Author Archives: Nicholas O'Neil

Posted in Hardware, Opinion, Storage

Isilon one million, the fastest Scale Out NAS

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

-140 Isilon S200 Nodes. -One Volume. -One File System. -One Million+ IOPS for the SPECsfs 2008 CIFS and SPECsfs 2008 NFS Benchmarks. But first a proof point. Unlike many of it’s competitors Isilon aggregates system resources in every node to …

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Posted in Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Software

How to run multiple Adobe Air apps Tweetdeck

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Twitter columns can get pretty busy if your tweeting from multiple accounts. I wanted to find the benefits of utilizing 2 display monitors for separate accounts or in some cases the same accounts with unique columns per screen for tweets …

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Posted in Datacenters, Industry

The hunger for data center space

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

Is there too much new data space in the New Jersey Market? This question is asked over at datacenterknowledge.com where a recent article talks about industry related news and how New Jersey has become a key player region for infrastructure. …

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Posted in Datacenters, Industry, Opinion

Google and residents of 111 8th ave NYC

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google has no plans on getting rid of its existing data center and network tenants at its newly acquired 111 8th Ave. carrier hotel any time soon. In May, Google took the building’s remaining space …

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Posted in Events, Hardware, Industry, Servers, Virtualization

Logicworks Launches infiniCloud™ 2.0, Expanding Capabilities for Managed Security and Private Cloud Solutions

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

New York, NY – June 7th, 2011 – With thousands of IT professionals, technology enthusiasts, and cloud computing vendors converging on New York City’s Javits Convention Center this week for the annual Cloud Expo, Logicworks will announce a new release …

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Posted in Open Source, Opinion, RDBMS, Software

Open Source, Developers and the Database

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

I will discuss the database layer and at some point in the topic what open source tools are currently in use on some of the biggest media sites today.  I myself have been a systems engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL …

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Posted in Datacenters, Hardware, Opinion, Storage, Virtualization

High Performing for Big Data

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

The newly acquired Isilon products from EMC have revved up their ranges by adding new systems offering as much as twice the file throughout for top-end S200 systems.  The new said systems are capable of delivering over 1.4 million NFS …

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Posted in Industry, Opinion, Transactions

Massive SQL Injection, Is your credit card data secured with your vendors?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Nicholas O'Neil

In a recent 0 day release, Ars Technica announced a Massive SQL injection attack where numbers up to 700K of URLs have been compromised thus far.  The massive scale attack has injected code that is found on a number of …

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