Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Cisco ASR is Virtual to the Core, all 40 of them!
Posted by on March 14, 2008
Interesting article here on how Cisco have made heavy use of virtualization within their new ASR series router platform, Linux underneath and 40 core CPUs! This type of approach does make me wonder if we will get to the stage of running traditional “network” and “storage” services as VM’s under a shared hypervisor with [...]
Some Brief but useful notes for running Citrix under VMWare
Posted by on March 13, 2008
link here, short & sweet and a useful {old} VMWorld presentation here
All Your Implants Are Belong to Us
Posted by on March 13, 2008
Scary story here, not exactly practical – but a demonstrated attack on an implanted pace-maker/defribillator. Weird.
Performance Expectations on a Shared Virtual Platform
Posted by on March 12, 2008
Some interesting discussion linked-to within this article on Storagezilla. people using Amazon’s EC2 platform are complaining because they feel they are getting less performance than they should. Always an interesting point to bear in mind and useful in expectation setting for developers. You may want a dedicated CPU/core – but do you really need [...]
Google Apps Goes After Hosted Sharepoint
Posted by on March 12, 2008
Interesting new Google beta here called sites. looks to be a Sharepoint type setup for sharing documents and information and doing all that collaborative stuff thats so expensive and complicated on a Microsoft platform.. Check it out..part of the Google Apps “family” stuff like this is really going to start eating into Microsoft’s margins [...]
Ever Wondered How Your Traffic Arrived at this Blog?
Posted by on March 8, 2008
if you’re not in the same country as the wordpress.com server farms, chances are your HTTP request arrived here courtesy of one of these undersea fibre optic cables… fascinating stuff, you sometimes forget about the complicated (and expensive!) physical infrastructure that underpins your browsing on t’internet! More info on how this works here courtesy [...]
iPhone SDK & Roadmap
Posted by on March 7, 2008
Now, I’ve been a bit skeptical about the iPhone, I’ve played with a few – nice to use but very much a 1.0 product from a software point of view (great hardware – except for the battery), this link from engadget gives a transcript of the SDK announcement/press conference – more here too. Looks [...]
Microsoft Offering Hosted Exchange & Sharepoint
Posted by on March 5, 2008
Interesting to note this post and register post here of a beta version of hosted Exchange and MOS (MS Office Sharepoint) offered by Microsoft itself. Would assume this is one of the reasons they are building out vast new datacentres as they try to keep pace with Google’s range of online applications. Working for [...]
Information on BGP For The Rest Of Us
Posted by on March 3, 2008
Useful (if starting from an unrelated point) blog post on how companies deploy BGP – for people who don’t normally need to know this kind of stuff – I see a fair few organisations use it for providing network/carrier resilience at the network edge. Detailed networking isn’t my field but you always need to [...]
How to stop Terminal Services Clients Beeping!
Posted by on March 3, 2008
This always annoys me, when I connect my laptop via the MSTSC terminal services client it always beeps at logon; if it did this via the onboard sound card on my laptp that would be fine as typically it’s always muted when I’m in the office/on a client site as it’s annoying. However it [...]
