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Netflix Pinterest Instagram outage is not Amazon’s fault

June 30th, 2012 · 1 Comment · cloud computing

Amazon had an extended outage last night in their Virginia data center. This outage was a resulted of power interruptions due to storms in the mid Atlantic area. This outage created some very visible impact on public applications such as Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram. The first reaction by many on the Internet of course is [...]

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Tags: availability·cloud computing·DESIGN·Provider

VSPEX – EMC’s Flexible Reference Architecture Explained

April 12th, 2012 · 3 Comments · EMC, VSPEX

VSPEX is a pre-validated set of reference architectures currently focused around Server Virtualization (cloud computing if you want to church it up) as well as end-user computing (VDI/VXI/Application Presentation Solutions). It fills the gap in EMC’s solution offerings that exists between a design and build your own solutions and their converged infrastructure product (VCE Vblock).

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Darrel Hinshaw – New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage

My bud Darrel from our Dallas office passed his third CCIE this afternoon. I think Rick (5x CCIE) put it best in a company wide email earlier this afternoon  – From: Rick Davis Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:46 PM To: Technology Sales & Services Subject: Darrel Hinshaw – New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!! Please join [...]

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