For the past few months we’ve had a donated storage server sitting in our storage room, with 8x1TB HDDs it was the perfect chance for us to supplement our daily tape backups with the speed of hard drives and move tape to monthly. The only issue was that the server came with a rather pants Intel Core2Duo processor that didn’t… Read more
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Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Getting the image ready
One of the great things about VDI is the ability to create a ‘golden image’, that’s one single image that includes the OS and Software which can be accessed from any endpoint. Whatever VDI software you go with will then take that golden image and duplicate it multiple times to provide the desktops for your users. However this masse creation… Read more
Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Intro
In this series I am going to be looking at how PCI-E SSDs can be used with VDI, I’ll be covering the hardware in use, the user experience and also why I believe PCI-E SSDs to be the best option to get your virtual desktops running as fast as possible.
How long does the battery last on Fitbit Ultra?
I’ve had my Fitbit Ultra for quite some time now and have been wondering just how long does the battery last? Well as the Fitbit website says 5-7 days but a little independent testing never went a miss so lets find out! Update – If you don’t feel like reading the whole post my Fitbit Ultra lasted a whole 18… Read more
SeaMicro and Opteron 3200 – its all falling into place for AMD
A press release today from AMD (AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers) seems all too convenient after AMDs recent purchase of SeaMicro. The basics of it all goes that AMD now has a server class processor with a low power consumption, high core count that fits in a desktop class motherboard all of which is perfect for so… Read more
3 months in – OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 in a Server
Its been a little while since posting What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server? and I thought I would give an update to its progress. After 2520 hours powered on (about 105 days or 3.5 months) the SSD is yet to give us any trouble – that’s while hosting 3 a fully active virtual machines… Read more
The Fitbit mobile world
As promised here is my article on the Fitbit mobile website! First of all I’m a strong believer that the future of the mobile ‘app’ world isn’t in making applications just for particular devices but instead making well designed mobile websites. Although the Fitbit team do have a iOS app they also have seen this light and also have gone… Read more
First thoughts about the Fitbit Ultra
I’m a strong believer that if you can monitor something well then you can make big leaps and bounds forwards. This especially applies to the world of IT; where for example, if you can monitor how fast a file server is running you can see if it needs a disk upgrade. Even more so this applies to the human body… Read more
Why I’m looking forwards to Windows 8 Tablets
Last year just before Christmas I was very close to getting a Motorola Xoom Android Tablet PC but after much thought I changed my mind and decided that I would wait for Windows 8. Looking at the reasons below most of these relate to my nature as a IT professional and how I would use the tablet at both home,… Read more
SSDs – almost at the £1/1GB price point!
After the previous article looking at the merits of a Solid State drive in a server I had a root around the Internet and found out that normal 2.5″ (Notebook PC sized) SSDs are nearly at the £1/1GB magical price point. The particular drive I’m looking at is the OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 from dabs.com which currently ships (free… Read more