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Technology to Simplify Parking
Now this is what I call progress! I wonder how many hours in a year we spend looking for a car parking space and then come back to find that we have a ding in the door or a scuff on the bumper (that’s...
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Server Virtualisation – How to Pick the Right Model
Great article here, which heads off down the path of direct attached virtualisation vs. distributed virtualisation. I hadn’t really thought much about it before. Anyway, what has it got to do with...
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How to Protect Virtualised Environments?
Here’s an interesting article from the Aberdeen Group about protecting virtualised environments. Some sound advice here about tiering your applications to understand whether they should be deemed...
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Zero Downtime Guarantee; Really?
Just managed to get back on my chair after falling on the floor after a laughter attack: here is another cloud provider that offers another 100% guarantee. Whenever you see that please please look into...
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UK server-makers weather Q4 sales droop
I guess it is no surprise to see a bit of a droop in UK server sales in Q4 due to the current economics and disk drive shortages … Here are some interesting nuggets from Nathaniel at IDC though,...
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Uptime assurance could have prevented stock swings
An algorithmic trading software bug is being blamed for a day of wild swings at the New York Stock Exchange – and has resulted in the trader placing the dodgy orders reporting a $US440 million pre-tax...
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Microsoft Cluster Duck
Oh dear, another problem with availability in the cloud. If you had moved all your data and entrusted it to a service provider, I am sure you would be pretty cheesed off by now. There is mention of a...
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It Takes Two …
An article here making an analogy between the lights going out at a football game and a corporate failure. The potential is to affect millions of people (viewers), which, I guess, is another way of...
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vmWare Enterprise: Fault Tolerant Enough?
‘An x86 mainframe on commodity hardware’ – so says Trevor Pott in this excellent article about Vmware 5.1 and he is willing “to bet his company on it”. It’s only when we get to page 2 that we get into...
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Virtualisation Experts on High Availability
Quite a few links in this article that discusses high availability for hyper-v, clusters, guest clustering and replicas. In fact, loads of information. Probably too much information. Take the simple,...
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