kate's infrastructure

Articles I found interesting today:

• Uptime Institute unveils data center Operational Sustainability standard
• What does Government 2.0 look like?

Articles I found interesting today:

• Gov 2.0 Week in Review

- It will take me a long time to get through all the material in this O’Reilly Radar post, but I’m excited and interested in the Gov2.0 subject matter – particularly when presented by a company I respect.

Articles I found interesting today:

• IBM System Storage N series Hardware Reference

Articles I found interesting today:

• IBM System Storage N series Hardware Reference

Articles I found interesting today:

• COBIT 5 draft Design document available for public comment
• Novell drops NetWare support: What do millions of users do?
• What Makes Private Cloud Private?
• Troubleshooting: Cluster UI Says a Sever is Already Joined to a Cluster

Articles I found interesting today:

• Leave No Trace: How To Completely Erase Your Hard Drives

Articles I found interesting today:

• Our submission on mandatory ISP level filtering

- From Google Australia

• Telstra Increases Limits On Prepaid 3G Broadband

- Much more sensible mobile broadband deals from Telstra, I think perhaps they now realise there are viable telco alternatives

Articles I found interesting today:

• Understanding the 2 TB Limit in Windows Storage
• Windows Azure announced for Australia

- Good summary from Jason Cartwright on Azure announcement for Australia. The big key is the servers are located in Australia, which has long been a constraint for many of the cloud offerings.

• Veeam Software Annual Revenue Grows 127 Percent and Customer Base 300 Percent in 2009
• Double-Take Puts Disaster Recovery in Amazon's Cloud

- Conceptually a good leap ahead of many, and a practical way forward for many SMEs

Articles I found interesting today:

• VMware vs. Red Hat: The Next Virtual Machine Management Battleground
• What’s coming in WordPress 3.0.. ads multi-blog support

- I was just lamenting today that no one builds their own web based CMS’s anymore. But what I really meant was I’m a little in love with wordpress, and convinced they’re doing it right. WordPress 3.0 is on the horizon.

Articles I found interesting today:

• Dell Buys KACE – Virtualization Systems Management Appliance

- Interesting move from Dell – I assume this might be more to provide a useful single service bundled with infrastructure. Though potentially goes well with their Perot systems acquisition…