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vCloud Hybrid Service Ask Me Anything – Reddit

By admin on May 10, 2014 in vCloud Air

Interested in VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service? Have questions you want to ask? Well if you answered yes, then you need to sign up to the vCloud Hybrid Service – Reddit Ask Me Anything. It sound really cool. This is what the registration page says: Have a burning question about hybrid cloud? Curious about the vCloud Hybrid Service, but don’t know how to get started? Now’s your chance to ask and receive answers straight from some of the best and brightest hybrid cloud experts at VMware! On Monday, May 19 from 1-2pm PT, VMware will be on hand to answer any and all of your hybrid cloud questions live during hybrid cloud AMA on Reddit. Here’s who will be attending: Mathew Lodge, Vice President, Cloud Services at VMware Angelos Kottas, Director, Product Marketing, Hybrid Cloud Services at VMware Jason Lochhead, Chief Architect, vCloud Hybrid Service at VMware Looking for advice? Have a technical question? […]

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vCloud Hybrid Service launches two new offerings

By admin on May 6, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Yesterday vCloud Hybrid Service launched two new offerings and released them into the public cloud. This is of personal interest to me as I was the Tech Marketing lead for these two new releases. For me, being part of the team that is launching these offerings, and the rapid speed of delivery and growth within VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service gives me great pleasure, and pride. Anyway, lets get on with the technical stuff. Standard Storage Tier First up is storage tiering. vCHS now offers two types of storage tier. SSD Accelerated and Standard. SSD-Accelerated is exactly that, an SSD-Accelerated tier, that uses SSD Caching to increase the performance. Standard storage is slightly different, it is just plain old spindle based storage without any SSD Acceleration, resulting in a lower performance. As The Register puts it “Plain old spinning rust”. For me, its an important part of cloud, offering multiple types of […]

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vExpert access to vCloud Air

By admin on May 5, 2014 in vCloud Air

Have you just been awarded vExpert 2014 status? Want to try vCloud Air for 30 days? If so, then you can now. Chris Colotti and Jeramiah Dooley have setup a process and plan to get vExpert’s free access on a rolling 30 days basis. Pretty cool or what? For more information on the process and to sign up for this free access, here is a list of required links. Please read the extensive program guide for full information. Program Information Post on Community Forums Program Guide Sign Up Form Participant Calendar I think this is a really great way to try some cloud resources for free. As a vExpert myself, I know I always appreciate new stuff I can experiment with, to see how it could potentially improve the infrastructure and designs I build. This is a great way to do this. As mentioned on Chris’s site, there is a few […]

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ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ – WordPress MySQL

By admin on May 3, 2014 in Word Press

Received this error today ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1 Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ on one of my WordPress installations after trying to restart MySQL. This is how I fixed it. This is the error I received when running # /etc/init.d/mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. # ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed It was showing one of my WordPress tables was corrupted. Don’t panic though, there is an easy way to resolve this. Run the following command myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options replacing the pathname with your path name. If successful you should see the following. # myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options – recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table ‘wp_options’ Data records: 253 – Fixing index 1 – Fixing index 2 Data records: 348 Restart MySQL again, you will see […]

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BASIC 50 Years Old

By admin on May 1, 2014 in Randomness

Celebrating 50 years of BASIC! Celebrating 50 years of BASIC! BASIC 50 years old? Wow! Lets say that again, BASIC 50 years old! I cant quite actually believe it. For anyone of my generation, who works in IT, they pretty much will have used BASIC at some point, either at school, or at work. I loved it, even at the age of 8 years old, I wrote my first BASIC program called Hello Daddy on my Dad’s Tandy 1000. I bet he doesn’t remember. For people of my sister-in-laws age BASIC was a simple powerful programming language. BASIC stands for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and you can read more over at wikipedia. It was a simple program: 10 PRINT “HELLO DADDY” 20 GOTO 10 I still remember doing it today. Shortly after that he banned me from his computer as I discovered the FORMAT C: command and promptly wiped out […]

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