A Perfect Home Office Setup for a Solutions Consultant
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A Perfect Home Office Setup for a Solutions Consultant

For a Solutions Consultant, the home office is more than just a desk with a laptop. It is where discovery calls happen, live demos are delivered and customer relationships are built through a screen. The perfect home office setup for Solutions Consultants should support clear communication, reliable demos, professional video calls and long working days without getting in the way. In this article, I look at the parts that actually matter: screen space, audio, camera positioning, lighting, ergonomics and network reliability. The goal is not to build the most expensive setup possible. It is to create one that helps you focus on the customer instead of the technology around you.
Building My Ultimate Home IT Rack
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Building My Ultimate Home IT Rack

Introduction For years, my home network was housed in an IKEA Besta cabinet—a budget-friendly solution that worked but had its limitations. The components sat loosely inside, with cables running everywhere, and the network was managed by an unmanaged switch and a FritzBox modem/router. It was functional but far from optimal. You can read about the journey of creating the cabinet to upgrading it in the two linked blog articles I wrote here and here. This year, I finally took the leap and upgraded to a proper wall-mounted 19” 15U rack, fulfilling a long-time dream. This new setup improves manageability, reliability,…
Yet another Home Office Setup
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Yet another Home Office Setup

In the recent weeks and months during the pandemic, I have seen many people sharing pictures of their home office setup to give others ideas about what works in certain scenarios and benefit from the experiences of others. I would like to tune into this and share my current home office setup - everything from the desk to the computer and camera. My Usecase The ideal setup does not exist. But if it does, it strongly depends on what you do at your desk. In my case, I am in online meetings most of the day - presenting our software…