Stace's Blog
Embrace cloud or die
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:05.It always amazes me when techies resist change. They owe their livelihood to the rapid changes in technology and the only reason we can do business with the global reach and ease of delivery today is due to the amazing developments that has taken place over the last 40 years. It reminds me of a saying , "the only constant is change"
Fusion-IO performance
Sunday, 18 October 2009 08:58.We got hold of a 80 gig Fusion-IO PCIe card and put it through its paces. All I can say is, WoW! It certainly lived up to the hype. I/O wait was reduced to nothing whereas before we could get 70% I/O wait when testing.
Scaling Network Management Systems (NMS)
Tuesday, 18 August 2009 14:54.Scaling Network Management Systems (NMS)
One of the big problems with scaling NMS is IO. With so many device resources being updated at once traditional hard drives just can’t keep up and cause massive wait issues. You can of course use RAM disks but then you have a persistence issue, if the box dies you lose all your data.
