January 2008 - Posts

• Storage Solution Metrics

  There is more to architecting a storage solution than just determining the amount of space needed. Some metrics that are valuable to understand are: Average number of IO operations per second Maximum number of IO operations per second Ratio of read to Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:23 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

  Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 came out last month. Now that we've been running it a while, I just want to quickly say "wow". That was a long list of improvements but one that sticks out here at ORCS Web is the memory Read More... Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:11 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• VMWare Virtual Infrastructure

  VMWare has been producing virtualized environments for a long time – longer than most people realize. At ORCS Web we ran VMWare ESX Server (the version that runs “on the hardware” rather than GSX Server which ran on top of a host OS) Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 9:28 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• Talk is cheap

  Anything can be said in a marketing message – especially in today’s world where many companies are Internet-based rather than “brick and mortal” retail. It’s very easy to communicate messages that are not always accurate, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:36 PM by Brad | 0 Comments

• Windows Hyper-V

  With the release of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft will jumps more seriously into the virtualization market. For a long time they have provided Microsoft Virtual Server (and product we have supported for year and have vast experience with) to support Read More... Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:23 AM by Brad | 0 Comments