James Dimmer III

Alfredo is not necessarily Alfred from Naples, (although it may be and he is probably a nice fellow) it’s the key to self discovery and a way to express your love or gratitude for those you care about.  Really, it’s a true expression of love from the kitchen.  To help you improve the quality of your life, let me share my recipe for success.

Ingredients:

1 dose of Pavarotti courtesy of www.pandora.com (cranked loudly)

3 Candles

1/2 cup butter

1 – 8 ounce package of cream cheese

2 pieces of garlic

4 ounces mozzarella cheese

2 cups milk

3-6 ounces of mozzarella cheese

Black pepper to taste

Bacon crumbles – salad bacon bits are fine but ONLY real bacon

2 bottles of quality local white wine

1/4 cup white wine for the recipe the rest is to show love for your guests..

(Make sure you have 2 bottles, one for the preparation time and one for dinner)

Surf to pandora.com and create a Luciano Pavarotti station.  Crank speakers up so the opera vocals fill the house.  Light candles one in the kitchen and two others near your guests.

Set the tone with a glass of wine, pinot grigio is a  good choice.  If you are local to Michigan there are a few good wines like a Traminette from Sandhill Crane *

Melt butter in medium saucepan taking care not to burn with too much heat. Add cream cheese and squeeze garlic with garlic press while whisking mixture until melted and smooth in texture.  Slowly dribble the milk in as if you were making gravy.  Smooth out solid chunks as cheese melts.  Stir in your cubed Mozzarella and Parmesan cheese whisking violently until the mixture is smooth.  Monitor temperature and make sure that the heat is low just melting the mixture.

Prepare your pasta al dente ahead of the Alfredo, and allow it to rest while making the sauce.  When the sauce is ready (smooth) all of the butter will be absorbed into the mixture, and you are ready to add the bacon and 1/4 cup of white wine.

Whisk wine and crumbled bacon into sauce and remove from heat.  Serve with al dente pasta and you can even mix in some cooked vegetables for a fantastic feast !

Chill wine glasses, and serve !

If your guests don’t smile, turn the Pavarotti up louder and serve more wine !

* According to the sandhill crane website …

Gold medals – 2007 Taster’s Guild Int’l. Competition & 2007 Michigan Wine & Spirits Competition & 2006 Jefferson Cup Invitational -American Example of Greatness award. Fruit forward flavors with hints of lychee, other tropical fruits, and citrus, along with the spicy sweetness of its parent, Gewürztraminer. $15.95

Ever wonder why companies are pushing so hard to outsource and move services outside the business location ?

Some say that these moves are meant to decrease costs…  this may be so, however in many cases it makes sense to move the data off site.  Think about centralized computing as a reallocation of resources closer to the core or backbone of the internet.

The closer your data and centralized computing is to the internet, the faster the speeds of throughput and the lesser the amount of delay in computing and data transfer from ANY location.  The idea is to push the computing away from “edge” sites on the network and provide these services from the backbone allowing for greater flexibility.

Imagine a world where all Ip Centric services are delivered by the data center at lightning fast speeds to any location via the internet !

Voice, video, data, IM, Presence, chat…   Any service developed and delivered via IP is able to be utilized with minimal hardware on the remote site.  Even VPN can be delivered from the data center to a remote user allowing smart devices to serve remote employees and offer a full suite of services to communicate with.

In the event that the IT staff desires to offer offsite backup a copy can be maintained easier from data center to data center via fiber to another data center on the fiber map.  The costs of services once the data lives on the backbone is decreased by moving to the core or backbone.

Data center tactics are alive and well let me know if I can help.

Telco Joe