by wwarren | Aug 22, 2011 | Hardware, Linux, Swift Systems, Vendors
Ecc’s site(among others hosted here) has been spontaneously rebooting randomly over the past couple of days. The server is hosted by Swift Systems in Frederick and finally ECC and Swift personnel had to swap the drives into another identically configured server...
by wwarren | Aug 20, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source
Vmware is really easy but it doesn’t work with machines that do not have hardware assisted RAID. Most of my clients(including myself) don’t have enough I/O demands tht a hardware accelerated card is required. This is when the beauties of Linux MD(NOT DM)...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
While “clouds” on the internet are a terrible idea they do have their place INSIDE the building. I am currently building and researching exactly this type of internal cloud. In my shop I have two servers. At idle(which is where most of them spend their...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | Cloud Computing
Not if this trend by just about every internet provider type continues….at least not in the United States. Frankly given the rash of security problems and the fact this is old technology wrapped up into a new term it really needs to be scaled back anyway....
by wwarren | Jul 13, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Office, Windows, Windows 8
Listen to the podcast either at the linked article or download the mp3 here. Rumor has it that Windows 8 – the first version of Windows for ARM as well as x86 and billed as Microsoft’s answer for the PC to iOS and the iPad – will actually ship early: next April....
