A funny thing happened to me on Tuesday. Well, really it happened to my wife. But I hear being married is all about sharing. We had just finished dinner when she casually mentioned we were getting a tax refund. “Oh?” I responded… “Yeah, I got an email” “OH???????”… I immediately had a sinking feeling.. had [...]
I’ve got a question. And I thought, who better to ask, than everybody? Here goes… We’ve got pretty serious storage needs. Like, in the next year, we’re estimating needing about 250TB (big T, big B) of additional centralized, networked, storage. Besides needing a lot, we also need very high performance, redundancy, and thrift. We want [...]
As you’ve been reading on our blog over the past few weeks we’ve been dealing with a few ongoing problems. As Josh has told you we’ve sorted through most of the major issues and things have started to settle down lately! We’ll be sure to post more information when we have more to report right [...]
Well, things could be worse. We’ve pretty much got our whole network under control now.. the ongoing problem mentioned last post was finally figured out by Cisco support. It turns out it was a bug undocumented feature in IOS dealing with how they learn MAC addresses. There was also another network problem we got resolved [...]
What a three weeks… As I’m sure most of you already know, we’ve had nothing but troubles, large troubles, for pretty much the last three weeks. A lot of these troubles were our fault, a couple of them were at least ostensibly beyond our control, and they all compounded each other. Here I’ll try and [...]