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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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 I have been using an old outdated Cisco 3500XL that was starting to fade.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 [...]