One of the things that we spend a lot of time on is trying to keep track of what servers have enough free space. We have a lot of different tools to check drive space, and we even use some of them from time to time. We have a pretty complicated system created by Rickey… Continue reading Monitoring drive space
Category: Operational Excellence
It’s all in the Clouds…
Recently I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. One of the big pushes that is on the minds of everyone these days, is the Cloud Computing concept. As a Systems Engineer, the thought is that I should be afraid of this push, because it moves the processing out of the datacenter and into… Continue reading It’s all in the Clouds…
Raise Your Data Center Temperature
After following a link to a story about Google’s abilities to “route around outages” that Patrick had on his Blog, I saw a link to another story about Google’s Data Center practices. Apparently you don’t have to keep the Data Center frigid these days… Most data centers operate in a temperature range between 68 and… Continue reading Raise Your Data Center Temperature
Multiple Categories in a SharePoint Blog
I recently came up with an idea to use an internal blog to document stuff happening in our group at work. (Document what you know…) The problem was that SharePoint Blogs by default limit you to one category per post and that just would be as helpful in my mind. So I did a search… Continue reading Multiple Categories in a SharePoint Blog
Document what you know…
or maybe even what you don’t know? I recently (last night) came up with an idea on how to do a better job of sharing information with the rest of my department. We use SharePoint for a lot of things. It occurred to me that a Blog would be a good way of sharing information… Continue reading Document what you know…