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I must admit - this deal would confuse me in many ways. Rackable’s value proposition of lower power and cooling through DC powered systems really doesn’t hold water like it used to - primarily because of the lower thermal footprint that the new generation of servers and processors have. Plus - Rackable has [...]

The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has preliminarily adopted the DomainKeys Identified Mail proposal being pushed by Yahoo, Cisco, Sendmail, and PGP Corporation. Assuming the draft (RFC4871 for all my fellow geeks) is formally approved end users could (finally) have a powerful tool that theoretically could reduce the amount of SPAM they receive in [...]

Because of my job, I end up discussing Google a lot. I believe that their story is amazing - and while I am often on the opposite side of the issues they champion, I do admire them for at least putting their money where their mouth is.
That being said, I’ve often found many of [...]

During the course of my work, I often am presented with problems that seem simple to solve.

Identify the issue
Isolate the cause of the issue
Address the cause of the issue (typically a breakdown in a process)
Test to verify that the process changes have fixed the issue
Congratulate yourself for solving the issue so efficiently

Seems simple doesn’t it? [...]

OK… I believe in Karma when it comes to things like this - but I thought this article was a good example of why carrier neutral datacenters are a much smarter choice than a single carrier one. Good sense dictates that when you engineer a network you build it with DIVERSITY (isolated fiber paths [...]