Richard joins Canonical as Vice President
After 4+ amazing years of running a startup, I’ve decided to pursue a new opportunity. Our.News will continue, in very good hands, without me, while I undertake my next journey. Today is my first day at Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux operating system (and many other great products), as their new Vice President of Global Support.…
Optimizing Magento on VMware vSphere
Magento is a high performance, scalable eCommerce solution used by more than 240,000 merchants worldwide.
Website speed and performance is critical with all eCommerce websites, however Magento’s flexibility can sometimes yield slow page speeds when not optimized. This technical blog contains several suggestions for optimizing Magento’s performance when running on Linux with VMware vSphere ESXi hosts.…
Optimizing a Dell EqualLogic SAN for ESXi
Dell EqualLogic SAN’s provide a robust storage platform for small businesses, and are especially ideal for use with VMware vSphere. This blog contains several suggestions for optimizing the PS Series SAN Environment for use with vSphere. This is intended for advanced VMware and SAN administrators.…
Entrepreneurs Acquire Information Tech Services Company Pantek Inc.
Congrats Pantek! Looking forward to working with the new management. Staying on as CTO.
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150708/NEWS/150709823/entrepreneurs-acquire-information-tech-services-company-pantek-inc
Four local entrepreneurs — Michael Fischer, Tony Pietrocola, Michael DeAloia and John Farrall — have acquired Pantek Inc., an information technology services company in Independence.…
Will Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable Linux’ break the OS? | Computerworld
I was recently asked by ComputerWorld to comment on Oracle’s new ‘Unbreakable Linux’.
Read the article and my comments here:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2547950/linux/will-oracle-s–unbreakable-linux–break-the-os-.html
Richard Zack, president of Pantek Inc., a Cleveland-based provider of Linux technical support, warned that customers should wait a year and let Oracle “work out all the kinks” before they consider switching.…
Ohio LinuxFest 2006 brings a record crowd
It was a privilege to be the presentation committee chair! “More than 1,000 people turned out on Saturday for the Ohio LinuxFest 2006 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center (GCCC) in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The LinuxFest featured big-name speakers such as Jon ‘maddog’ Hall, Chris DiBona, and Jeff Waugh, and live penguins from the Columbus Zoo.”…
Pantek Acquires California Ecommerce Web Hosting Provider CybrHost…
Pantek, a Cleveland, Ohio-based company that provides Linux and Open Source software development and technical support services, announced today that it had completed the acquisition of the assets of CybrHost, an internationally known E-commerce Web Hosting Provider previously based in Visalia…
“We are excited to add the CybrHost family of customers and service offerings to our growing business,” said Pantek CEO, Richard Zack, “Pantek now provides Linux and Open Source services to over one thousand (1000) customers around the globe who utilize the flexibility and security of Open Source.…