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aebarrett

  1. Seriously, who builds their own data center anymore? bit.ly/Jzrotg 8:03 AM May 22nd via TweetDeck
  2. @sarahnovotny curious how meteor plans to deal with latency and overhead of cloud and virtualization that you mentioned in chefconf talk. 8:40 AM May 18th via web
  3. Schrodinger ran 50,000 cores on EC2 for cancer drug target using #cyclecloud, said @jasonastowe at #chefconf 11:30 AM May 17th via Twitter for iPhone
  4. Ron Vidal to #chefconf attendees: you are the builders and protectors of the infrastructure. It's on your shoulders. 11:49 AM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone
  5. @WindowsTT unfortunately the answer to what makes chef chefy is waaaay longer than 140 characters 11:17 AM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to WindowsTT
  6. @colinsteele yes. I will get his autograph for you. 11:15 AM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to colinsteele
  7. HP Cloud services uses Chef to rapidly build out multiple data centers and availability zones #chefconf 10:43 AM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone
  8. About to learn what makes Chef "chefy" at #chefconf 8:52 AM May 16th via Twitter for iPhone
  9. At #chefconf today, to learn everything there is to know about automating IT operations 7:19 AM May 16th via TweetDeck
  10. #ITops folks that want to start down the #devops and coding road, read this: bit.ly/J7RmY5 by @jaredwray 7:40 AM May 9th via TweetDeck
  11. @2thebeach schedule's pretty full but i'll try to stop by the booth, thanks 8:56 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to 2thebeach
  12. Cloud means big change for #ITops, featuring @ianrae @jamesurquhart @jaredwray bit.ly/IqJcKW 9:11 AM May 1st via TweetDeck
  13. Data center DR made simpl(er) bit.ly/I3sQEc but work remains 1:00 PM Apr 24th via TweetDeck
  14. With PureFlex, “IBM is re-bundling what they unbundled decades ago,” said @storageio bit.ly/IEExFU 8:22 AM Apr 12th via TweetDeck
  15. This story begs the question, why does #Oracle even bother with x86 systems? bit.ly/IAjzrS by @pariseauTT 12:54 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck
  16. @rbergin @AndiMann He didn't specify an end goal, but is looking at 80/20 VMware/Other one year from now 12:59 PM Apr 10th via TweetDeck in reply to rbergin
  17. @rbergin @AndiMann Hyper-V/XenServer plus VMware. BMC is "following their customers" and to test their Cloud Lifecycle Management suite 12:51 PM Apr 10th via TweetDeck in reply to rbergin
  • Name Alex Barrett
  • Location Boston, Mass.
  • Web http://searchdata...
  • Bio Reporter covering IT infrastructure and operations, cloud, virtualization and the next generation data center.
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