Everyone knows that SmugMug is a heavy user of S3, storing well over half a petabyte of data (non-replicated) there. What you may not know is that EC2 provides a core...

I know I’m a little late to the discussion, but Brian Aker posted a thought-provoking piece on the imminent death of MySQL replication to scale reads. Â His premise...

The more time I spend working in the Information Technology field, the more I see opportunities. Usually, it’s simply a an old technology being consumed by a newer...

Here is a question I wanted to see answered on Plurk and thus far, there have been a lot of good suggestions. So who is your web host? topicm says 1and1.com Live...

The controls that developed around the 360 environment were all predicated on the primary concerns expressed by Finance management: that nothing interrupt processing...

A couple of weeks ago we visited HP Labs where Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Director of HP Labs’ Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory gave us a tour of the...

There’s quite a bit of buzz on the blogosphere from people I respect a great deal, like Jeremy Cole at Proven Scaling and Vadim at Percona, about MySQL’s...

OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why...

Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the...

PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the...

NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link...

I realize I’m already way behind blogging about other new Amazon Web Services features like the recent EC2 release with static IPs, availability zones, and user...

First: Â Very cool. Next: Â I think it’s interesting that Google has basically taken a sniper scope out and aimed it at a specific cloud computing target. Â App...

Ever since Peter over at Percona wrote about MySQL and swap, I’ve been meaning to write this post. But after I saw Dathan Pattishall’s post on the subject, I...

We are currently down as there seems to be a power outage at our data center in Switzerland. We know that sounds fairly ridiculous and it is. We are working on it and try...

In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified...

Sorry for the month-long hiatus, but I'm back at it again.  I ran across an interesting post on The Register that described a software solution from ScaleMP that...

With increased investment into datacenters around the world it is important to consider the environmental impact and factor in plans for reducing energy consumption...

DEFINITION: LAMP is an acronym taken from the initial letters of a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The...