Opinion: The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »I think that all users (and maybe even some IT professionals) should read this article. Maybe then, us geeks will have a little understanding. Jeff Ello at Computerworld writes: Few people notice this, but for IT groups respect is the currency ...
Best Practice: Cabling an EXP810 to a DS4700
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in IBM, Miscellaneous | No Comments »We’ve been expanding our storage capacity here at work in the recent weeks. As such, cabling all of these IBM DS4700s and their associated EXP810s (full of glorious fiber channel and SATA drives) became a task. The question has ...
How Google Routes Around Outages
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Google, Miscellaneous | 1 Comment »No, that's not my title. The folks over at Data Center Knowledge have an interview with Urs Holzle, Google's Datacenter Operations Manager: Making changes to Google’s search infrastructure is akin to “changing the tires on a car while you’re going at ...