kate's infrastructure

• Couldnt say it better RT @cloudpimps: Live demo of PCoIP with 180ms has wowed the crowd at #vForumAust… #PCoIP rocks! #
• Great tools, bit who are the vCloud providers?Is the end user flexibility going to be dictated by them rather than the platform? #vforumaust #
• VMWare talking the springsource acquisition – what are the developer considerations for PaaS? #vforumaust #
• Compelling keynote from @herrod to kick off day 2 of #vforumaust – worth arriving on time for #
• Kate's Inf Reading: Why Is NetApp's New Data Center So Efficient? Big Fans and Hot Air: .. http://bit.ly/VYSg9 #
• Left the cloud-centric discussions for a speil on Vmware performance best practices from @drummonds at #vforumaust – crowdsourcing topics #
• Crowd seems interested in VMWare performance for SQL and different array config. And we're go… Starting with good arch diagram #vforumaust #
• #vforumaust @drummonds saying vSphere achieves 90% of native performance on 4 way VM + new HW. Examples given are SQL and Exchange. #
• #vforumaust "force hardware assist on newer processors" – where new is last 18mths; perf improve up to 17% @drummonds #
• #vforumaust set large pages on tier one OLTP apps like SQL, SAP. Improve perf on a VM. Challenge: is there really a workload not for VM? #
• #vforumaust we were there but good summary: RT @iTnews_au: VMware demos RDP killer: Smarter than the average protocol. http://bit.ly/1EHfqC #
• Disappointed I can't stick around for the end of @hartmant 's preso on vCloud. Looks worth a download later, even a venn diagram #vforumaust #

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Articles I found interesting today:

• Why Is NetApp’s New Data Center So Efficient? Big Fans and Hot Air
• Teradata unveils SSD Blurr appliance

Articles I found interesting today:

• Pack Up Your Data and Leave Whenever You Want, It's the New Rule of the Cloud

Articles I found interesting today:

• Cheat sheets galore for free, just print and go

Articles I found interesting today:

• Sidekick failure rumors point fingers at outsourcing, lack of backups

Articles I found interesting today:

• Cisco UCS News: New Servers and Making Waves in the Magic Quadrant
• Top server virtualization challenges: Backups and bottlenecks
• The Role Of IT Operations In Archiving

- In the days of cheap storage archiving still isn’t dead as a concept. Articulate article on the role of IT.

• Evaluating Netbooks in Education: A Discontinuity in Mobility
• Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 and ESX 4.0
• VMworld 2009 linkage redux
• Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites

- IIS / Microsoft centric, but pretty exciting looking updates. I’m particularly keen on the web deployment tool for IIS (http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool).

• Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q4)

- A good reference point for common issues in Windows server 2008. I’m hoping to spend more time in the platform soon, so am noting for future reference

Articles I found interesting today:

• doubleTwist’s Amazon MP3 Store: Another Reason To Ditch iTunes

- Potential itunes killer, unless you’re in Australia Im guessing…

Articles I found interesting today:

• Removing "Reply All" Functionality for Outlook Users Who Participate in Reply-All Storms, via Group Policy: the "Techy Stuff"

- Preventing organisation-wide replyall craziness in Exchange. Probably more sensible approach than my desire for immediate dismissal of the employee responsible.

• AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Dowloads
• DB2 Virtualization

Articles I found interesting today:

• Amazon Kindle Now Shipping To Australia (And Worldwide)

- Via Gizmodo