What Happened To Down Time?
So PSN is down for maintenance today between, get this, 8am and 10pm. For those with a time telling deficiency thats slightly more than half a day through the middle of the day time and in to the evening.
Now I’ve been doing IT work for approx 14 years and never have I heard any one make the statement that it’s “ok” to take a network down during business hours or during peak times. NEVER. In this case I wager during the middle of the day probably isn’t peak but I’d guess 5pm-11pm when every one is off work and home from school is probably peak. I guess I give them credit for doing it closer to the middle of the week but wouldn’t 3am-5pm have been a better time?
Yet lately both in this instance, and where I work, it seems to be increasingly more acceptable to take something down when ever you darn well feel like it. Did I miss something? Are we becoming so reliant on our network 24×7 that it no longer matters when it becomes unavailable because it has to happen some time eventually any way? Or is it that we’re increasingly bowing to what management wants? The symptom is obvious but what do you think the cause is?
VMware @Home
Judging from the amount of traffic my old post found here has been generating over the past months it’s obvious running your own VMware environment at home is a pretty hot topic. In particular getting it to run on AMD hardware. So I’m going to go a little off script and just expound on tidbits I’ve discovered recently about VMware. Hopefully you find some or all of it useful.
First a little gossip! Every one loves gossip right? I just attended VMWare Forum 2011 yesterday via their online presence. All in all it was less technical than I would have liked but some good did come of it. The VMware vCenter Operations demonstration was awesome. In terms of managing large sets of VMs and being able to trouble shoot problems the UI is spectacular. I think they’d do well to find ways to implement that UI every place possible. Newish products are nice but the real dish was from a conversation I stumbled in to… (more…)
ARM Is The Future
I said it before here that ARM is in the process of mounting a coup of sorts. While poking around looking for something completely unrelated I ran across this little nugget of information about Dell being interested in ARM.
“We have been all over this. About a year and a half ago, we put a LAMP [Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python] stack on an ARM A8 core in one test,” said Paul Prince, chief technology officer for Dell’s enterprise products group…
They are looking at multi core ARM with a current Linux base. You can be sure that Microsoft, who had working prototypes of Windows running on ARM won’t be resting on their laurels when it comes to putting the software in these server environments. I’ll be keeping an eye out as this grows. You should too it’s probably in your future for more than just your phone.
