Category: Data Center
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EMC Announces SRM Suite 3.5
Today EMC announced the upcoming release of version 3.5 of their Storage Resource Management Suite (SRM Suite). [ASIDE: Across the IT industry, SRM has stood for “Storage Resource Management” for years. I’ve always found it unfortunate that two very different products offered by the EMC Federation (this and VMware’s Site Recovery Manager) share the same…
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More Heartbleed Protection: Update VMware Horizon View Client on Your Mobile Devices
The industry is still cleaning up following the news about the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL. VMware has released updated versions of the Horizon View Client for both Android and iOS. The easiest way to ensure you’re safe from the Heartbleed vulnerability is to check to see if there’s an update to the View Client available…
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Update OpenSSL on Isilon InsightIQ – Avoid the Heartbleed Vulnerability
[Instructions found herein are based upon the work of multiple other folks in this thread in the Isilon Support Forum.] By now, you’re likely aware of the “Heartbleed” security vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptography library. If you have an Isilon cluster, you might be wondering if it’s affected. The good news is that all versions…
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Cisco Launches Champions Program for 2013
Yesterday, Cisco began sending email notifications to the people they’re inviting to participate in the Cisco Champions Program. This program’s purpose is “to create and nurture a network of people who are passionate about Cisco and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco.” I’m happy, excited, and humbled…
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Isilon and Data Centers and Forklifts, Oh My!
Most of my blog posts are long and text-heavy. This one is short on text and mostly photos… Over the course of my career, I’ve been in a lot of different data centers. Some have been in interesting places, strange places, and some under frighteningly high levels of security. I’ve installed, fixed, and administered compute,…