Metrum moves to the cloud
Over the past few years, many life science organizations have dabbled in cloud computing and explored infrastructure-as-a-service, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and commitment. But one Connecticut company has decided to go for broke—transferring its entire IT infrastructure onto the Amazon cloud.
Building Open Grid Scheduler on CentOS/RHEL 6.2
How to build Grid Engine 2011.11 from source on 64bit CentOS/RHEL 6.x based systems.
Isilon Smart Connect and Linux DNS Servers
How to integrate Isilon Smart Connect load balancing with the Linux Dnsmasq DNS server package.
Backblaze Performance
First-pass performance data from the $12,000 135TB backblaze 2.0 storage pod project.
Real World Backblaze Costs
Our real-world, actual costs for building the 135 terabyte Backblaze 2.0 storage pod.
Why we built a Backblaze
After the last blog post explaining all of the sensible reasons for why you should never build a backblaze pod it’s time now to talk about why we did decide to build one.
Why you should never build a backblaze pod
Sobriety time. Here are all the reasons why you SHOULD NOT roll your own backblaze storage pod.
Awesome self-paced IPv6 certification from HE.net
Experimenting with IPv6 using the free online certification program from Hurricane Electric.
Panasas PAS 12 Unboxing
Unboxing the Pansasas PAS 12 storage array
OpenVPN & Tunnelblick for small business
How BioTeam protects employees who need a safe harbor while working via increasingly hostile public networks.