Posts by K 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
Glad I'm not the only one that found this!
I found a bug in on a Layer 2-7 Switch for the IBM blade chassis, fortunately I had a contact into the development team who pushed out a fix within 48 hrs, amazing.. but it then took IBM 7 months to make this fix publicly available.
And I hope your right!
The SME market for SAN's needs a big shakeup, if EMC can bring some of their "Enterprise" features to the SME market for a reasonable cost then they will have a winner.. I've been fortunate to recently purchase a VNX 5300 with all the trimming and I can only say its blown me away, but like a crackhead I now need more (for my other racks). The only way I'll swing that is by EMC becoming more price competitive - Usually this is something I rely upon Dell to do, but their Storage sales provide very high profit margins and its not something they are willing to dent.
That jaguar you brought is actually a Skoda painted gold - You've just been done out of thousands.... But you don't care, cause its shiny!
If you read a lot of comments properly, you'll see this has nothing to do with D-Link, its more about picking the right tool for the job, yet some "Consultant" morons have no clue about this and would rather pay £5,000 for a switch just because it had "Cisco" written on it, when a £500 one would be just as effective.
You can't "fix" stupid - but morons are a different matter, your neutering appointment is tomorrow...
Cisco, its 1998 on the phone and they want you to return their switch management interface!
Trevor Pott, kudos for a brilliant article and shining light on this type of kit. I've got to say, I'm a massive fan on the HP v1910 switches which are similar in functionality, being full GbE with Layer 3 "light" etc. These switches retail for about £200-£300 each, and can deal with anything I've ever chucked at them,
Admittedly my traffic and network requirements are simple compared to others, but they are amazingly good value and have dealt with everything I've ever thrown at them. I had 2 running on my EqualLogic SAN for a while, they easily stood their own against switches that cost 5x more (Dell Powerconnect 6248's).
Thats not to say these switches are suitable for every environment. But when Cisco still sell simple layer 2 8 port 100Mb switches for £300+ pounds. It puts into perspective how poor value they actually are.
Ditto for the UK...
3G offers me enough to do my mobile browsing, but I don't stream to my phone because I only get 1Gb bandwidth on my tarrif, so imagine that problem on 4G. I believe 4G has the potential to be disruptive to the likes of fixed broadband, but only once the bandwidth limits become realistic, EE are offering 2 for $40+ per month, simple put, I would burn through that in an evening.
Though it will be interesting to see the tarriffs 3 offers :)
"Do you have legal advice to back this up? "
Cameron, yes, its perfectly legal to sell as long as the a) the item is exactly as described b) after-sales policy is clearly explained, understood and agreed to buy the purchaser.
But you are completely missing the point - this has nothing to do with B2B or B2C, its about equipment being brought, not utilised and then left to rot in storage for X years. Where if an item is functioning, it should be sold on, this would reduce waste and also recoup some of the original cost. Hence a massive benefit to tax payers.
As was pointed out earlier, councils "retain" items for X length of time, so they often get dumped in storage for 2 years. After which they are only suitable for scrap. Sell them why they still retain value and use. I don't care if its B2B or B2C sales, I just would like to see this dealt with with the Tax payers interests in mind, rather than the public servants and services (which yes, do occasionally differ, especially where money is concerned!)..
You sell the equipment AS-IS, with minimal guarantees etc... WTF do you think makes eBay tick! This has nothing to do with legality, the problem is 90% caused by the bureaucratic nightmare in public services. Additionally I imagine it also caused by some people wanting to hide wastage (what better way than to bury it for 2 years and then just dump it).
Well he managed to sell it! So why can't the council?
This is just typical of public services in general, I've have several friends who supply the public sector with Tech equipment and they amaze me with the stories of wastage (though they obvious love it!)... but such behavior would just not be tolerated in a private company!
Yesterday you may have seen some idiot pre-porting to speak for the UK, please ignore him, he will shortly be returning to the hole he crawled out of!
He is like a very bad rash, comes on unexpectedly, but does eventually disappear and we'll wonder what all the scratching was for!
No.. we are just less gullible that our US cousins!
As an IT Manager in the Financial services sector, I'd add the issue is much more diverse than security. There are other issues such as support, accountability and cost.
I'm currently managing an Infrastructure refresh project, our original design involved substantial use of cloud, but after running a 2 month evaluation (with Grid, IBM and EC2), the results were
1) It was more cost effective to buy our own tin
2) Getting support when a problem occurred was near impossible.
3) Account managers were only interested in getting the paper signed.. after which we couldn't see them for dust
Thats not to say Cloud is useless, its great for start-ups who don't have the cash to invest in infrastructure, who's scalability needs are unknown etc.
But our conclusion was, if you want something cost effective and know exactly what you need, want it to be reliable and well supported - do it yourself!
@Chris Long
Personally I agree, also if I need a Start Menu, I'll just download Start8..
But we are tech savvy - Your average 20-60 year old employee is far from that, give them Windows 8 and they will click round and eventually get frustrated as everything has changed and they can't find anything. (Also the argument that younger employees can work it out is crap, I work for a company were 90% employees are between 20-25, and most of them can barely switch a computer on (Not saying they are morons, just 99% of their lives revolve around a browser and little else!).
Now imagine if you had 200 similar employees. Are you really going to roll out Windows 8? It would anger employees, put a training burdon on IT staff and more importantly reduce the productivity of staff.
I'd like to see some success in business with this.
At present iPad is dominant, but that usually comes down to a sales persons or managers individually choosing them. Most don't have the "IT Department" stamp of approval as they don't have the integration, security or access control.
Still can't help but feel one of the other posters is correct, M$ has lost a lot of momentum on this. It didn't help that they decided to screw other a lot of users and push it as Desktop OS whilst removing the "Desktop" features such as Start Menu etc.
Its nothing personal, I know that forecasting is an art and very difficult. but it just seems they can't get much right. Yet we've got a lot of tax money being ploughed into this research and a lot of political and economical decisions being made off the back of it. But they can't seem to get it right.
I can't help but feel, we should continue to pay these scientists, but rather than giving them super-computers they get a choice of an abacus or a walking billboard to wear (with the "End is nigh" written on it!). The money saved from non having to fund the super-computers etc can then be used on Flood defences.
OK my spelling and grammar are bad!
But seriously, what would happen if this thing fell some place dangerous?
Are these people insured?
What precautions are taken to avoid accidents?
Accelerating from the edge of space and landing on a person/car/home is going to cause a lot of damage :P
It just won't happen!
I have a phone and tablet that runs on exactly the same chipset. Why would I need another device just to play games?
They would have been better of developing a system that enabled the tablet/phone to act a console with wireless controller and wireless HDMI to the TV.
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