July 2010 Blog Posts (26)

What Data Centers mean for the World

Right now, I am attending the Imagine Cup competition in Warsaw. For those that don't know, the Imagine Cup is a Microsoft sponsored competition in which teams of students present software projects (based on Microsoft kits, of course) which aim for a better world. Specifically, they have to tackle one of the Millenium Goals of the United Nations. Today the six finalists from each categorie (I attended embedded and software design) got a… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 8, 2010 at 0:55 — No Comments

Why has it been so hard to deploy Data Center Monitoring?

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Added by Robert Schmidt on July 7, 2010 at 20:00 — No Comments

Something Wet Leaks from Google

(as you might notice: the further the Dutch football team gets in the World Cup, the shorter my posts. The next match for the Orange Army is on sunday, so no worries there) Do you remember when Google disclosed their server technolody to the world? They did so on 1 April 2009, making everyone think it was some kind of prank. That was also helped by the fact that the Google servers seemed... duct… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 7, 2010 at 0:09 — No Comments

The Big Red Button that IT is NOT

This week's issue of the Economist (a newspaper that I hold in high regard for its ability of both analysis and opinionating comments) features a cover story about what it calls 'the war in the fifth domain': Cyberspace.

For some reason, even the most prestigious newspapers make amusing slip ups when it comes to technology. While the Economist article has some passages that will make you chuckle ("Computer bugs bring down military e-mail systems". With 'bugs', they probably mean… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 5, 2010 at 22:58 — No Comments

IT is the real James Bond

First of all, let me express my absolute astonishment on the match of today. Holland played so-so in the first half, but what a second half. I am not a chauvinist, but it was a thrilling match and a great result. So good actually, that the Dutch actually proved again that the Twitter data centers are far from reliable enough. I haven't seen so many fail whales in quite some time. What will happen if China starts to play football well???

But I digress. All I wanted to do was point to… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 2, 2010 at 23:32 — No Comments

The Q2 Winners AND The Losers are Content Delivery Shops

Akamai has been an exciting force within the data center world for a good year now. At NetEvents 2009, they were awarded Most Innovative Company. Before that, they were steadily building a reputation.

This also shows in their results. As Data Center Knowledge points out, the application delivery company has shot up another 60 percent for the last uarter. That while the Dow… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 1, 2010 at 22:43 — No Comments