Archive for 'Hardware'
Nokia just doesn’t get it - Open letter to Nokia E-71 Support
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When Nokia releases a Business Phone, what exactly do they mean by Business Phone? Does it means a business person can use the phone? Or does it really means it has all the features typically needed by Business person? I think it’s more of the former than latter. That’s why my recently purchases Nokia E71 keeps [...]
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Hot! - London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the [...]
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The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Yet another Microsoft Issue that is often hidden from those who purchase Microsoft only products and infrastructure. The TCO is not only upfront investment. It should also be lost productivity, time and money is cleaning someone else’s mess. “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total Cost [...]
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First Electronic Quantum Processor Created
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
I’ve been always fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking quantum computing and artificial intelligence in everyday computing. It won’t be far that the face of major computing will change to artificial intelligence doing quite a lot of things around us. This the one of the early steps towards that: A team led by Yale University researchers has [...]
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10 Reasons to purchase New Hardware during Recession
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by surendersharma.
Actually there may be many more, but here’s a short list: #1: Equipment still wears out As bad as an economic recession becomes, one fact doesn’t change. Power supplies, hard disks, motherboards, displays, and other components still fail. The laws of physics don’t rest just because the economy is in turmoil. Electrical surges still occur, mechanical failures [...]
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Non-biological Computer Viruses for a species known as windows
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
How true, According to SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman: To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. It surprises me that the number of viruses/malware for windows is in such HUGE numbers. And they are on serious rise! In 2007 Symantec [...]
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Raid Performance Shootout: Observed values for Hardware Raid-5 vs Raid-10
Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When considering server performance, Raid is the most common way to achieve disk subsystem performance. When you are on a budget, the choices are very limited. But isn’t that when your creativity hits the roof? We needed cost-effective servers for virtualized environment. So we ran some hard drive benchmarks to see what we can extract. We could [...]
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Running XenServer on cost effective hardware
Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
XenServer from Citrix is one sweet piece of software. It kicks all the others free Virtual Machines servers to shame. We have been using XenServer 5 for a while now and we get absolutely brilliant performance. However there are a few things to consider when choosing XenServer for any real world use. The Guidelines we use [...]
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Cloud computing for Business
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
With ever increasing need for computing, IT industry has once again created a new buzz word. Its called computing in the cloud, or more clearly, cloud computing. I wonder why cloud? Why not phantom computing or something of the sorts. From Wikipedia: Cloud computing infrastructure as of 2009[update] consists of reliable services delivered through data centers and [...]
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Virtualization at Aquevix
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
We at Aquevix believe very strongly in energy conservation. Virtualization of various servers is a sure shot way to achieve this. Currently we have most of our servers as virtualized instances on XenServer platform. Our base setup is as follows: Server with Quad core Xeon 4-8 GB RAM per server Hardware raid card with 128/256 MB RAM 4x 250 GB [...]