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The Smart Panda Newsletter for March 2016
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March 2016 (+5)

Message From Wade:

April has arrived, did anybody see March?  Another crazy busy month in the books, we have more upgrades on the books, more systems being hosted and a surprising number of maintenance projects going. 

I am absolutely amazed at how many organizations feel that they must go it alone to do maintenance and upgrade work.  The time wasted as they read through the endless documents, work through all the kinks, and reapply patches because of mistakes, is truly stunning.  So for example a PeopleSoft Upgrade Maintenance Cycle takes the Panda about 40 hours to implement on average, and I have seen clients take months to implement the same package. When asked why they don't ask for help - the answer is consultants are expensive.  

A couple of years ago, I was at the accountant's office with all my spreadsheets that I had spent countless hours working on, proud of my accomplishment in my hands.  I handed over my papers, and instantly they found issues. So, they redid my books in a day. Instead of saying I was stupid, my accountant said - you are a computer consultant, we are accountants, going forward you do the consulting and we will do the accounting.  Yes their bill is expensive, but compared to me trying to do it, it's comically inexpensive.

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IaaS Datacenters can Share the Load

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a virtual package of servers of various sizes; storage; databases and network services like firewall, load balancing and content caching delivered from shared, multi-tenant data centers. IaaS is typically purchased on a usage-based, metered plan without contracts or term commitments, although reserved resource subscriptions are also available.

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Technical Blog: Windows - Add An Network Drive from Command Line

Every once and awhile you will be working away and with all the new protections in windows, you will have to run something as administrator. This is fine however, occassionally that program you are running will require that you access a network drive. However, sometimes, you may not be able to access that network drive because of the privileges.  If the network drive is mapped as you the user, the administrator will not see the mapped drive that you have.

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Panda + Community

In Like A Lion Out Like A Panda?
March really presented another extremely interesting month of weather for us.  Running in shorts, Biking in heavy gear, and flipflops to toques, you just don’t know what to do.

The good news is we got lots of running in, a little biking, and a lot of great service work.  The most exciting of which was the Curl For Kids Big Brothers Big Sisters event this month. 

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The Smart Panda - Thought of the month

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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plant seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
B.C. Forbes
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