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.
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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/
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.
Currently locally hosted sites work – but if this goes on like last time – even they will fail because DNS will fail because there are no root servers for DNS in China, most registrars are also not in China and well… you get the idea. No point being able to connect if you do not know where to connect!
CANDIS got a mention in a Drupal.org write up for our work with TheBeijinger.com
Published by March 25th, 2009 in Business Development, China, FOSS/GNU/Linux and The Cloud. 2 CommentsWhile no way near as cool or professional as my stint in CNN a couple of years back. It is still cool though;
http://drupal.org/node/357715
Busy Bee, China Storage Fabric, Thin Clients, iSCSI SAN’s and more
Published by October 21st, 2008 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 0 CommentsBeen a bit busy of late. Many new clients and some large contracts (our largest to date). Our utility infrastructure has grown a lot too. Some of the projects and services that we are working on now and hope to launch very soon are:
Software as a Service, ASPing, ESPing, ISPing and many more “SP’s”
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsSoftware as a service. Sounds nice doesn’t it? How about utility computing or computing as a service?
Well it is not until you actually start to UNDERSTAND it – that you get to appreciate it. All too often the pundits of tech in society (as nice as they are), like twit.tv, cnet.com and [...]
China an inefficient truth
Published by January 9th, 2008 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 1 CommentI read this entry over on David Wolf’s blog before my recent trip back down under about power usage and IT infrastructure.
Silicon Hutong
And the topic did strike a “Hey this is real man!!!” kind of chord with me. A cathartic resonance that shall never come from me with respect to the greater greenhouse effect [...]



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