One of the really attractive aspects of working at a start-up like DataSift is managing the challenges that come with the rapidity of organic growth. Our experiences with the networking aspects of Hadoop are an excellent example of this. When…
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Big Data – Bigger Networking
I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me
Ever since someone first tried to represent the idea of packet switched network that was resilient to failure they probably used a picture of a cloud. Cisco’s official iconography for such a network is a cloud. It has been taken…
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IPv6 and Virtualisation Revisited
I recently discovered Vagrant and after some experimentation and reading I set about replacing all my ESXi and HyperV hosts with Linux based hypervisors. After installation of the RPM package creating a VM was as simple as issuing; vagrant box…
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Utilising Read Only Domain Controllers to Leverage Hosted Active Directory
One of the common issues that appears when integrating a hybrid vision of Hosted Exchange with someones existing infrastructure (so not really Hosted Exchange at all!) is synchronising credentials between the Exchange Server and the local machines or for the…
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Introducing psFetch
psFetch is my latest project and is a Powershell cmdlet that communicates with various Repositories on the Internet to find what you are looking for and easily download and install them to your machine. The cmdlet itself is written in…
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Active Directory Fun
This post has no real merit its just that the Error message caused me to actually laugh out loud:
Last H.O.P.E and Tackling the Debian OpenSSL Issue
Well I’m back from my trip to New York and I’ve brought back a couple of things. With the most tracks HOPE has ever had I was truly spoilt for choice but I spent most of my time [when I…
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Windows Server 2008 With Exchange 2007 – In Production
Considering how bleeding edge the majority of my projects are I’m a little behind the curve on this one but I’ve finally managed to move all my Windows Servers across to Windows Server 2008. This includes the Domain Controllers, Web…
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Benefits of Virtualisation For Training
Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors. Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we…
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Leveraging Virtualisation To Fight Spam
A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was…
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