EMC World 2011 Day 0
So today began EMC World 2011. It started in true EMC style with a great party, sponsored by UniSys. The party was held at the Hotel pool which seems a little strange but EMC made it work. It was a little windy last night, apparently not even EMC can control the weather. I met some […]
Next week is EMC World, and I’m getting there a little differently than usual.
So this year EMC World is back in Las Vegas, and I’m damn happy that I’m going again. Instead of taking the quick flight from Ontario to Las Vegas like I normally word, I’ll be getting there a little differently, I’ll be riding my motorcycle. As I can only go about 130 miles on a […]
MySpace’s failures had next to if not nothing to do with the Microsoft stack or being in LA
If you were on twitter in the last couple of days you may have seen some links to a blog post titled “MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft” in which the author tries show that because MySpace used the Microsoft stack (ASP.NET, IIS, Windows, and SQL Server) […]
DAS, NAS and SAN oh my.
In the server world we have three different kinds of storage available. Today, only two of these can be used with your SQL Server (as long as you want to keep the SQL Server in a supportable configuration). Your three options are Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN). […]
Sign up for the LA to Phoenix Code Camp bus
Something which was talked about at the last SoCal Code Camp was running a bus from SoCal to Phoenix to help our two communities get to know each other better, and to give speakers and attendees easier access to more events. So along those lines a bus has been setup taking people from SoCal to […]
Free online classes “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professions”
Microsoft is putting on a great free three day online class for VMware professionals that need to learn more about Hyper-V. Day 1 will focus on “Platform” (Hyper-V, virtualization architecture, high availability & clustering) Day 2 will focus on “Management” (System Center Suite, SCVMM 2012 Beta, Opalis, Private Cloud solutions) Day 3 will focus on […]
