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Live blog: Moving an iSeries cross-city: Moving Production to the Hosted Data Center Floor
This post continues our live blog detailing dual iSeries Power 6 moves where we are moving a production server to a vendor hosted data center and moving our backup Capacity Backup Unit iSeries (CBU) back to the corporate data center. At this … Continue reading
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Live blog: Moving an iSeries cross-city: Shipping doctors-to-be and loading ramps
Continuing the live blog of moving a Power 6 iSeries from a corporate data center to a vendor run outsourced data center on a cold Chicago Sunday morning. The mover arrives at our facility about 4:00 AM with his daughter … Continue reading
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Live Blog: Moving a System i cross-city: Dos and Dont’s Before Loading the Truck
We’re in the middle of moving a System i box cross-city this morning. While things are going smoothly, here are some additional dos and don’t we ran into when preparing the machine to move. If you’re transporting a machine to another … Continue reading
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Live blog: First Power i Move – Moving a System i CBU off the Vendor’s Staging Floor
At outlined in prior posts, we’re in the middle of moving two Power 6 machines between an outsourced data center and company headquarters. The backup CBU machine currently resides at the hosted outsourced data center, while the production machine resides … Continue reading
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Live Blog: Moving Power i machine to different locations: What to do about tapes?
One more thing to add to a machine move checklist. If backing up to media, contact your media management provider and change pickup arrangements to reflect your new machine locations. For the two machines we’re flip-flopping this week to different … Continue reading
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Live Blog: Moving Two IBM Power Machines, Preparation
This week, I’m working with a client to move a production IBM Power 6 machine and its companion machine between two locations: an in-house data center and an outsourced managed data center, hosted by a vendor. We’re still in process … Continue reading
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Doing the math on a Power7 upgrade
Wondering what the monetary case IBM is selling for getting you to upgrade old PowerPC, Power4, Power5, and Power6 machines to Big Blue’s new Power 7 machines? Tim Prickett Morgan has an interesting article on IBM Power 7 upgrade math. … Continue reading
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Missing: One Gobbledygook Grader
I recently finished David Meerman Scott’s book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. In it, he has some sections on Gobbledygook which, of course, is produced by …writers [who] use the same words and phrases again and again–so much … Continue reading
Rocket software buys IBM’s iCluster business
Rockett Software continues its’ acquisition tear as it bought IBM’s iCluster business on December 13th. Tim Prickett Morgan has the story at IT Jungle.
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Nook comics and white papers
I’ve been a comics reader for a long time. I love the medium but I have reservations as to how it plays out on e-readers. I started looking at Barnes and Nobles’ Nook Comics as I’m playing with my Nook … Continue reading
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