
Factoid – James Bond would roll over in his grave
We didn’t receive any responses to last week’s factoid so let’s move on to this week’s:
Fact: Barclays has been criticized after the bank installed “Big Brother” employee monitoring software on computers in its London headquarters.
Source: https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-barclays-installs-big-brother-style-spyware-on-employees-computers/
Question: Has anything similar been done at your own organization? Or currently being planned? As the IT person have you been tasked to implement an employee surveillance system? How do you feel about such things, both on the giving and receiving end? All replies will be received in anonymity!
Email your answers to [email protected]
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Conference calendar
NOTE: Because of the concerns surrounding the COVID-19 situation some of these conferences may be moved online or even canceled. Please check the conference websites for the latest updates.
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Microsoft Business Applications Summit
April 20-21, 2020 in Anaheim, California
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/BusinessApplicationsSummit
Microsoft Build
May 19-21, 2020 in Seattle, Washington
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build
Microsoft Inspire
July 20-24, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada
https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire
Microsoft Licensing Boot Camps
For dates and locations see https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/training
Cyber Security Summits
For dates and locations see https://cybersummitusa.com/summits/
Other conferences
SharePoint Fest – April 13-17 in Washington DC
https://www.sharepointfest.com/DC/
Future Tech Summit – May 15 in Santiago, Chile
https://www.collabsummit.eu/en/
PowerShell Conference Europe – June 2-5 in Hannover, Germany
European Collaboration Summit – June 8-10 in Wiesbaden, Germany
https://www.collabsummit.eu/en/
Evolve – June 8-10 in Las Vegas
https://evolvetechconference.com/
RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan – July 14-16 in Singapore
https://www.rsaconference.com/apj
VMworld – Aug 30 – Sept 3 in San Francisco
https://www.vmworld.com/en/us/index.html
Interop – Sept 21-24 in Austin, Texas
European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (ESPC20) – Nov 9-12, 2020 in Amsterdam
https://www.sharepointeurope.com/
DevOpsCon – Nov 30 – Dec 3 in Munich, Germany
Podcast Corner
‘Keeps,’ ‘Stops,’ and ‘Starts’: It’s about time for time management (The T-Suite)
https://techgenix.com/podcast/the-t-suite/
Data Governance and Power BI with Melissa Coates (RunAsRadio)
Achieving Consistent Multi-Cloud Network Policy With VeloCloud (Heavy Networking)
https://packetpushers.net/series/weekly-show/
Public Cloud Repatriation – Is it real? (The CTO Advisor)
https://www.thectoadvisor.com/podcast
EARN IT Act targets crypto, Joshua Schulte to be retried on most serious charges (Risky Business)
https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/
New on Techgenix.com
Human Screenome Project: Dissecting our digital life
We spend a lot of time on digital devices, but little is known about the effects of this interaction. The Human Screenome Project is looking for answers.
https://techgenix.com/human-screenome-project/
Implementing high availability for Microsoft SQL Server running on Linux
High availability is essential for business workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server. And now this is straightforward even when you are running it on Linux.
https://techgenix.com/high-availability-microsoft-sql-server-linux/
Still on Windows 7 after Microsoft ended support? Here are some options
Still using Windows 7 and weighing your options after Microsoft has discontinued support? You have several choices, although doing nothing is not an option.
https://techgenix.com/windows-7-options/
Review: IT Pro Challenges All Access Pass
IT pros who don’t advance their skills will fall behind. IT Pro Challenges is a training program aimed at keeping your education current. Here’s our review.
https://techgenix.com/t-pro-challenges-all-access-pass/
How businesses must respond to the cybersecurity skill gap
The scale of the cybersecurity skill gap notwithstanding, organizations must use different human resource strategies to ensure they survive a cyberattack.
https://techgenix.com/cybersecurity-skill-gap/
Fun videos from Flixxy
Have you ever travelled to Japan? Here’s what may be in stock for you…
Genki Sudo – World Order: ‘Welcome to Tokyo’
Martial-arts master Genki Sudo and his band ‘World Order’ welcomes us to the 2020 Summer Olympics with an amazing slow-mo choreography tour through Tokyo.
https://www.flixxy.com/genki-sudo-world-order-welcome-to-tokyo.htm
Kyushu Shinkansen High-Speed Train
15,000 people gathered along the new Kyushu Shinkansen line on March 12, 2011, cheering and welcoming the 300 km/h high-speed train.
https://www.flixxy.com/kyushu-shinkansen-high-speed-train.htm
Japan’s Gigantic Underground Flood Tunnels
Tokyo’s flood control system has four jet-powered turbines which can drain floodwaters at an impressive rate of a 25-meter swimming pool per second.
https://www.flixxy.com/japan-gigantic-underground-flood-tunnels.htm
Precision Walking in Japan
A 30-second clip from a precision walking competition in Japan.
https://www.flixxy.com/japanese-precision-walking.htm
More articles of interest
Test Your Knowledge of vRealize Suite Components Updates
VMware’s vRealize Suite continues to evolve with new updates to popular components. Find out how well you’ve kept up with the latest developments in vRealize Suite 2019.
4 Considerations for Vsphere Disk Provisioning
To provision disk space in vSphere, consider the following: The size of data stores you require, thin vs. thick provisioning and two more considerations.
Learn How New Relic Works, and When to Use it for IT Monitoring
New Relic is one of many tools that can help an IT team track application performance and health. Before adoption, understand primary use cases and SaaS installation requirements.
What is Data Separation and Why is it Important in the Cloud?
Some enterprises avoid the public cloud due to its multi-tenant nature and data security concerns. Learn what data separation is and how it can keep your data safe.
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