Building a Green Server Room – Push Air Where You Need It

by steve on April 24, 2010 · View Comments

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Having optimized my air flow situation in the server room, the next step was to get that cold air into the servers.  I have never been a fan or believer of using cabinet blanks to block off air-flow because I always thought that having air move through and around servers served a good purpose.  Most of the areas I knew had ample amounts of cold air and blocking a few cabinet holes was costly and unnecessary.  I talked this over with Bob, and for the most part he agreed with me. However, this is where they pay off. [read more…]

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Lenovo S10-3t Netbook

by steve on April 10, 2010 · View Comments

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We have decided to look at a few netbook computers for our employees that do a lot of travelling.  While everyone currently has a notebook, the frequent flying executives and some others would prefer something smaller.  Knowing that most of them use Windows, but have iPhones, I thought our first test would be with a tablet PC.  In looking at some products, I selected the Lenovo S10-3t as my first device to evaluate. [read more…]

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HP Procurve MSM410 – Our Wireless Winner

March 22, 2010

I have been writing about our difficulty in trying to find a reliable, manageable and secure wireless networking access point for our company. After failures with Cisco and Bluesocket, I was beginning to think that there were really no enterprise-class devices around anymore.  We checked out Netgear, DLink, Motorola and 3Com, but nothing stood out.  Finally, [...]

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Building a Green Server Room – Optimizing Air Flow

March 8, 2010

I thought I had done the best I could with optimizing our small server room.  We have two rows of server cabinets which hold all of our servers, file systems and management devices.  I arranged the cabinets so that both rows had the servers facing toward the aisle between them.  My reasoning was that it would [...]

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BlueSocket – Dead on Arrival

March 1, 2010

This is part two of my saga into finding decent wireless network appliances for our enterprise.  In part one, I talked about our evolution with Cisco/Aironet products up to the fatal results with their 1130 model.
In calling around to some vendors, resellers and enterprise administrators, I got the most unusual recommendation.  They were all talking about [...]

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Switching to Netgear

February 15, 2010

I have been on the lookout for a replacement switch for my home network of about ten computers and game systems.  I have been using an old outdated Cisco 3500XL that was starting to fade.  I had to cut the power to the fans because of the noise and I wanted to act before it [...]

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