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Heating up in Dubai
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 07:28.As the temperature start to drop in Dubai, one could easily be fooled by the press both in the U.K. and in Dubai that all is still "gloom and doom". All I can say is from personal experience, Dubai seems to be back to it's best. Alongside the traffice jams, buildings are still going up
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.
7 days to Optimise your connected world
Monday, 12 October 2009 15:13.I've just finished the first stage of a marathon. Two days have gone and five more to go, with the completion of IP09 and now off to Gitex in Dubai. I think that by the end of October my feet will need a rest!
Mobile broadband becoming a victim of its own success
Monday, 12 October 2009 10:46.I read with great interest an article from the BBC about the mobile broadband operators feeling the strain as more and more users become equipped with devices such as 3G dongles and smart phones to access the Internet. The core issue is whilst the number of network users is rapidly increasing, the available bandwidth is not with some network operators already claiming that the ‘current levels of use are crippling their network.’
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.
