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How Do You Keep Up with Enterprise-level Tech?

Posted by Cliff on from the measuring-up-the-hard-iron dept.

E1ven asks: "I'm curious how the Slashdot gang chooses to keep up with the performance of high-level equipment for servers, routers, loadbalancing, and the like? For PC-type specs it's easy, every guy and his dog has a review website, and magazines stuff themselves in every window. However, the higher-end equipment is far more difficult to find trustworthy analysis of. I'm curious how other people have solved this problem, and what resources they use to keep on top of the game?"

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  1. Simple by bconway · · Score: 5, Funny

    I buy what the vendors tell me to buy. After all, they know what's best, right?

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  2. How do I... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Keep up with Enterprise-level Tech? Mostly by watching Star Trek of course! Duh! :)

  3. BOFH Junket by infonography · · Score: 2, Funny

    Consult the BOFH series of articles on how one keeps up. It's on theregister.co.uk Sure it's dated in some places but a good read. Other then that vendors are willing do bend over completely to get a sale. I recently got a Demo of Weblogic from BEA and on for Webtrends. Just for asking. If your a serious (or even not) buyer, they will give your almost everything you need.

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  4. Enterprise-level tech? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So, like, transporters?

  5. This is what I do... by baywulf · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is what I do to get my enterprise running smoothly:
    * Level 5 diagnostics every hour
    * Level 3 diagnostics on first sign of battle ready
    * Level 1 diagnostics once a year
    * Inspection of warp coils for tetrion or verteron particles. These can cause poor engine performance.

  6. enterprise == commodity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your enterprise is run on clusters, then what you keep on is mostly clustering software rather than high-end hardware, the exception being the switch fabric. So keeping up with enterprise-level tech for me means understanding things like Oracle's Cache Fusion / 10g and then knowing enough about tieing it together, which is really a network/SAN thing. For the server hardware itself, off-the-shelf stuff from IBM/Dell/HP all work fine.

  7. The Starfleet way. by ex_ottoyuhr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dealing with Enterprise tech? Easy. When all else fails...

    REVERSE THE POLARITY!

    Oh, wrong Enterprise...