Everybody knows a person who is obsessed with the weather; who knows, maybe you are one. That is how my family is. As far as they are concerned, the television could stay on weather news non stop. They call each other to find out how the weather is “there”, even if the other person is only a couple of miles away. Except for me that is. I can’t stand waiting around watching reports of areas that have no affect on where I am. Internet weather reports are better, and at least I can get the information instantly. The problem is that since I live so far from a major city, most of the news does not exactly match my location. That is where the Professional Weather Center from La Crosse Technology comes in. Continue reading on Gear Diary …

VMware, one of the leading companies in virtual computer software has began hyping the announcement of their new cloud computing product. The announcement will take place on April 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM PDT as a live Simulcast. You can register to attend the announcement at VMware’s website. I am a big fan of VMware Fusion on my Mac to run my windows applications as well as their enterprise products, so I am very interested in how they will approach cloud computing… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Data Robotics has introduced the newest model of their Drobo storage system: the DroboPro. If you are not familiar with the original Drobo, picture a box that you can stick whatever drives you have laying around into. The Drobo mixes them together and gives you a large external drive that has built in redundancy, so if one drive fails your data is still safe. The magic of the Drobo is that if one hard drive gets full, you can just pull the drive out and replace it with a larger drive. The Drobo will automatically add the new space to the available storage capacity. In addition to doubling the number of drives you can store from four… Continue reading on Gear Diary …