Category: hardware
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Cloud for Small Business – Hot nor Not?
Last week I offered Rodney Roger’s perspective on the place of cloud computing in the enterprise. His premise, with which I completely agree, is that current “enterprise” cloud offerings lack the breadth and depth of on-premise systems. To paraphrase him, Salesforce and Workday are not ERP. He’s absolutely right. He also points to emerging cloud…
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Harpooning the whale
One data set, two locations – each with an EMC VNXe array. Big giant file sets. How do engineers in the US and Mexico share 3D models quickly and seamlessly? We receive engineering drawings and models from our customers. We comb through the files extracting bill-of-materials information, critical dimensions and other vital attributes. A single…
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Servers in the closet
Well, here it is. Our “efficiency” server closet: Quite a change from our previous, spacious custom-deluxe server room. It’s not quite final in this picture. We’ve added another switch in the space between the chassis switch and the firewall. Cooling remains problematic. But it took a bit of work to get to this point. For…
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What happened?
Lots. Lots of changes in the last six months, and it’s been hard to keep up. But as you can see from the pics, our IT lab and server room are no more. 160 dedicated amps of power, 3.5 tons of dedicated air conditioning. Backboards on three walls, four NetShelter racks, cable ladder. Nice…
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Into Microsoft’s warm embrace
What’s an IT manager to do? That was the question I asked myself when contemplating VMware, Microsoft server and hardware maintenance renewals. At the time, VMware represented the best-performing and best-supported virtualization platform on the market. Our interest in server virtualization was not really about consolidation. Rather, our focus was disaster recovery. The ability to…