Facilities running the air-con in a datacentre has to be one of the classical IT anti-patterns. You’ve got your nice shiny datacentre, rows and rows of cabinets full to the brim with IT kit. Problem is, you don’t run the air conditioning, the facilities people do.
So what you say, the facilities people eat air-con [...]

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Over the weekend my wireless adaptor at home gave up the ghost. Not being the greatest fan of my wireless network at home (I find it too unreliable and slow) I took the opportunity to look at power line networking.
I took myself off to my local PC World and grabbed one of the Devolo Homeplug [...]

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Brendan over at Sentinel has a good post with some background information about Robert Aronsson, the co-founder of Intellipool, the maker of a rather good network monitor.
Darn, I was going to do that, but as you got there first Brendan, I may as well point to yours.
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“Few have made the connection between IT efficiency and green compliance” so says Steve Nunn in The Green Room, BBC’s green issues series. But I’m not so sure. I have noticed a significant increase in awareness at least in the IT press of the need to reduce power costs particularly in the Datacentre environment, no [...]

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As promised in the Senturion announcement post, here is the link to the Senturion page. We’ve ordered the first batch and expect delivery next week.
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With the move to more applications being accessed via the web browser I am becoming more and more reminded of the bad old days under Windows 3.
In the bad old days, if one application died it took all of your other applications down with it and any unsaved data as well.
Along came modern 32 bit [...]

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We are pleased to announce the Senturion rack temperature monitor. You’ve been asking for a rack mountable solution for a while and here it is.
Main highlights include:

1U 19″ rack mountable form factor, perfect for your data centre cabinets. Thin unit so it can be fitted behind other equipment to maximise your cabinet space;
Built-in temperature, humidity [...]

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It’s technical planning week this week, so I need to know about payment options you’d like to see.
Most of you have no doubt heard of PayPal and the new kid on the payment block, Google Checkout. The general idea with both is to help secure your credit card information by restricting who has access to [...]

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One of the big problems in a switched network is to access reliably network traffic for analysis or monitoring purposes. Many solutions require changes either to the hosts being monitored or require modifications to your network infrastructure.
Many managed switches have the ability to mirror the traffic on one or more ports. Mirroring simply involves the [...]

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