I’m frequently out and about and on trains (usually between Guildford and London), and always try to make good use of the time. The ability to work anywhere is important to me, and I think I might have finally cracked it! Up until recently I had been using a massive Dell Inspiron 9100, which is [...]
“So, do you use Cisco firewalls as well as routers?”, asks the client; “No, actually.” is our response. Why, you might ask? Surely if you are running over a thousand servers and managing hundreds of individual firewalls you must be using Cisco or some other branded “firewall appliance”? But why must we? What is so [...]
Power is becoming ever more of an issue for data centres, and the prices keep on going up – doubling in the last two years! Not only that, but the energy ends up as heat, which then has to be air-conditioned (add another 30% to the electricity bill), and then it all just wafts into [...]