Category: Infrastructure
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Cloud storage and the consumer – and some thanks
It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend (we have it a month earlier than the Americans because it has roots in being grateful for a harvest and our growing season is shorter. Or something. Apparently there are lots of reasons.) I’m thankful for many things, but one though crossed my mind earlier as I ordered some more […]
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Nike recycles old phone booths, kinda
This is pretty awesome: Nike invented a game in London that turned the city in to a board game for runners, but instead of checking in with a mobile phone (which most people might already have, but might not take with them on their runs,) runners log their activities with the city’s pay phones. Is […]
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Redudnancy, Redundancy, Redudnancy, Redundancy!
(Yes, it’s badly dated Ballmer joke) When we installed our new setup at our new data center, the sales team pushed redundant network equipment as a major selling point (our previous environment had only a single firewall and load balancer, but granted, the new team happened to be Cisco resellers.) I didn’t give it a […]