I’m back from my annual summer break (hence the lack of posts for a couple of weeks). I managed to resist the temptation to go online while away (partly because I only had access to the ‘net via a 32K modem and mostly because of the hard stares from my wife every time I went [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Symantec/Veritas announced this week the release of Netbackup 6.5. It seems to me like the company has been talking about this version of the product forever and as is mentioned on other blogs, there are lots of new features to play with.
The ones I’ve [...]
Continue Reading This Post →The Register reported last week that Emulex and Qlogic have announced the imminent availability of 8Gbps fibre channel products.
I have to ask the question…Is there any point?
Firstly, according to the article, the vendors of switch products aren’t clarifying their position (both have 10Gb/s technology already). In addition, [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Slightly off-post….
About 6 years’ ago on a previous life, I used to sell music online. That project failed, however one of the spin-offs I looked into was the concept of virtual jukeboxes. I guess the data issues were slightly storage related. A virtual jukebox would get its music tracks from a broadband connection and [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I read something today that quoted BroadGroup’s 2006 Power and Cooling Survey. It states that the average UK datacentre uses more power in one year than the city of Leicester.
Now, surely that means there can’t even be one average size datacentre in Leicester, or no-one else in the City [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve just had the details through of our new recycling “rules” at home. I now have *four* bins; one for bottles, one for green/garden waste, one for recyclables (plastic bottles, paper, etc) and one for remaining rubbish. Theoretically you’d think that there would be almost nothing in the main bin, but surprisingly, lots of plastic [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front over the last week, mainly because I’ve been away on business and I didn’t take my laptop ( ). I travelled “lite”, which I’m not normally used to doing and that meant taking only the essentials. In fact, as I didn’t have any checked baggage, I [...]
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