Posts by Joe 48

Dear Google,

Please stop providing solid and good search results. Its making us look bad.

Regards

Bing Team.

Data Centre Porn

Great little piece. I'm sad enough I'd love a tour of these places. Or better yet to work in one! Still got to see some large Co Location Data Centres with some incredible kit but its not the same as a single company owned DC built for one customer.

So can

Android, IOS, Linux etc. Special thanks should be given to java and flash too.

Failure at all levels.

There is no quick fix. Failure at all levels in all departments. IT not securing networks and equipment when they have the tools to do it, users not understanding how to handle data, local auditor not doing any checks on how data is handled, I could go on. I'd question if half of them even knew the protective markings, let alone how that data should then be handled.

A while ago Central Government came up with some controls so help local councils protect and handle dat so they are trying, although badly, to make things better. Controls and regular IT health checks are now common place, they have yearly PEN tests from CESG approved testers. The tech is generally in a good place, its us humans letting the side down.

Been a few years since I've done any work in that sector but guessing the same issues still exist.

Maybe not the place

But I've been running Apples Beta as well as the MS one's. To be fair I've had far more issues with the current MAC Beta than MS on recent releases.

This isn't a debate about which is better. Simply stating Beta's, previews etc are just that, unfinished products. I'll save my breath for when this is full release. If its still failing short, then I'll pipe up about it.

Shame

Such a shame if this is true. I still think invicta on a blade in a UCS Chassis could have been quite a powerhouse.

Nutanix would make sense. Cisco have the hardware, Nutanix have the software, put it on 3100 series or what ever its called (Never really sell them) and you've got a decent hyperconverged setup. Better yet stuff if on 8 blades in a UCS Mini and you've got a monster. Using a UCS mini they could call it super-hyper-converged.... Or something similarly daft anyway. That'd be a monster setup!

I've downloaded the community version of Nutanix but still not testied it on a UCS Blade. The new Demo UCS Mini and Nimble CS215 should be here in the next few weeks so as soon as I've got a few deployments out of the way its play time!! I'll be playing with Nutanix first!

The slowest death ever?

Netapp are still making money as far as my limited understanding of their figures goes. How long will their death take? 10 years? At least by then we'll know if Nutanix or EVO-Rail have gained any traction or if they are still too busy making pointless blog posts about how shit each other is!

Netapp's original strength was smart software in OnTap, lets face it 8 years ago it was good, very good. By todays standards its lacking. Who knows what they've got in development but one of their issues recently was how long it took them to respond with cluster mode and how poor it was when it arrived.

The other issue is how they treat their partners. I'll be honest I've not installed a Netapp for a couple of years. Tends to be EMC or Nimble these days. Not because Netapp are doomed, simply because they've been a pain in the ass to deal with, deal reg's are going to larger partners and they simply don't seen keen to engage. EMC and Nimble are both keen to engage and are passing leads over all the time.

Due to their size and market I suspect they'll survive this blip, as long as they can innovate again. They might be doing it now, as far as I know they won't be publishing what they are working on right now. People have been predicting the death of traditional storage for years, yet I'm still installing them at the same rate I always have.

You have reminded me I need to stick my community edition of Nutanix on a couple of UCS blades and see it in action! Oh and I need to play with VMware Vsan and an EVO-Rail.

Just Email?

Odd that just email was extracted. I'd normally expect that to link in with other information a council would hold, like PI or information relating to the services they use via that email address. Seems a lot of effort.

Hang On

Is this legal? I thought all Gov Owned PI information had to remain in the EU.

My letter explaining what they do my my personal information must have got lost in the post.

Privacy

Next thing they'll be asking Facebook to pixilate all their faces so they can't be identified. Jeez, talk about a pointless process. Facebook and Privacy are not two terms that work well together.

The Camera Man

Was heard muttering something about "Missing".

Irritation

Ads might be an irritation but anyone they irritate, like us tech types, tend to know how to get around them.

Guessing the general public don't really care anymore. They blend into websites like its the 'norm'. I might test this later by seeing if the wife even notices ad's in apps and webpages.

Can't really see this fixing anything to be fair, except removing a revenue stream from a company who will be forced to come up with smarter ways of marketing, sorry, irritating us, and in turn we'll have to come up with innovative ways of blocking them again. If nothing else I suppose this will generate some smart ideas!

So basically

1.4 Million to make the below work with a 3D headset...

http://map.ipviking.com/

Curious

Do the smart meters work like one big, really flipping big, powerline adapter setup? Sending the data back over the power grid? Wonders about security......

Who cares

Some like watch A, some like watch B. Doesn't matter if its, expensive, cheap, functional or beautiful! What matters is if it does what you need! If it doesn't then don't buy it. Jeez, wish these things would talk about the tech.

In the News today

We have no news. They don't even invite you so why bother wasting screen space on a story.