I was at the O’Reilly convention when Rackspace announced OpenStack and that was all anybody wanted to talk about after and for good reason. OpenStack will be essential to preventing vendor lock in and making sure that there are open standards for cloud computing. While…
Imagine a world without Wikipedia? On Jan 18 2012 Wikipedia gave people a taste of what that would be like and it felt like a return to a darker time, when you had to go to a library to look up something that may or…
VMWare recently put out an excellent guide on High Availability considerations in a VMWare environment. HA has always been one of those subjects where its super easy to make a mistake. Administrators often can’t see the whole network holistically, so they leave single points of…
The Bulldozer reviews for AMD’s new flagship CPU for desktops were underwhelming at best. Even with eight cores the chip struggled against the mere four cores of Intel’s bruteforce monsters. But what if the chips aren’t really tuned for desktop workloads? What if they’re better…
Many of you probably know that Facebook launched the Open Compute project. They custom designed their own data center and servers to take advantage of their very particular use case. After that, they did something amazing and open sourced the results. It’s an ambitious project,…
Anandtech is reporting that Nvidia has launched their long awaited quad (actually give) core system on a chip, the Kal-El (after Superman’s real name), that will be powering the next generation of Android tablets. If you aren’t into the Apple “walled garden” approach to their…
NixCraft is one of the best Unix/Linux admin blogs on the next. Sometimes it feels like half the time I do a search for a Linux command or issue, NixCraft comes up. I hope the author is rich and working a great job, because the…
Walmart announced today that it would cover more than 75% of its California stores with Solar Panels. It hopes to generate more than 70% of its power for those stores when the project is complete. It wasn’t long ago that businesses didn’t spend much time…
IBM believes the next generation of super-fast, ultra-dense storage technology lives in their labs. They call the technology “racetrack” storage, a nanoscale tech that promises speeds 100s of times faster than SSD, while scaling to dense, petabyte levels. With the massive explosion of data across…
My job as a computer consultant is to look at new computer technologies with a skeptical eye, so I can separate the hype from reality. In this article I tell you why cloud computing will never live up to the hype and why we as…
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