* Posts by BlueInfra

8 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2021

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

BlueInfra

Commercial Mall Leases

The author should really read a few commercial mall leases to understand the boundaries of what's commercially acceptable.

They will be shocked and disappointed about how intrusive and expensive renting a shop in a mall really is.

It may also explain why you don't find too many "great deals" in the mall and have to go find an outlet mall full of company stores to do a bit better.

FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock cellphones 60 days after activation

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Verizon already has mandatory unlock

Since Verizon already has mandatory 60 days unlocking it stands to reason that other carriers will make their pricing and policies line up to be more like those of Verizon.

After all, Verizon has already figured out how to not lose money on selling subsidized phones with a mandatory 60 day unlocking.

AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California

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It's time to upgrade

At some point the copper needs to be replaced with fiber.

AT&T should be allowed to replace copper with fiber wherever it wants and provide VoIP service at the same basic rate they do today. That does not seem so difficult.

At some point if AT&T won't upgrade to fiber then others should take over the legacy AT&T infrastructure in those counties and perform the upgrade themselves.

It makes pure financial sense that AT&T can make more money by forcing the most expensive customers to service over to wireless.

Muni-fiber for the win!

Brit watchdog gnawing on HPE's $14B buy of cable giant Juniper Networks

BlueInfra

No. The HPE router was made by 3com long ago, moved to China as H3C and then spun off. HPE has no routers today (unless it's a rebadged product made by outsiders).

The Juniper router might say "uh oh"

Wanna curb datacenter outages? Try combating burnout with shorter shifts

BlueInfra

Re: Support is like firefighting

Having local "firefighter" support is also tough if you have strong central controls that keep problems from happening often or the opportunity for anyone local to participate in meaningful work.

It's a similar problem to hiring police officers for school safety. You wonder why you can't have an on-site swat team hero after they have been sitting on their butt talking to kids about their feelings for 20 years.

IDC: AI is a solution for a PC industry with a sales problem

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hardware

Our hardware choices are likely:

- integrated AI capabilities included within an Intel or AMD CPU

- extra AI capabilities in a GPU

Perhaps the OEM will include some extra software to crash our computers or add security vulnerabilities.

SmartNICs haven't soared so VMware will allow retrofits in old servers

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Re: Majority of ESXi servers are disk/RAM bound

There is efficiency to be gained by delivering packets directly to the VM's instead of bouncing the packets through a host networking core. Presume that networking latency would drop a bit and you might get a core back to use for compute.

Since the products exist there is no need to guess. Data should be available.

For AWS, their networking core was more complicated, with lots of tunnels, so they got a lot out of the transition.

HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector

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Re: The sad calls I take from HPE that put a smile on my face

Long ago (pre-virtualization) there was value in rapid repair of on-prem servers. I had a couple of important HP servers that I bought a "6 hour call to repair" contract on. In theory HP was guaranteeing that within 6 hours that thing was going to be fixed.