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Power and cooling are some of the most over looked or misunderstood components of deploying IT infrastructure. Power in particular poses a problem for the average IT department because it is often considered the domain of the building maintenance or an electrical subcontractor.

Electricians are necessary to install your power receptacles but most fail to understand the needs of your IT equipment. Even electricians with IT infrastructure experience will often only give you a receptacle on the wall. It is up to you, or your IT support team, to know what you need and how to balance the equipment load. More »

The smartphone has assimilated an increasing amount of functionality over the years, from cameras and video, to email, calendaring and the increasingly dizzying array of apps for sale across all mobile platforms.  However, more often than not these mobile implementations barely rise above glorified proof of concept demos.

Today I’m looking at two emerging spaces in the app eco-system: advanced mobile IT management tools & mobile virtualization. More »

Far to often I see folks spending thousands of dollars on new servers and network gear without consideration for improving the server room itself. This oversight can be catastrophic, and the ROI is predictable when proper implementation occurs. The most often overlooked areas, especially with smaller companies, include physical security, electrical power and climate control. More »

There are times when you need a decent microphone, whether it’s for Podcasting, conference calls, recording demos or presentations, capturing riffs, recording band practice, etc.

The built-in microphones on computers are great, mainly because they’re built in and you don’t have to do anything to connect them up, but the sound quality is never all that good. Typical Condenser and Dynamic microphones used for pro audio applications sound great, but they require some kind of connection and/or preamp device to connect to your computer. More »

For anyone interested I am attending black hat and defcon and snapped a few pictures from the iphone exploit talk.

So ever since iDay I have been looking for a good way to get content on the iphone ( yeah scrolling is fun but seriously ), I have started using Google’s Reader service and I think I have finally found something that I can live with, and find myself using it on my standard size browsers too. If you don’t know much about the service its basically a rss reader that treats the feeds like email messages, a surprisingly efficient concept.

I have added basically every site I normally visit and am now using their mobile version. Might not be news to you but thought I would post it if you have not played
with it yet .

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I am waiting at pioneer place mall in portland oregon. Stay tuned for updates.

I’m number 6

KXL New coverage

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Cool demo of Google Earth at WWDC07 spread across 18 screens using [TG Enhanced Chromium](http://tungstengraphics.com/TG%20Enhanced%20Chromium%20Mac%20OS%20X%20Press%20Release%20June%2011%202007.pdf) from [Tungten Graphics](http://tungstengraphics.com/).

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Since I have seen more and more storage products lately utilizing SATA port multipliers, I decided to do a little research on the topic.

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