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DroboPro Performance Testing Part 2

JT — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:37:10 +0000

My original post included a quick and dirty test on raw hard drive performance using HDTach to give me an idea of what I was working with with my new DroboPro. Of course true to any benchmarking test – there are so many metrics that can be tested that may be able to give me [...]

DroboPro Performance Testing

JT — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:25 +0000

Recently I was able to purchase and test two Drobo storage appliances. A DroboS with five disks and a DroboPro with eight disks. All the disks are the same size, speed, and manufacturer. The specs are listed further below for your consumption. The DroboS is attached via USB 2.0 to my desktop workstation – a Dell OptiPlex [...]

VMWorld and Work

JT — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:31:12 +0000

Image via Wikipedia VMWorld 2009 and many other VMWarevirtualisation topics are still rolling around in my head. So many ideas, so many paths… so many vendors calling me after the conference. Some interesting tidbits of discussions included baremetal VMWare View clients. In response to portable thinclients like the WyseMobile Thinclient, VMWare wants to install its hypervisoron your [...]

Latest Run!

JT — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:50:48 +0000

I’ve started running with Kathy a few weeks ago – she’s already kicking my arse, but supportive of my efforts to run. Nike+ and my iPod have made running almost fun. Feel free to add me as a friend if you’re out there… just don’t point and laugh – I’m a noobie in this endeavor.

Nehalem quietly

JT — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:20:53 +0000

I love deliveries. Especially this time of year. UPS, FedEx, AirTrans, carrier pigeon… I don’t care – it’s usually something expensive and always something that is going to make my job easier. Today, FedEx delivered a pallet of new HP servers and parts for our new campus. The pallet also contained a few parts for servers [...]

Windows 7 RC FTW

JT — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:32:16 +0000

I think Microsoft may have finally created an OS that can replace Windows XP. Of course I’m only speaking about my personal experiences with the latest incarnate of Windows, but it’s all pretty positive. Same spec’ed laptop as the Windows 7 Beta review I posted a while back. Running its native Vista 64bit installation, I [...]

Sophos ES4000 Active Directory Fun

JT — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:15:13 +0000

The college recently purchased a new Sophos Email Security appliance model. It was very easy to setup and I’m looking forward to having PureMessage filtering our spam and crapmail attacks, it’ll be a good thing. The Active Directory integration is not a polished as their Web Security appliances’ are. We have two WS1000 appliances, also from [...]

Rotten BlackBerries Make Good Whine.

JT — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:56:20 +0000

Now to be perfectly fair, I’m not going to blame all of my issues on BlackBerry or their Enterprise Server. I will however, consider their method of message relay and integration with our environment quite a hack and their support staff a challenge to work with, especially late at night. That being said… here’s my problem [...]

Silicon Valley’s Next Big Innovation: Pay Cuts

JT — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:24:31 +0000

Silicon Valley’s Next Big Innovation: Pay Cuts. Cutting 5% pay or lay folks off… HP made the right choice. Also an interesting quote from the story: MIT economist Martin Weitzman suggested in the 1980s that instituting pay cuts instead of layoffs could make recessions shorter and less painful. By setting base salaries lower and making pay more variable [...]

Desperate Sales People

JT — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:55:05 +0000

Today’s economy is really bad. Companies and the people that make them run are having a tough time staying afloat… these are things I understand. With that being said, I am tired of hearing from every sales rep in a two hundred mile radius looking to score a sale on something using an economical sob [...]