Australia – you need to embrace INNOVATION and self driven productivity and not being glorified LEGO builders. Otherwise I can’t see how Australia will have any IT industry left over?
Archive for the 'The Cloud' Category
Apr7th2011
What is wrong with IT practitioners in Australia?
Published by April 7th, 2011 in Business Development, FOSS/GNU/Linux and The Cloud. 0 CommentsDec14th2010
EQUINIX – Would you like fries with that?
Published by December 14th, 2010 in Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsHad a good tour of the EQUNIX facility in Sydney today. Been to a few around the world and yet again the structure, layout and operation procedures are identical to all. The McDonalds of IDC’s?
Oct11th2010
China .CN TLD Registration Rules Change Again #complete_shock
Published by October 11th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsIn any case, it is now not the case that a business can register a domain name. Get this. Businesses are NOT ALLOWED to own .CN domain names. ONLY INDIVIDUALS. I’ll let you all ponder why that may be the case. It is about as hard as figuring out why BBQ’s attract flies.
Aug25th2010
This issue has bugged me for well over 5 years. VMWARE has some weird issue – mainly with Linux hosts where the keyoard goes crazy and a single key press cause a million entries to appear.
Aug12th2010
China ICP FAQ
Published by August 12th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsThere seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.
Aug12th2010
China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process
Published by August 12th, 2010 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsWith new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:
Jul26th2010
Double ICP Needed
Published by July 26th, 2010 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 3 CommentsPreviously you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commercial” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.
May20th2010
Jason Calicanis sent out an email recently that reinforced what I had already thought. Get out of facebook. Delete and see that useless molasses of nothingness get what it deserves.
Nov3rd2009
When you have a server (and lets hope it is a real one and not a Zhong Guan Cun job) you should enable thermal protection. Because A/C units do fail as do fans and other servers. Thermal protection will cause your systems to shut down gracefully and prevent damage to them and surround devices – like UPS batteries.
Oct19th2009
Got Servers? FaceBook has 30K!
Published by October 19th, 2009 in FOSS/GNU/Linux, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsGood to see that good old memcached is in use too! 
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/
Oct19th2009
Korea and Hong Kong Cluster Deployments
Published by October 19th, 2009 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 0 CommentsCANDIS staff have just returned from building out some redundant clusters in Korea and Hong Kong for a foreign Banking client.
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