November 12, 2011I was asked recently whether I thought that, eventually, System Administration would require regulation, similar to how engineering and medicine require regulation. This isn’t an easy question to answer, even though I think about it quite a lot. I think the right answer (as much as any answer can be “right”) is that, yes, eventually [...]
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April 22, 2011Sorry for the cloud pun in the headline, I just couldn’t help myself. If you’re a somewhat active user of the internet, you’ve probably noticed that Amazon’s cloud service started having some problems yesterday. I thought about writing this blog entry then, but I held off. There are blips in every service, and I figured [...]
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April 29, 2009A while back, I moved our production site into a Tier 4 co-location in NJ. Our former primary site became the backup, and things went very smoothly. Now we’re continuing on with our plans of centralizing our company in the northeast of the US. To advance these plans, I’m less than a week away from [...]
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January 30, 2009Many thanks to Ian Carder for this blog entry! Over the past year we have replaced all of our remaining Cabletron network equipment with Cisco gear. Being a K-12 School District, we have to be extremely frugal where we spend out money. Often, this comes in direct conflict with going the extra mile to make [...]
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