Posts Tagged ‘datacenter’
Cloud: Start Thinking IT Service Delivery…
Few of our clients understand the difference between operating a cloud infrastructure and operating a traditional datacenter, but it’s not that they’re dumb; it’s just that the whole idea of cloud is new and different. There aren’t a lot of fully functioning cloud infrastructures out there so, obviously, there’s not a lot of personnel experienced running those infrastructures. With this post I want to explain what it means to run a cloud infrastructure and by that I mean I will explain the difference between what you know now versus what you need to know—and change—later, when you’re faced with operating one of those beasts. Read More »
GreenPages’ Journey to the Cloud – The Vision Is Complete
Imagine taking the entire core infrastructure of a $100 Million company, loading it into a couple of trucks, and driving it 60 miles down the road to a colocation facility. Add to that the challenge of making sure a 24x7x365 Managed Services organization stays running, even while some of their key systems are bouncing down the highway in the aforementioned convoy. And, for the icing on the cake—throw in the pressure of knowing that, if you screw it all up, odds are you’ll be looking for a new job, likely something along the line of “you want fries with that?”… Read More »
Back to Basics: Part 1 Memory Configuration in Nehalem and Westmere 2 Socket Servers
One of the joys of working at a company such as GreenPages is the different people and resources I have access to in solving customer problems. That may sound strange, but there are so many deep technical pieces that touch, or are an integral part of, virtualization and datacenters that very few people can know everything. I have experts in storage, networking, security, etc. that I can leverage to solve whatever solution I am working on architecting for a client. Read More »
