Archive for November, 2008
Legacy Compaq Proliant specifications
One of the things that can cause a dilemma for engineers and project managers alike is the specifications of servers.  I’ve written a brief few lines about each of these Compaq Proliant servers below – they would be ideal candidates for virtualization or consolidation.  Please note the specifications in your environment might differ [...]
rPath webinar on cloud strategy and virtualization
MarketWatch RALEIGH, N.C. — November 24, 2008 — With large-scale adoption of virtualization and cloud computing on the horizon, now is the time to start thinking about an enterprise-class architecture that can support the cloud while ensuring cost control and continued compliance to policies and mandates. Attend this timely webinar sponsored by rPath and learn [...]
Xiotech joins The Green Grid
The EarthTimes EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Xiotech Corporation today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. As a General Member, Xiotech will work to develop industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics and technologies to help organizations [...]
Defining a legacy system – is it time based?
The Register Last time we were interested in understanding a bit more about the state of our IT systems, and whether we were being held back by what we could loosely term ‘legacy’. Perhaps a trickier question to answer however, is how we decide whether a system is legacy or not. In the ideal world, [...]
What’s going on in the data center?
IT Pro New research released today has found European data centres are reaching their maximum capacity, with the majority running at 82 per cent. Chief information officers (CIOs) are, as result, ramping up their data centre rationalisation and consolidation efforts in an attempt to head off the any capacity shortages in the short term. Researcher [...]
Updated pages with documentation
Bladewatch documentation and Bladewatch resources I was trying to find a document that I’d written some time ago, and it occurred to me that since I’d re-designed the site, the blogroll has gone with links to all the documents I’ve published. Anyway, here’ they all are on the documentation tab of the site, with the [...]
Dell Remote Access Controller – DRAC 5
Dell Support Dell Remote Access Controller – DRAC 5 << return to results ——————————————————————————–  Release Date: 10/13/2008 Version: 1.40, A00 Other Versions  Download Type: Firmware File Format: Update Package for Microsoft® Windows® Other Formats  File Size: 18 MB Fixes: * Kerberos enabled Active Directory Authentication for Two Factor Authentication and Single Sign [...]
When is ‘unlimited internet’ not.
This could be seen as me being high maintenance and if this is something that you’re not interested in, I can only apologize. But it must be said. What do you define as ‘unlimited internet’ ? The reason for this is that I want to buy a shiny new Blackberry Storm. It’s available on the [...]
Three things I need to do next week
I thought I’d put a mental note on the blog for things to do for next week. Research more about IBM servers including the lights out card More about Dell servers including their lights out card EMC PowerPath, EMC reports and a few other storage type things. If you have any recommendations on content, do [...]
YouSendIt rocks for sending large files
Cnet File delivery service YouSendIt announced Thursday that it has released a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 that will allow users to send any file from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to recipients through the company’s service. Based on my testing, the plug-in, which requires registration to download, works quite well. After surfing over [...]
