archive for September, 2011

If it’s history you want, then you’ve clicked to the right place. From TBL headlines to blog posts, here you’ll find all the blinky bits and bytes.

Cisco Jabber for Mac–General Availability

Posted by on September 28, 2011 at 11:13 am

Cisco has released the first Jabber client for Mac OS X. The Jabber client supports both cloud based (WebEx Connect) and on-premise (CUPS) instant messaging and collaborative technologies. Cisco has made available or will subsequently make available the Jabber client for Apple iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows. As a WebEx Connect customer, we’re [...]

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What Fantasy Football Can Teach You About Your Data Center

Posted by on September 26, 2011 at 9:41 am

The return of football means different things to different people.  For some, they strap on their shoulder pads, place a helmet on their head, and don their jersey before heading to the gridiron.  For others, they load up a bowl with corn chips, turn on their laptop and television, and put on a jersey before [...]

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Memory Management in vSphere – Where we are at today

Posted by on September 19, 2011 at 11:30 am

This is a quick blog to discuss where vSphere is at with memory management today. vSphere has many mechanisms to reclaim memory before resorting to paging to disk. Let’s briefly look at these methods.   Memory Reclamation Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Think of this as deduplication for memory. Identical pages of memory are shared with [...]

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Improving Data Center TCO

Posted by on September 19, 2011 at 10:57 am

Businesses are in the business of making money. While the model that a company chooses to attempt such a feat varies widely, the formula they all subscribe to is universal: revenue less costs equals profit. It is no wonder that the goal of most senior executives is to increase revenue, decrease cost, or both. The [...]

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Quest for the Perfect Social Platform–Part 2

Posted by on September 12, 2011 at 10:18 am

Let’s call this Quad day 1 and what a ride its been so far. Admittedly, my Linux skills are limited and that most certainly did not help in this process. There’s been quite a bit of learning about command and control of files systems and mount points that I had previously been able to get [...]

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