So what exactly is cloud computing – well Ed Felten explains in the following video.
The video begins with an introduction by several Princeton officials. Ed’s presentation starts about 6:20 into the video, which runs 38 minutes.
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Video: What is cloud computing?
February 24th, 2008Biggest hosting outages of 2007
December 30th, 2007Golding (Othello Tech CEO) has a nice sum up of this years hosting outages, my favorite being his comments on Rackspace’s outage, although they are always claiming 100% uptime, but like all hosts they suffer downtime 
How untidy is your rack?
December 6th, 2007Having brought a number of new racks online recently and installing/migrating servers, I realised something; its not all that difficult to keep cables tidy. So when I come across pictures like most of the ones below, I do wonder how people manage to get it this wrong.
The simplest way to keep cable tidy, velcro! Velcro is the king of cable management
Cable management is key to ensure rapid troubleshooting and high uptimes. The longer it takes to resolve an issue, the more your revenue suffers.
Taken from: http://www.berkeleyit.co.uk/server_room_builds.phpÂ
Impact of utility computing
September 22nd, 2007Great article on the impact utility computing will have on traditional IT, Bob Worrall has it right, IT is a critical element of every business, but keeping it running requires skills and assets that have nothing to do with anyone’s core business. In the future, the role of the IT department will be to source and integrate services for the users, and build (or at least design) custom apps that drive strategic value.
Berkeley IT have already started noticing this shift in the marketplace here in the UK. We are pushing more and more managed services as well as managed solutions (theres a difference).
It makes complete sense when you look at the IT demands now on most medium-large organisations, think manufacturing, finance/banking, media etc;
- £1000/square foot data center space
- Hardware experts
- Linux and windows experts
- Virtualisation experts
- Networking experts
- Security experts
- Storage experts
- DR experts
- Business continuity experts
The list goes on. We (Berkeley IT) still have a long way to go; on demand, business outcome driven, pay for what you use services are on the horizon. IT will never be the same.
Its a good time to be alive!
IBM Project Big Green – DC power `crisis`
July 16th, 2007IBM has built a data center in the virtual world of Second Life. It’s part of the company’s Big Green energy saving initiative designed to cut dramatically the power consumed by data centers. Not for an airy fairy save the world reasoning, but more importantly as businesses can no longer get the electrical power they need to expand and grow, making as the IBM video puts it “important capital investments” ie: buying more IBM kit
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