September 9, 2010, 7:40 am PDT  

16 item(s) containing the term "couple"

September Acceleration

— Whilst driving to work on the 1st of September yesterday I noticed that the traffic had picked up quite a bit and the school busses were on the roads. My commute took an extra 15-20 minutes; the busy season has pretty much started. Couple this with the fact that it was my first day back after a...
Sep 02 06:56:29 am PDT / EMC Feeds »

Live from VMWorld

— No shortage of excitement coming from this years VMWorld.  If you're not fortunate enough to be here, you can follow all the buzz over at VMWorld.com. I'm running around with Flip cam in hand and hope to get some content posted this afternoon. In the meantime, wanted to share a couple of inter...
Sep 01 12:19:28 pm PDT / EMC Feeds »

F5 Friday: It is now safe to enable File Upload

— Web 2.0 is about sharing content – user generated content. How do you enable that kind of collaboration without opening yourself up to the risk of infection? Turns out developers and administrators have a couple options… The goal of many a miscreant is to get files onto your boxen. The second step after that ...
Aug 26 06:12:30 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

So You Put an Application in the Cloud. Now what?

— We need to stop thinking of cloud as an autonomous system and start treating it as part of a global application delivery architecture. When you decided you needed another garage to house that third car (the one your teenager is so proud of) you probably had a couple choices in architecture. You could build a detach...
Aug 22 06:37:39 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

The medium is the ... squirrel!

— A couple of weeks ago, MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop per Child initiative, foretold the death of the printed book. Today, he foretells the death of book-reading: “I love the iPad, but my ability to read any long-form narrative has more or less disappeared, as I am constantly tempted to check e...
Aug 22 08:22:51 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks

— A couple of weeks back Greg Linden sent me an interesting paper called Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks. The principal of energy proportionality was first coined by Luiz Barroso and Urs Hölzle in an excellent paper titled The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing. The core principal behind energy proportional...
Aug 01 10:44:07 am PDT / Perspectives»

Cloudy View from HostingCon

— I spent a couple of days in Austin at HostingCon, meeting with a broad cross-section of the hosting [...]
Jul 21 07:48:06 pm PDT / CloudBzz»

The Drive-by Download Problem

— A couple of days ago I came across an interesting article by Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich. In this article, Mark hunts a random Internet Explorer crash with his usual tools: The Case of the Random IE Crash. He chases down the IE issue to a Yahoo! Toolbar. This caught my interest for two reasons: 1) the debug tech...
Jun 10 06:57:45 am PDT / Perspectives»

Your next laptop: Concept designs point the way

— Take a peek at laptops that roll up, sport multiple screens and imitate Transformers. While not all of these intriguing designs will make it to market, they show us what laptops might look like in just a couple of years.
Jun 10 03:00:00 am PDT / Computerworld HP News»

High Scale Network Research

— High scale network research is hard.  Running a workload over a couple of hundred servers says little of how it will run over thousands or tens of thousands servers. But, having 10’s of thousands of nodes dedicated to a test cluster is unaffordable. For systems research the answer is easy: use Amazon EC2. It’...
Apr 09 07:57:05 am PDT / Perspectives»

Using Curl to Access the Rackspace Cloud API

— I've been playing around w/ the Rackspace Cloud API quite a bit. Then, today I got an email from a reader of this blog asking me how it works more or less. So, I thought I'd post a couple of the examples I've been using. In the absense of a fancy GUI to control cloud servers I've simply been using Curl and writing litt...
Aug 02 12:10:26 pm PDT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Incomplete Thought: Virtual Machines Are the Problem, Not the Solution…

— I’m an infrastructure guy. A couple of days ago I had a lightbulb go on.  If you’re an Apps person, you’ve likely already had your share of illumination.  I’ve just never thought about things from this perspective.  Please don’t think any less of me You can bet I’m talking above m...
Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Proof Of How I Almost Took The Internet Down…

— I’ve tripped over it a couple of times. I’ve done things to it and with it that perhaps I shouldn’t have. I’ve even rebooted it once or twice. On Thursday, I tried — unsuccessfully — to once and for all take down the Internet. It’s he’s just too damned resilient for his o...
Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Cloud/Cloud Computing Definitions – Why they Do(n’t) Matter…

— A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece titled Cloud: The Other White Meat…On Service Failures & Hysterics in which I summarized why Cloud/Cloud Computing (or what I now refer to as Cloudputing has become such a definitional Super-Fund clean up site: To me, cloud is the “other white meat” to the Internet’s ar...
Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

2010 – It’s Time for Security Resolutions Not Predictions…

— November and December usually signal the onslaught of security predictions for the coming year. They’re usually focused on the negative. I’ve done these a couple of times and while I find the mental exercise interesting, it really doesn’t result in anything, well, actionable. So, this year I’m g...
Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Cisco and Citrix Deliver a Fresh Take On Desktop Virtualization

— In talking to our customers, one of the things that I hear consistently is that customers appreciate our open solution stack.  What does that mean?  Well, a couple of things—first of all, it means that our innovations are individually available—you can connect a UCS to any upstream Ethernet and Fi...
Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Data Center Networks»

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