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Network Cabling Controversy: Zip Ties v. Hook & Loop Ties 23 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
More than 210,000 users have watched a YouTube video of our data center operations team cabling a row of server racks in San Jose. More than 95 percent of the ratings left on the video are positive, a...
The 5 Mortal Sins of Launching a Social Game 19 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
Social network games have revolutionized the gaming industry and created an impressive footprint on the Web as a whole. 235 million people play games on Facebook every month, and some estimates say th...
Setting Up Your New Server 14 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
As a technical support specialist at SoftLayer, I work with new customers regularly, and after fielding a lot of the same kinds of questions about setting up a new server, I thought I’d put together a...
The “Unified Field Theory” of Storage 2 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
This guest blog was contributed by William Rocca of OS NEXUS. OS NEXUS makes the Quantastor Software Defined Storage platform designed to tackle the storage challenges facing cloud computing, Big Data...
A Brief History of Cloud Computing 30 Jul 2013 | 12:45 am
Believe it or not, “cloud computing” concepts date back to the 1950s when large-scale mainframes were made available to schools and corporations. The mainframe’s colossal hardware infrastructure was i...
Deconstructing SoftLayer’s Three-Tiered Network 24 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
When Sun Microsystems VP John Gage coined the phrase, “The network is the computer,” the idea was more wishful thinking than it was profound. At the time, personal computers were just starting to show...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Transcending Borders 20 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
At Cloud World Forum in London, I did an interview with Rachel Downie of CloudMovesTV, and she asked some fantastic questions (full interview embedded a the bottom of this post). One that particularly...
Riak Performance Analysis: Bare Metal v. Virtual 17 Jul 2013 | 01:10 am
In December, I posted a MongoDB performance analysis that showed the quantitative benefits of using bare metal servers for MongoDB workloads. It should come as no surprise that in the wake of SoftLaye...
The Importance of Providing Startups a Sandbox 10 Jul 2013 | 10:45 pm
With the global economy in its current state, it’s more important than ever to help inspired value-creators acquire the tools needed to realize their ideas, effect change in the world, and create impa...
When to Consider Riak for Your Big Data Architecture 9 Jul 2013 | 08:30 pm
In my Breaking Down ‘Big Data’ – Database Models, I briefly covered the most common database models, their strengths, and how they handle the CAP theorem — how a distributed storage system balances de...
