I run a large backup environment with Tivoli on IBM pSeries. We carve the pSeries up into multiple LPARs which write to a physical library which is logically carved up. I have to separate the backup environments due to regulatory issues and virtualizing both the backup servers and the library makes things much easier for me. I can set up between 4-8 LPARs per virtual library, and given the horsepower of the pSeries that I'm using, I don't have a ton of physical servers to manage.

Should the public also have keys to the government offices? The reasoning around here being if we paid with our tax dollars for the software, we should get the source code. Should we also get all the keys to all the doors? Or should we just not have locks on the doors to the gov't buildings?

They know that there's more to life than being forced to stay home on the weekends because you're assigned the duty pager. Also that they enjoy not having to do things like "maintenance windows" at 2am.

There are plenty of female developers/QA engineers out there. Who cares if there isn't enough (how much is enough?) women in IT applying patches, deploying networks, managing storage.

btw: There's also a shortage of women zamboni drivers, male daycare workers and nursery school teachers.

nobody's writing an article about them...

Mount a LCD monitor on the wall or put it out of arms reach of the kid on a dresser with a webcam and some cheap PC speakers. Put the computer farther away using a 10ft VGA/HDMI cable.

Why make it so complex, does your toddler really need to touch the screen?

Also, nothing like exposing your kids to the benefits of watching TV when they're still in the crib. Instead of TV being the "new babysitter", it'll be skype.

eBay makes money in the form of micro amounts.

In your item to be sold...

Want a larger title?
Multiple colors
Pictures
highlighted in the listing...

All of these cost a few cents extra to get more "eyeballs" to see your listing and then eventually to click on it and hopefully to buy the item(s) you're selling.

Always wondered why I couldn't format my FB posts with bold/italics or justifications (left/right/center). Now, I can see them saying, "You want bold... that will be $.05."

Of course it would be really slick to have a setting similar to what email clients have which is to display all email messages, regardless of formatting as "plain text". Thereby getting rid of all the formatting people have paid for and display it in plain text (like it is now).

I work for a large fortune 500 company and i was recently told by an org that if I did x, y and z I could then put a 'badge of honor' in my directory profile. So basically I could link to some .jpg that says "I'm a super contributor". Now my company already has the ability to reward people on the spot for a job well done. It's a token cash award and any manager can give them out (a couple hundred dollars).

I might as well walk around with ribbons on my chest for "blogger of the month, webserver team!"

Nothing like telling the facilities team "ok, we're going with 21" wide racks and you'll need to replace all the floor tiles as well.

Also floor standing equipment (high end disk arrays and floor standing servers) are also made to the 19" standard (either 1-3 tiles wide and 1-2 tiles deep)

I know... this is for greenfield datacenters...

Ironically, Do you think he made his wife sign a prenup?

Isn't that pretty similar to the NDA that he's so much against...

If comcast just said that "CAP" was the amount of bandwidth that was used by a customer which left Comcast's network. Such that all traffic that stayed within Comcast's network did not count toward the customer's bandwidth limit.

Nobody said they had to measure it at the modem? Also, I don't believe how much traffic you use is part of this neutrality debate, I though it was around the speed at which it was used. So the same 1GB netflix movie is streamed at the same speed to the consumer as a 1GB xfinity movie.

Who modded this moron up? Obviously, he's never had to buy LTO-5 tape drives in bulk. I don't mean a few boxes totally 25 tapes, but hundreds and THOUSANDS of cartridges. LTO-5 isn't cheap. The enterprises may be upgrading their tape drives, but the cartridges that are often bought are LTO-4 because they are so much cheaper. Plus they can still be used in the LTO-4 drives, for which putting an LTO-5 media in an LTO-4 is a waste of $$.

This is why backup to disk is moving in. Media is expensive and restore times are slow. However, backing up to tape is actually quite fast. Still requires a pretty fast source and server to saturate an LTO-5 drive with compression.

Hello. FC over WAN is called FCIP. It's already here and used as an ISL (inter switch link) rather than a host to array (or array to array) method. Yes I know that EMC has 1GbE blades for their arrays which do replicate SCSI over IP, but that's a proprietary solution and doesn't scale. How do all the arrays move data from site A to site B? They plug into a switch via FC and then the switch encapsulates the FC packets in IP packets. Then it's up to good old TCPIP to get you to your destination.

FCIP isn't exactly cheap, but the alternative, FC over DWDM is quite a bit more expensive. Go price out your next Cisco 15454 and get back to us.