links for 2010-08-25

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StorageRap: There's something about 3PAR I like Marc Farley's list of what 3PAR does well. I've known Marc for a few years now, and I hope Dell ends up with 3PAR, partly because that'll make it easy for me to buy their gear, partly because that'll be the third time Marc's employer gets bought out by them. 🙂 Hehehe. Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer I officially propose we take away Microsoft's Borg status and give it to Google. They're evil, plain and simple. Harvard scientist found guilty of misconduct "Sometimes data is wrong out of ignorance. Other times it's wrong because people make stuff up. I can understand the former, but why you would ever do the latter is beyond …

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links for 2010-08-14

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Micron intros SSD speed king • The Register Most notably: "It is a single-level cell (SLC) product with 34nm process geometry and Micron says its endurance is terrific: 3.5 petabytes can be written to the drive in total before it wears out, equivalent to writing 1.9TB/day continuously for five years." It was just a matter of time before the write cycle problem was dealt with. Google: Bidding process for California's e-mail contract was designed for Microsoft win | ZDNet Perhaps California has needs that are met better by Microsoft products. But I think this sums it up: "In the end, Google did not submit a final bid because it felt that it could not win in a contest where the …

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links for 2010-08-13

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High Scalability – High Scalability – Strategy: Terminate SSL Connections in Hardware and Reduce Server Count by 40% A) The Packet Pushers guys are great, and I quadrupled my knowledge of Cisco 10 Gbps gear during a short trip across Seattle with Ethan. B) They’re dead on about terminating SSL somewhere else and saving 40% of your load. It’s something that I’ve already added to my VMworld TA8102 presentation about performance tuning. FTP uploads validation with Intel® SOA Expressway – Intel Software Network Blogs “However, sometimes you should support legacy systems that use other protocols for information exchange, for example, FTP.” Um, no, you should never support legacy systems using FTP. FTP needs to die. The 1980s called and wants their …

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Three Organizational Decisions That Help Me Virtualize

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Over the last ten years my organization has come a long way with its IT policies and processes. We’ve gone from the wild, wild west of IT where personal heroism ruled the day, to a place where there’s just enough process to make sure that communication happens correctly and things like our Configuration Management Database (CMDB) stay up to date. It’s been a lot of work, but I am actually really proud of where we’re at. There are three fundamental decisions we made a long time ago that, had they not been made, would have drastically changed how virtualization has proceeded here. 1. Clearly defined maintenance windows. Knowing exactly when someone can do maintenance on server has been crucial to …

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Youth

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“Hey, do any of you guys have an old, full-height hard disk lying around?” This was a relatively new person from another group in our organization. People occasionally come looking for random old equipment to use for training & examples, because they know we have things like original IBM PCs, Cisco AGS+ routers, token ring MAUs, and 1200 baud Multitech Multimodems on hand. “Sure, I’ve got a full height drive, one second.” I produce a full-height 600 MB Imprimis SCSI disk. Made in the USA, so it’s pretty old. It’s a bookend on my bookshelf. “What in the heck is that?” he asks. “Um, a full-height drive?” I reply, really wondering what he thinks he’s asking for. “No, man, I …

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links for 2010-08-04

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Illumos Aims to Free Oracle's Open Source Software — ServerWatch.com Good luck to them — personally I think it would be wiser to start implementing anything you want to save from OpenSolaris in Linux instead of forking the project (I know, it's not a fork, whatever). Solaris is on its way to being dead, people, killed by Oracle. Start making plans to move on.

Get Away to VMworld Contest

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If you were thinking about going to VMworld but can’t make it due to finances Gestalt IT is running a contest where the winner gets airfare, hotel, and a conference pass. This is a very compelling contest, and to win: Entrants must explain how they plan to “pay it forward” if they get to go to VMworld. Will you start a blog? Write some tutorials? Contribute to a forum or online community? Present to your local VMUG? Get creative and spread the wealth of knowledge you get from the event! Our panel of judges is made up of none other than the most-excellent roster of past Tech Field Day delegates! They’ve proven themselves to be independent-minded and knowledgeable, and we’re …

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links for 2010-08-03

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Blades Made Simple » Blog Archive » A Plea to VMWorld Attendees Kevin is always full of good ideas: "This year, IF you receive a bag or backpack that you just don’t want, please don’t throw it away, but instead take it home, go to the dollar store and fill the backpack with pencils, crayons, paper and erasers and donate it to your local school system."

Oregon Trail: The Movie

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One would think this is off-topic, but for techies it really isn’t. I present to you the official trailer for The Oregon Trail. Very well done! Makes me proud to have grown up in Minnesota (MECC == “Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium”). If you want to play it Classic Gaming has it and a copy of AppleWin.

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