Awesome! VMware ESXi 5 on a Mac Mini Server! Here's Christopher Wells on how his install and upgrade process went. I can report that the Minis are working quite well and were successful at performing a "burn in" over the weekend. via vsamurai.com … [Read more...]
Revolution Wi-Fi: Are Apple iPhones Misbehaving on Wi-Fi
May 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Andrew von Nagy looks into a strange bug (?) in the Broadcom wireless chipset used by the popular Apple iPhone and iPad, along with many other portable devices. This issue threatens to lock out a network for no reason, a serious denial of service situation. The latest generation of mobile devices, … [Read more...]
Cisco Cius versus iPad versus HP WebOS – Year of the Tablets
January 6, 2011 by 1 Comment
So we got an early set of announcements about the Cisco Cius as part of the Cisco's Virtualisation Experience Initiative Cisco VXI Clients (VXI - Cisco marketing working overtime on a snappy name there). So far, the pitch on the Cius is that it will act as a thin client to VMware VDI and XenServer … [Read more...]
Mark Hurd’s HP Tragedy: Hoisted With His Owne Petard
August 9, 2010 by 3 Comments
Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet: "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his owne petard." Thus it is with Mark Hurd, hoisted by his own petard; ousted by his own rules. Shocked by his abrupt resignation, many speculated that some juicy scandal was hidden underneath. But the news … [Read more...]
Cisco Cius – That’s not Innovation, it’s ME TOO.
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Video isn’t necessarily a winner Cisco has been attempting to kick start the video market for ten years, especially IPTV (that’s why IP Multicast still exists). The telepresence stuff hasn’t been profitable yet, and videoconferencing market is so dire that Cisco went a bought Tandberg to pump … [Read more...]
iBlock?
June 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What can Apple teach us about Enterprise IT? Apple and Enterprise IT, words which don't really belong in the same sentence but perhaps we can learn quite a lot about the future of Enterprise IT by looking at Apple and its current strategy. Firstly, like many geeks I must admit to having a very … [Read more...]
Why Do I Ignore NAS?
May 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Why does network-attached storage (NAS) have such a poor reputation? This isn’t what the vendors want to be talking about, but some recent product announcements and discussions led to this thought. IT folks as a whole don’t trust NAS for real work, and 20 years of effort from big names like Sun, … [Read more...]
Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r
May 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Iomega's new ix12-300d brings EMC's SOHO company into the data center EMC’s Iomega unit today released the 12-drive rack-mount storage product we have all been waiting for. It was never a question of whether Iomega could produce such a beast: The EMC LifeLine software and Iomega hardware were … [Read more...]
Controlling Behaviour
January 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Two very different press conferences/product launches happened today; you can't have missed them. the iPad launch by Apple the completion of the Sun takeover by Oracle But actually they had a very common theme: control. Let's take Apple and the iPad and indeed all their products; Apple … [Read more...]
Are Microsoft and EMC beginning a renaissance of geek respect?
January 8, 2010 by 1 Comment
Making a list? Who's naughty and who's nice? Who’s naughty and who’s nice? The average computer geek of the last decade would have placed Microsoft atop the naughty list. The average corporate IT manager’s nice list probably wouldn’t have included EMC and Oracle. Yet … [Read more...]