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  • Putting cloud computing to use: the virtual cloud network and virtual data center.
    • This post is the next in my series about how to put cloud computing to good use. It’s no good unless you can apply it! Much has been made recently about cloud computing being insecure, mostly due to cloud tenants (or prospective cloud tenants) not having the same control of their portion of the cloud network as they would having physical servers and network gear sitting in their own equipmen

  • Saturday data center tidbits.
    • Up today is a piece about lamenting the state of Ethernet. There’s no argument that massive data center loads like Facebook’s need all the network capacity that can be thrown at them and 10GB Ethernet is almost certainly not enough. What struck me was the part about the college network’s wiring closets running at 98 deg F and the claim that there was nothing wrong with the HVAC,

  • The reliable data center, BlackBerry and the failure bandwagon.
    • Well, here we go again. Apparently, RIM has managed to barf the Blackberry Internet Service yet again (disclaimer, I’m writing this from my Curve). I’m fortunate enough to be using BOLT web browser and Twibble, so the only real things affecting me are email and Yahoo Messenger loss. This most recent of high profile outages leaves me wondering about the state of data center operations t

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