Data Center

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers...

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:04:30 -0500

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." That quote has been misinterpreted for decades. Watson was talking about a specific model of computer which did have exactly 5 sales.

Billion dollar financial fraud revealed within Satyam, a collaboration partner of Cisco

Brad Reese — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:52:52 -0500

The above photograph shows Cisco chairman John Chambers and Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju announcing a collaboration that evolved into Satyam Global LifeNet (SGL), a joint venture between Cisco and Satyam. In his resignation letter this week, Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju listed the following financial fraud irregularities on the books of Satyam Computer Services:

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Consumers and 'green'

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:15:53 -0500

CO2 is necessary for life on this planet. Water vapor, i.e. clouds have a far greater impact on global temperatures than CO2. What's 'born every minute'?

What makes a product green?

EDunigan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:05:27 -0500

All the talk this week about green electronics at CES got me thinking. What makes a product a "green electronic"? When consumers shop the grocery aisles they are confused over organic. As an employee of an online database company, I hope the technology community does not make the same mistake. I wrote a recent post asking readers what criteria should be used to classify a product as green. http://www.trackvia.com/blog/?p=96

RE: 2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:00:20 -0500

2009 is also the 25th for Bicsi's (Building institute consulting services international)RCDD (registered communication distribution designer) designation. Now how geek is that?

Green that actually SAVES you money

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:19:08 -0500

We've come up with a geo-source cooling that would actually save money. It's unique to our area of the country - an area that ranks 5th cheapest electricity in the country. There are ways to save money and not have it in iceland but some people are too focused on one component as cost rather than see what advantages they get in one area that can offset another...

Why the Microsoft Solutions Framework is a good tool for System Center

Kerrie Meyler — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:58:46 -0500

The Microsoft Solutions Framework is a valuable yet often overlooked tool when working with System Center products. The MSF process model can be used as a roadmap for an Operations Manager or Configuration Manager project.

As Microsoft states at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785993.aspx,
the MSF process model divides the process of creating and deploying a solution into five distinct phases. These phases are:

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China CCIE count grows 11 times more than U.S.

Brad Reese — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:20:20 -0500

This week Cisco released the January 2009 net new worldwide CCIE count. According to Dual CCIE #18532 Security/Routing and Switching - George Morton, Ph. D:

"The trend from the last update done in November 2008 has continued to show that the growth in CCIEs is coming from outside the U.S. Using a five month average the growth during this period was just above the five month average. "Now for the U.S. you could argue that Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. played a role, and you might be right; but then why did Europe have more CCIEs in the same period?"

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great option

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:45:14 -0500

for anyone who has been waiting almost 2 years for a mac mini update.

Fiber Channel Over Ethernet

JimmyRay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:14:27 -0500

The year 2009. I remember as a young kid watching the movie 2010 and thinking; man alive! by 2009 we will be so advanced! Bases on the Moon and maybe Mars, cures for everything, no traffic jams and certainly an answer on how to unify transport fabrics in the data center. OK, I am just kidding around about the whole traffic jam thing.

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RE: 10 start-ups to watch in '09: a product roundup

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:22:48 -0500

Who are the ten startups?

Cloud-based e-mail is cheap, but Google is cheapest

Google Subnet — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:11:33 -0500

A new Forrester report detailed by ReadWriteWeb contains some interesting data for enterprises considering cloud-based applications. The first finding, that cloud-based e-mail is always cheaper than on-premises solutions for smaller companies with fewer than 15,000 users, may not be that much of a head-turner.

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HP and the mainframe

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:25:16 -0500

Interesting that the article says HP is staying away from the mainframe, while much of EDS's work is managing mainframe datacenters and maintaining or developing mainframe applications. Maybe from a tools perspective, HP are staying away from the mainframe, but in services, they still play in that area.

Cisco goes Hollywood with product placements

Brad Reese — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:09:09 -0500

Cisco product placements seem to be everywhere in Hollywood these days, catching both TV and movie viewers' attention.

In the recently released hit movie comedy, Yes Man, starring the hilariously funny Jim Carrey, a Cisco IP phone catches everbody's eye as Carrey's character, a bank loan officer named Carl Allen, rubber-stamps YES on all loan applications that cross his desk for approval, regardless of a loan's credit risk. Approving those hundreds of loans eventually made Carrey's character the top loan producer for the bank earning him a promotion "upstairs to corporate," along with a fat pay raise.

At the 2 second timemark in the Yes Man Movie video trailer below, you can see a Cisco IP phone prominently featured on the bank desk of Jim Carrey's character, a bank loan officer.

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Online Backup and Storage

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:21:16 -0500

Interesting ... Yes, I read the news release of CTERA here: http://www.backupreview.info/2009/01/06/ctera-networks-launches-introduces-cloud-attached-storage™/ It looks like that every one is jumping in the wagon to get a piece of the pie in the online data backup and storage ...

No downtime for EVA drive failures

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:48:39 -0500

"The EVA has all the RAID built in, so if there's a bad drive it will move the information off to different drives so you can replace it without any downtime," That's the theory. In practice, we experience application downtime due to drive failures on our EVAs about once every 2 months, normally due to drives that fail hard or take out a loop. This includes outages to our VMware infrastructure.

Muglia Promotion Secures Windows Azure Future

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:14:53 -0500

We all think of the Windows desktop OS and Office apps when we think of the power houses at Microsoft, but there's a new sheriff in town ready to paint the place Windows Azure blue. Bob Muglia received the Microsoft exec equivalent of an at-a-boy, being promoted to president of the servers and tools division.

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Florida becoming capital of counterfeits.

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:59:11 -0500

Proven major buyers of counterfeits/fakes/ substandard parts from china ( with the help of private trade association's support like ERAI, IDEA etc, who get commission from the scammers): USBID.COM TYTRONIX WORLDBASE.COM IC-TOWN.COM ICEURO.BIZ HYPERICFLORIDA.COM NOLEADTIME.COM (GLOBAL SOLUTIONS) AERI (aeri.com) STOCK-POINT O2XYGEN.COM AKA ORAFEC.ORG These companies together import millions of worth counterfeits/fakes with possible intention of selling it with huge profit. Today so many aircrafts and military critical equipments are attached with counterfeits. Above company's transactions ca

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Cisco activates crisis management team as global manufacturing hits new low

Brad Reese — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:19:19 -0500

Cisco has quietly activated a Manufacturing Crisis Management Team (MCMT) as the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) posted its weakest ever reading: Source: JPMorgan and Markit Economics in association with ISM and IFPSM. According to a Shipping Digest article: Fears of unprecedented disruptions to supply chains have prompted shippers to create formal crisis-management teams to keep their operations moving as the global recession worsens.

After finishing a three-week tour to discuss the fallout of the financial crisis with 250 executives at 150 companies around the world, Gary Lynch - Global Risk Intelligence Strategies and Resiliency Solutions Practice Leader Marsh, Inc. states: "I don’t want to overstate anything, but this is the first time I’ve ever really seen fear."

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oh brother...

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:31:37 -0500

oh brother...