Upgrading Virtual Connect Ethernet to VC-Ethernet Flex-10 on an HP Bladesystem
We recently made the purchase to upgrade our two blade enclosures to HP’s Flex-10 Ethernet technology and last week, with the help of a partner, we performed the install and upgrade of the Virtual Connect domain. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 allows an administrator to take a physical 10G connection and partition it into up to 4 more appropriately sized logical NICs presented to a server blade.  Virtual Connect Flex-10 incorporates all of the benefits of Virtual Connect (previously explained here) while allowing for additional logical NICs.  A Flex-10 Ethernet interconnect module with two onboard Flex-10 NICs on a blade will allow for 8 total NICs – something formerly o

Apple ’slate’ coming soon?
A taped, internal meeting with New York Times folks has made its way onto the internet and it has become the latest fodder for rumors of the fabled Apple tablet.  Gizmodo and others have posted the Vimeo video of an “all hands” meeting of New York Times staff which chronicles and outlines objectives to make the journalist field take the leap towards new media, eliminating the divide between the web and real-time journalism and print products. Bill Keller, Executive Editor for the New York Times, is outlining a series of o

Google Wave is cool enough, but is it useful?
Its been a few weeks and I now have a few friends populated in Google Wave.  When I first received my invite, it was me, myself and I – ok, that’s just one person – on Wave.  I had to turn to the in:public search option to find any waves to try out the service. My friends and I have created a few waves and now that the novelty has worn off, I’m left with the question of where this fits?  Its not instant messaging, per say, and it is more collaborative, but I’ve found it frustrating (perhaps because of a lack of friends on Wave) to try and carry on a conversation with someone in Wave. But, I recall being the same way with GMail when I first

Developing posts
I’ve had a few posts stewing in the drafts folder here on the blog and I’m going to try and push a few of those out.  I can’t believe its almost been a month since my last post (ok, yes, I realize the Google Wave invite was not really a post).  I’m going to try and fill in a few gaps.

Google Wave invite has arrived
Overnight, I received my Google Wave invite.  So far, no one I know has a Wave account, I’ve sent out a few invites and hopefully later today, I can begin riding the Wave.  More soon…