I was having coffee with a friend and we talked about storage. His question was what I hear all the time: “Why in the &$@#() is it so expensive?” (Actually he did not say “&$@#()”. I added that for extra color.) But the logic goes like this, I can buy a 1TB drive for $100 at Best Buy. So what is the big deal? Why do I have to pay $1000,s per TB? By the end of this post you ...
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I have a penchant for finding humor in everything. When I was in the eighth grade, we read Macbeth and were assigned to write a report on any part that interested us. My paper was titled “The Humor in Macbeth.” I remember all this because the teacher made a spectacle of it and used the word “iconoclastic” to describe me. She then rolled her eyes and sighed. I could not wait to find out what iconoclastic meant and have ...
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Those of us who are pilots are always saying that flying is basically “hours and hours of shear boredom, interspersed with moments of shear terror.” I recently saw the youtube above of a midair crash between two planes from which everyone survived. They all had parachutes! There was a bit of a scramble to get out of the planes, but they all made it. Sadly there was once another situation some years back where ten jumpers with chutes were ...
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Yes, I am a fan of Wallace and Gromit. Is that augmented reality? Let’s see.
The first encounter I had with actual augmented reality was back when I was in the satellite industry. The geostationary satellite arc is on a plane which passes through the equator, at 22,300 miles above the surface of the earth. One of the main issues for an earth station installation is whether the earth station has an unobstructed view of the particular satellite you are trying ...
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OK – Let me first set the stage. I actually sell enterprise processing infrastructure and failsafe computer systems. I say to my customers, “We don’t care what software you run, we will just make sure it keeps running!” I like to begin the pitch with the foundation and build on that. The foundation is the facility – the data center. If you are trying to run a modern data center from a room in your headquarters, then you ...
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(Beware: Poetry alert.)
Today’s lesson will combine three unrelated topics into one unified theme.
The three topics are:
1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
3. Enterprise Content Management
(for you Sesame Street fans – which two do not belong?)
The goal is to combine the first two and illustrate the third. So here we go.
At our seminar on Enterprise Content Management at Alfresco ...
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Now for something totally different. I just watched Glengarry Glen Ross for the first time – maybe the last time. I haven’t felt so empty since I read Death of a Salesman. This is based on a play by David Manet, whom I do not know. Actually now I do know him. He is erudite and cynical. He is skeptical of capitalism and surely believes that no one wins unless others lose. The doctor dropped him on his head when ...
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I was touring the Atlanta Peak10 Data Center recently and one of the techs mentioned that it is such a mistake for a company to put their corporate computers in the same space where the people are. He pointed to the fire suppression and said simply “Water is fatal to computers!” He then told a story of how a certain company had their computers in a space that had been built out for humans. So there was a “wet pipe” ...
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For two days I was treated to the honor of being called “Doctor”, and chased after, as if I were a person of importance. Now I know how the other half lives. At first I assumed it was the suit. Then I assumed it was the slight graying on top. Maybe the erudite demeanor? They just persisted in treating me with honor and asking me my opinion. At first I recoiled and mumbled something dismissive. Then I began to play along. I would ...
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Hi,
My name is Bob Reid and the company is Protos, Inc.
Our tag line is “Advanced IT Solutions”
Sometimes, IT has been considered a necessary evil, but it has now become essential for competitiveness. There have been remarkable advances in IT such as cloud computing, social media, the ipad and iphone and virtualization. However, most companies are not positioned to take advantage of these advances. Our purpose at Protos is to intentionally move our customers into a secure, compliant and reliable infrastructure so that ...
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