December 2010
60 posts
“Young people don’t focus on old technology - I know you’re hoping...”
– Clouds of Change: Thoughts on how Cloud Computing will impact tech jobs
Dec 31st
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“Many political activists, nonprofits, and businesses use an anonymity system...”
– Home Internet with Anonymity Built In - Technology Review
Dec 31st
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“This is the IT operations equivalent of the 80-20 rule. It’s the idea that not...”
– Data Center Dialog: Making ‘good enough’ the new normal
Dec 29th
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“Start as a paid site from the beginning. The advantage of being a paid site is...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Pinboard.in Architecture - Pay to Play to Keep a System Small   I’ve been a delicious user since day one. At one point, I was even in the small list of most link makers. But after the acquisition, it just got slower and slower. Pinboard ain’t slow....
Dec 29th
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“3. The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly. We’ve sometimes referred...”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html
Dec 28th
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“Mass marketers have traditionally abhorred measurement, preferring rules of...”
– Seth’s Blog: Folk wisdom and proofiness
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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what I do now
It’s been a little over half a year since I joined Cisco as a “marketing manager” on the “architecture” team in the “data center & virtualization” group targeting “enterprise & mid-market” companies for the “central marketing organization (CMO)”. Translated into english, this roughly means that I do outbound marketing for...
Dec 27th
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what I do now
It’s been a little over half a year since I joined Cisco as a “marketing manager” on the “architecture” team in the “data center & virtualization” group targeting “enterprise & mid-market” companies for the “central marketing organization (CMO)”. Translated into english, this roughly means that I do outbound marketing for...
Dec 27th
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“Marketers are tracking smartphone users through “apps” - games and...”
– What They Know - Mobile - WSJ
Dec 27th
Dec 23rd
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“Cisco has enhanced the facility manager’s control over UCS blade server power...”
– Cisco’s Stocking Stuffer for UCS Customers: Firmware Release 1.4(1) | M. Sean McGee Very cool.
Dec 21st
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“Increasingly suppliers put their analysis and commentary of competitors’...”
– Analysis of Cisco case study - who should take credit for cost reductions | ZDNet
Dec 21st
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Coté’s People Over Process » dev/ops and cloud at Devoxx 2010
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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“One old trend: deperimeterization. Two current trends: consumerization and...”
– Schneier on Security: Security in 2020
Dec 16th
“Magnetic disk (10^7 nanoseconds): Magnetic storage can handle large, contiguous...”
– The Full Stack, Part I | Facebook
Dec 16th
“For historical reasons we draw a line at operations over data on the CPU or in...”
– The Full Stack, Part I | Facebook
Dec 16th
“Latency: How quickly are transactions supposed to return success or failure?...”
– The Full Stack, Part I | Facebook
Dec 16th
“onsider this harmless-looking SQL query: DELETE FROM some_table WHERE id =...”
– The Full Stack, Part I | Facebook
Dec 16th
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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A... →
Dec 15th
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“Low Cost, High Performance, Strong Security: Pick Any Three by Chris Palmer has...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Strategy: Biggest Performance Impact is to Reduce the Number of HTTP Requests
Dec 15th
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“What you need is a solution that is aware it is symmetric when it is and...”
– Like Load Balancing WAN Optimization is a Feature of Application Delivery
Dec 15th
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“I’ve used this analogy in the past, so I’ll repeat it here. I look at UCS as...”
– Why doesn’t Cisco…? | The Unified Computing Blog
Dec 15th
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“The first few customers who started to push us in this direction happened to be...”
– Stacks, the Vblock and Value — A Chat with EMC’s Chad Sakac | Blue Shift
Dec 15th
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“In this post, I’ll expand on this subject and describe why FCoE requires ENodes...”
– FIP, FIP Snooping Bridges, and FCFs (Part 2 – FIP Snooping Bridges and Fibre Channel Forwarders) - Brass Tacks
Dec 15th
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“Management simplification and abstraction. It turned out to be relatively easy...”
– Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » 5 Things I Learned At Gartner Data Center
Dec 15th
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“vSphere 4.1 introduces a load-based teaming (LBT) policy that is...”
– VMware: VROOM! Blog: VMware Load-Based Teaming (LBT) Performance
Dec 14th
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“Jacoby: We review, quarterly, 100 percent of the dollars we’re investing...”
– CIO Rebecca Jacoby Steers Cisco’s IT Ship - PCWorld Business Center
Dec 14th
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“The conceit alone — a man eating with his beard — that’s just weird. But...”
– Tom Kuntz - Old Spice Ad Director Profile - Esquire What if the mechanism is: by buying skittles, people are reliving the amusement/happiness feelings they got from the commercial.
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
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“On the moving train, Zoli peered into the dark twist of tunnels and assessed....”
– Theodore Zoli Bio - Genius Bridge Engineer - Esquire As goes bridge engineering, so goes data center engineering?
Dec 11th
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“This is the provenance paradox. A product’s country of origin establishes its...”
– Why You Aren’t Buying Venezuelan Chocolate - Harvard Business Review
Dec 11th
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Presentations from Midwest Regional VMUG -... →
Dec 9th
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“In my view, the correct perspective on using vSwitch in a network is to think of...”
– Why VMware vSwitch’s don’t scale, and isn’t Network switch – My Etherealmind
Dec 9th
“Second, it’s apparent that search and social infrastructure (Google and...”
– WikiLeaks: Moving Target - Renesys Blog
Dec 9th
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“Marketing is actually what other people are saying about you.”
– Seth’s Blog: The appearance of impropriety
Dec 9th
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“Cloud means the price is advertised rather than negotiated. Cloud means you make...”
– Perspectives - Amazon Route 53 DNS Service
Dec 8th
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“A cloud provider can achieve compliance (such as PCI — yes v2.0 even) such that...”
– From the Concrete To The Hypervisor: Compliance and IaaS/PaaS Cloud – A Shared Responsibility | Rational Survivability
Dec 8th
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“IBM XIV systems grew 112% year-over-year, but IBM had “spotty” performance with...”
– Storage revenues: NetApp, EMC, Ethernet on the rise - Storage Soup
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“EMC Cloud Architect (EMCCA) Virtualized Infrastructure certification provides...”
– EMC Introduces New Virtualization & Cloud Computing Training and Certification Programs to Advance Customers’ Journey to The Private Cloud » Welcome to privatecloud.com This is smart. EMC (surprisingly) is walking the systems and solutions company walk without the angst that may be caused...
Dec 7th
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“The company will use analytics to predict clients’ long- term costs of running...”
– IBM Adds Analytics to Data Center Services to Win Contracts - Bloomberg Wonder if this will work. It may depend largely on whether / how much they charge for the service. They’re choosing to compete directly with a lot of analysts. And, there’s no such thing as “data center...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Review on 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet... →
A 40 & 100G cabling & transceiver crash course.
Dec 5th
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“In fact, human behavior tells us that this is a more permanent effect than we...”
– Seth’s Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter
Dec 3rd
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“IBM and North Carolina State University this week announced a new “cloud...”
– IBM cloud patching system highlights virtualization research
Dec 3rd
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OpenStack Tutorial
Dec 3rd
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