Author: Rob Steele

  • Google’s Data Center

    Google’s Data Center

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    I’ve been in several of the largest and most secure data centers in the United States and it just occurred to me that as often as I use Google, I have never seen any of their data centers. I thought it would be fun to do some quick research and post about what I find…

  • Roundtower Wins Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year Award

    Roundtower Wins Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year Award

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    Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award recognizes the significant contributions of entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. I made a cameo in the video: http://www.roundtower.com/awarded-ernst-and-young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2013/ Official link to EY.com Press Release: http://www.ey.com/US/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Ernst-and-Young-announces-Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year-2013-Award-winners-in-South-Central-Ohio-and-Kentucky  

  • How Major League Baseball scales media and performance

    How Major League Baseball scales media and performance

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  • How to Make Your IT Department Great

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    Google’s CIO Talks about what differentiates a good IT department from a great one.

  • New Blog

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    I’m moving from my old domain (www.buraguy.com) into this shiny new domain. Pardon the dust 😉

  • EMC World 2013 Blueprints and Recap

    EMC World 2013 Blueprints and Recap

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    I’ll be typing up all of my notes from EMC World later today but for now here is a nice visual look back on the EMC Blueprints incase you missed anything. Softwared-Defined Storage In the software-defined data center of tomorrow, horizontal infrastructure management – not vertical – is the way of the future. Open, horizontal…

  • EMC and PSY Gangnam Style ?

    EMC and PSY Gangnam Style ?

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    LOL

  • NDMP SnapSure file system creation fails

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    I was setting up an NDMP accelerator node today to back up a new VNX and came across this error message when trying to backup a test volume for the first time: Errors and Exceptions 2013-02-13 11:25:19 avndmp Error : [snapup-/NDMP_Test] NDMP: SnapSure file system creation fails (Log #2) 2013-02-13 11:25:19 avndmp Error : [ndmp2avtar-/NDMP_Test/]…

  • Reference Architecture Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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    Great Citrix XenDesktop, Cisco UCS, and EMC VNX solution overview for deploying 5000 virtual desktops. Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Feature Pack Built on Cisco Unified ComputingSystem and EMX VNX LINK: Reference Architecture-Based Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Cisco Unified Computing System, Nexus 5500, Nexus 1000V, EMC VNX7500, and VMware ESXi 5

  • The NEW Internet Explorer

    The NEW Internet Explorer

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    As someone who grew up in the 90’s this is a great commercial for microsoft to introduce the new Internet Explorer. I’m really liking the new look and feel of IE and even though I am a multi browser user I still typically spend most of my time on IE. I think with Microsoft’s lastest…