Training the Next Generation of IT Engineers
Image Courtesy Sun Microsystems
Containerized datacenters. Take a standard shipping container, outfit it as a datacenter and sell it to the customer as a turn-key, instant-on solution to the problem of providing physical space, power and cooling for equipment. Microsoft proposed this and demonstrated it at a trade show in 2007. HP and Sun have also built commercial products for sale.
I spent this afternoon looking at Sun’s Project Blackbox which Sun is heavily marketing using the Internet Archive for one of their customer testimonials.
Here’s Sun’s solution: Project Blackbox
My Linksys Wireless Router (model WCG200) supports 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. I’ve never had problems with it. I currently use it exclusively for wireless access around the house with a WPC54G Linksys wireless adapter plugged into the PCMCIA slot on my laptop. I’ve tried a Belkin wireless access point and it just didn’t work–with anything. I’ve tried a Netgear wireless router (WGR614) which is faster in terms of total throughput, but the Linksys router is by far the easiest to configure and manage.
I’m currently performing a high-level survey of the products available in the Virtualization software space. Since the development of Xen, there has been an explosion of software to allow you to run more than one server on the same host. This series of posts will begin with a quick introduction to what Virtualization is, what it is used for and summarize with a survey of vendors and products.
I’ll be looking at three different kinds of virtualization software:
- Server Virtualization
- Desktop Virtualization
- Network Equipment Virtualization