A real-world problem that defines "big data": How do you move massive volumes of data across long distances? Just dump 300TB of data onto a USB drive and ship it. Sounds like a great idea, but a few problems arose. 1) They don’t really make 300Tb USB drives. One provider has some 20TB USB … [Read more...]
Long-Distance vMotion, Stretched HA Clusters and Business Needs
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A great Q&A about long-distance vMotion, stretched HA clusters, and such by Ivan Pepelnjak. Ivan's a networking expert, but he has gone deeper into the various VM-over-distance technologies than anyone I know. Just go read it: Long-Distance vMotion, Stretched HA Clusters and Business Needs … [Read more...]
Openstack, Lock-In, Support Costs, and Open Source Free Lunches
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
After Bob Plankers got a lot of response on his first blogpost, he'll discuss some of the points made with these comments and discussions. “*You* control your destiny with open source solutions and this is why open source is so broadly adopted in the enterprise.” – @randybias “You can … [Read more...]
10 guidelines for creating good looking diagrams
February 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Frank Denneman gives valuable information on how to make great diagrams. If you've read Frank's blog or his books, you know why you should read these 10 guidelines. A picture is worth a thousand words, but don’t draw a giraffe after you wrote three paragraphs about the feeding habits of … [Read more...]
Using XenDesktop 5 with VMware
January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This pretty much says it all: In this blog post I am going to go over using XenDesktop 5 with VMware. You've gotta read Jarian Gibson's article, Using XenDesktop 5 with VMware, if you're going to attempt this! … [Read more...]
Microsoft Windows Server vs Chevy Camaro
January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A fun comparison of Microsoft's continual updating to Windows Server to Chevrolet's updates to the classic Camaro. Derek Melber lists some changes to both and tries to answer his core question: I think Microsoft, with their changes to Windows Server (and the client), are on the same path. I love … [Read more...]
Why Is Cisco Bothering with “Open” EIGRP?
January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Here's a thoughtful piece by Anthony Burke over at our friends, Packet Pushers. Cisco is introducing an "open" version of EIGRP, but why? And how open is it really? What Cisco should have said in its announcement was that, “Cisco EIGRP is now an open standard, but…” Read more: Why Is Cisco … [Read more...]
Long-Distance vMotion, Stretched HA Clusters and Business Needs
January 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ivan Pepelnjak explains why getting the business needs right is so important: Based on a true story ... A while ago I was sitting in a roomful of extremely intelligent engineers working for a large data center company. Unfortunately they had been listening to a wrong group of virtualization … [Read more...]
Detecting Un-fair Wireless Usage
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
John Herbert points out one surprising issue with Wi-Fi Intrusion Prevention systems: It deactivated an awesome science fair project! I had the pleasure this weekend of being one of the judges for my county’s Educational Technology Fair (the winners of which then feed up to the state Educational … [Read more...]
Your storage in the Cloud
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Hans De Leenheer comments on the various cloud storage offerings from TwinStrata, CloudBerry, StorSimple, VMware Octopus/Horizon, Amazon, and others. Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, bleh bleh bleh, ... get over it, it is all called CLOUD and it will remain that way for a while. What … [Read more...]