4cube Blog

We trust you will find the information that we share on our 4cube blog useful and productive for your business and personal affairs.

We believe that success in today's hyper-dynamic business and IT technology world is a community and personal relationship affair. The engine that helps us all progress forward is the free sharing of useful information, holistically, through the incredible magnifying glass of the Internet. Much success to you in 2015.

Events

January 20th, 2015 - Suncoast Technology Forum CIO Panel

A major Florida Suncoast Chief Information Officer panel luncheon, featuring senior IT executives from three major Sarasota County companies, will be held January 20th, 2015, 1130-1pm, at the Polo Bar and Grill, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202. Presented by the Suncoast Technology Forum and facilitated by 4cube's Director of Technology, John Sing, the panelists are:

David Massey, SVP/CIO, Bealls, Inc. – Retail
Paul Hoffman, President, SouthTech – Managed Services Provider
Terry Mitchell, Director of IT – PGT Industries – Manufacturing

Inspire your 2015 business by hearing a spirited, insightful discussion. More information and online registration here. 4cube is pleased to be a strong supporter of the Suncoast Technology Forum.

Previous 4cube events here.

Healthcare IT Industry resources

In 4cube's Florida-centric Healthcare IT practice, we believe in focusing on and providing value in the interaction between the clinical applications and the IT infrastructure. As such, healthcare-specific IT news and information is a primary focus area. Our clients tell us some of their favorite sources of Healthcare IT information are as follows - we trust that you will find them useful as well:

Healthcare IT News - offers healthcare IT executives timely, pertinent news, in partnership with HIMMS
HIMMS - Healthcare Information and Management Society - Global non-profit focused on better health through IT
Radiological Society of North America - RSNA hosts the world's largest annual medical meeting, a weeklong event in Chicago

AuntMinnie.com - community Internet site for radiologists and related professions in the medical imaging industry

IT Industry Resources and White Papers

In this section, we list some of the more valuable, pertinent general information IT resources and articles that we have come across at 4cube. This is a constantly evolving section, so feel free to come back and visit here often.

John Sing's 4cube IT Industry Research bookmarks - we're often asked: "what are some of your sources of IT information"? We bookmark our Director of Technology's daily IT industry research here, for you to peruse, read, and share as you wish.

Windows 2003 Server Migration - 5 Things You Need to Know - a very good paper on a very pertinent issue. This is the direct download link.

HP Networking: most of us are completely unaware that Hewlett-Packard is the #2 networking vendor in the world. As such, it's often nice to know how HP Networking gear compares/interacts with Cisco networking gear.

HP Networking - Cisco Command Line Interface reference - This is the 2010 version, useful to get started. There's a newer 2013 version in existence - contact us if you're interested.

HP Networking - Cisco Switching and Routing Interoperability Cookbook - in August 2014, HP released this excellent detailed document (down to the CLI command line level) showing extensive successful interoperability testing between Cisco and HP Networking equipment.