Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
11 Places For Geeks
Apr 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen the headlines over the last year or so: “The end of IT,” “No software,” “The move to cloud.” It looks as though the days of the geek are numbered. The capability to dig into the bowels of technology through the use of CLIs (if you need to be told what a CLI [...]
Betting On A “Good Enough” Network?
Mar 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As I write this blog, I’m sitting 27 storeys above the Las Vegas Strip, looking down on the concrete jungle that makes up this surreal place. From my window, I can see several of the major casino hotels; several smaller ones hide in the depths. Around me are six out of ten of the world’s [...]
It’s Not A Strategy To Stick A Pin In A Map
Feb 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud computing is touted as the answer — to pretty much anything and everything. For example, if you need elastic resource provision, use cloud. If you don’t want the cost of a facility and hardware plus maintenance, use cloud. If you want greater flexibility in on-boarding new employees and getting rid of old ones, use [...]
Going Green By Increasing Power Consumption
Sep 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This past weekend’s New York Times expose on the environmental dangers posed by data centers downplayed a major challenge facing all “green” initiatives. Data center architects are pushed today to balance reduced carbon footprint against many other factors, namely maintaining user experience. Case in point was a survey last winter of federal CIOs consolidating their [...]
Say No to Rube Goldberg
Feb 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I remember when my parents took me to the Franklin Institute of Science, where I was astounded by the museum’s wild and weird Rube Goldberg-like contraption. I’d shoot away at that pool ball, watching it roll through a maze of tubes and conduits, spinning wheels and gears, all just see it pour a cup of [...]
How Silver Peak Can Help with Federal Data Centers
Feb 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bandwidth, congestion, latency, and dropped packets are all common challenges associated with replicating data across a WAN. Any one of these problems can impede or even prevent replication processes from happening. These issues can also increase WAN infrastructure and support costs, which have a significant impact on the total cost of ownership (TCO) for offsite [...]
WAN Critical for Emerging Data Center Initiatives
Apr 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Every organization wants to save on costs and be more efficient and flexible. With the aim of achieving that goal, many are seeking out new and developing data center initiatives. The desire for scalable and on-demand capacity is particularly prevalent and as a consequence, companies making the move to cloud computing and virtualization for example [...]
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