Virtualisation has really been a game changer. One surprise of virtualisation I have seen is that 10 physical servers can easily turning into over twenty virtual machines. How is this possible I here you ask. Well the company in question had started with one server. A exchange 2003 server and a domain controller. They had ...
I have personally reviewed about 10 data centres in Sydney Australia and London UK. If you are looking for co-location. This is to say your equipment in a 3rd parties premises. You don’t really have too hard a job to compare. Obviously the sales people and actually location will probably be the biggest or ...
Ceo had a problem with his computer not loading his profile. Turns out the profile is 90 gig. Usual afair desk is in a mess, broken iphone, had to step over the files on the floor to get to the desk. Main concern was that he might have to configure his itunes again. Now you ...
I once worked for a big telecoms company that are no more. We moved to a new office and had a new server room built. The racks didn’t go next to one another but in two separate rows. Not sure what went wrong but we ended up getting 6 metre patch leads and throwing ...
one company I started to worked for had a BT MPLS half installed at 4 sites at a cost of 70k UKP per year. That one took a fair bit of working to get configured mainly giving all servers information of where the other servers were located. To get internet to break out of ...
