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What is a Systems Engineer?
April 16, 2012
In 1997 — after months of living and breathing Microsoft terminology and doctrine — I earned my “MCSE”. I smiled and told everyone I knew. I was proud to have achieved it but deep down inside I feared I had no idea what it really meant. What am I going to be doing on a day to day basis? What will be my tasks? I mean, when I graduated I knew cables, hubs, switches and routers. I knew servers, workstations, printers and portables. I understood users, clients, tickets and outages but really had no clue what a Systems Engineer actually was. Read more…
Automated Anomaly Detection and Optimization in Cloud Computing
February 8, 2012
There is an evolution happening in how organizations of all shapes and sizes consume business services. More and more, business services are being consumed from either public or private “clouds”. But as Kirill Sheynkman points out in “21 Experts Define Cloud Computing”:
“The ‘cloud’ model initially has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, complete application infrastructure needs to be easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled and managed in these virtualized hardware environments.” Read more…
Availability and Performance Monitoring: A Cloud Hosting Primer
January 31, 2012
It is always surprising to me the lack of attention that is paid to monitoring when customers purchase cloud hosting services. Mostly, I think it is because the business owners and many system administrators don’t really understand the complexities of properly “instrumenting” even a moderately complex application (web or otherwise) and take it for granted. Read more…
Milliseconds are Money: How Much Performance Matters in the Cloud
January 31, 2012
In the cloud … faster is better. But how much faster equals how much better? If your site loads even one second faster, will your audience grow? Will you have more sales? If so, by how much? Would you believe it takes only half a second to lose 1/5th of your visitors? Read more…
Accelerating Web Sites and Applications: a Cloud Caching Primer
January 31, 2012
Caching is a key concept in computing. Caching algorithms and hardware are used in virtually every aspect of computing to increase efficiency and performance. When it comes to web sites and applications there are numerous caching mechanisms potentially in play that can have a dramatic impact on the end users experience. Read more…
InfiniBand: The New Standard of Cloud Computing
January 31, 2012
I am frequently asked by techies why Carbon60 uses InfiniBand technology to power its cloud computing fabric. For many, this is an unusual choice. Despite the fact that half of the world’s most powerful super-computers use InfiniBand, the technology has not made its way into the typical datacenter. Read more…
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June 15, 2011
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Carbon60 – New Brand, New Website
June 1, 2011
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new brand and website: Carbon60 Networks.
For over ten years, Carbon60 has been providing managed hosting and IT services to a marquee group of customers that demand the highest levels of reliability, security and technical support for their business-critical web properties and applications. This year it was decided to build on our success by re-branding and marketing our WordPress-as-a-Service and Enterprise Cloud solutions. Read more…