A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture
August 24th, 2008Strategy: Serve Pre-generated Static Files Instead Of Dynamic Pages
August 16th, 2008How Disney Used Virtualization for Quick Launch of Movie Sites - CIO
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How Disney Used Virtualization for Quick Launch of Movie Sites
CIO, MA - 2 hours ago
With a window of 60 days to get the movie on the site, Disney's Interactive Media Group relied on a combination of virtualization, load balancing and ... |
VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization Delivers First Solution … - Business Wire (press release)
July 21st, 2008|
VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization Delivers First Solution ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 3 hours ago
VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining carrier grade properties in edge and core network elements such as ...
VirtualLogix Announces Carrier Grade Virtualization TMCnet
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This Word, “Scaling”
June 30th, 2008It seems that everyone on the blogosphere, including Divmod, is talking about “scaling” these days. I’d like to talk a bit about what we mean — and by “we” I mean both the Twisted community and Divmod, Inc., — when we talk about “scaling”.
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One of the issues that I continually deal with is the scaling of an application and its platform. I believe this author makes the point rather well.
SourceLabs Extends Self-Support Technology To Xen Virtualization … - Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung)
June 29th, 2008|
SourceLabs Extends Self-Support Technology To Xen Virtualization ...
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 1 hour ago
such as ‘libvirt.’ SourceLabs’ Self-Support Suite for Xen references solutions from Xen.org as well as platforms. SourceLabs’ Self-Support Suite supports ... |
Dell promotes benefits of virtualization with regional roadshow - AME Info (press release)
June 29th, 2008
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Dell promotes benefits of virtualization with regional roadshow
AME Info (press release), United Arab Emirates - 10 hours ago
Dell, VMware and Intel kicked off a Middle East roadshow that aims to demonstrate the benefits of virtualization to customers in the Middle East. ... |
Documentation Redux
June 27th, 2008156 hours.
That’s what it took to track down a solution to a problem with some Open Source software. The software was written in the early 2000 time frame, the last documentation update was in 2006. The scenario that we were designing was documented on a page written in 2004.
The issue we ran into must be something that someone else has stumbled into because it is a very basic piece of the operation of this piece of software, but, in perusing all of the available documentation, using google to find any possible references, looking through all FAQs, committed code, mailing lists, etc. the solution presented itself on a page last updated in January of 2000.
A three line mention.
That’s it.
The author of the FAQ written in 2004 that describes the process and documents every step save for one very important part. The three line mention in another FAQ, coincidentally written by the FAQ author in an email that was sent to a mailing list and included in someone else’s FAQ.
This is the inherent cost in Open Source.
We’re not using this software in an odd manner — in fact, the feature we were trying to use is one of the three fundamental uses. The software hasn’t changed much in the last 4 years, but, it just goes to show you that documentation is easily forgotton in the Open Source world.
Would I have it any other way? No. I prefer open source because we can develop solutions that give us a competitive edge, and, if we need to, we can change the code to fix problems that the developers won’t fix.
Often times our requirements are based on a business case which conflicts with some of the purist open source coders.
CentOS 5.2 ships with enhanced virtualization - eWeek
June 26th, 2008|
CentOS 5.2 ships with enhanced virtualization
eWeek, NY - 2 hours ago
Available for i386 and x86-64 architectures, the release offers new drivers and bug fixes, as well as improvements to the Xen virtualization kernel, ...
What happened to Oracle's Red Hat challenge? SearchOracle.com
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