There is that problem though - that I've seen in my organization (and others I've worked for) is that you get a Linux admin in and they prefer distribution X for whatever reason, and then they move on and the new admin likes distribution Y and slowly but surely proceeded to migrate everything to distribution Y. Management has dictated that everything will be on Suse, but sure enough plenty of projects for customers who didn't want to pay the license fees went with CentOS or something else (I work for a University) - so now management has a standard that everything will be on CentOS or Suse. Even that has been hard because our ERP (Oracle Middleware based) demands it all be run on Solaris.
Yes there are a lot of variants for Windows, but it is nice to know you can buy a premier contract from Microsoft - and even if your admin is an idiot - you can hire an engineer to be onsite to help you with your server apps. Its not cheap, but they know what they are doing.
Most enterprises have a license agreement with MS anyhow that allows them to install as many Windows servers as they need/like (you just pay a per year maintenance fee - which can include support). And most managers (for good reason I'm sure) don't like putting anything in place that doesn't have a support contract in place.
What I've found that works - and probably what you need to do in your shop is separate the Unix and Windows admins - and assign projects based on work-load or what works best as a platform.
Say you have some vertical market application that only runs on Windows Server.
Yes you as a Linux purist would balk at the idea, but most enterprises have plenty of these apps that some manager spent a ton of money on that they pay you to keep running.
That said - I've got a bunch of Windows servers in my enterprise - they don't have any uptime issues. The most recent outage was causes by the data center UPS exploding (which forced all the circuits onto the remaining two and they shut down - yeah its a nasty wiring/design issue).
My big question is of course - how do you know the CIA isn't already tapping the data in your network?
I mean where I work we have infrastructure security people (3 of them!) but only one I've met seems to actually know anything about vulnerability vectors and actually knows how to parse access logs.
We're leaving Sparc machines because of cost. We have to run Oracle because we're using Oracle db/middleware on our ERP, but we've found that Dell's run circles around anything Oracle has sold us in the past for far less money.
I have an Optiplex 9010 with an 3.5 GHz i7 3770 at work that actually draws as little as 30 watts (according to the UPS) - that's the entire machine (disks/memory etc).
I used to work for Adobe doing support escalations - "Australian" support reps were under strict rules not to support grey marketed apps and had to call US support numbers for any help. US support would help you in ways they could, but if you needed replacement disks or whatever - they wouldn't ship overseas. US support reps couldn't even register the apps because it won't let you enter Aussie zip codes/phone numbers.
I say "Australian" btw because its just a local number that transfers the call to a robot in India.
Its really silly considering it was a brand new format without the old issues of legacy more standard connectors. They could have done anything they wanted, but no now you have to use crazy hacks to output video simply because it wasn't in the original spec and their customers apparently want to output video.
I had to do a sanity check because I remember a) the back of the 4000 series had no vents and b) I really do remember standing on the end of the rack warming my hands.
Seriously? Even brand new sun hardware isn't as fast as an i7 in any benchmark I've seen (check spec.org).
The other thing is that Sun v1280 will drink electricity. I remember we had two of those in a data center I helped build in Portland - and even though the room was at 65 deg you could always warm up on the left hand side of those - because the worst heat imaginable poured out the vents on the side.
It is an odd definition though - because I'd consider a server that Dell makes more of a PC than a tablet - which they didn't even count.
Its easy for Apple to blow Dell away in PC sales when Dell doesn't really make tablets, but then Dell blows Apple away in server sales for the exact same reason.
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There is that problem though - that I've seen in my organization (and others I've worked for) is that you get a Linux admin in and they prefer distribution X for whatever reason, and then they move on and the new admin likes distribution Y and slowly but surely proceeded to migrate everything to distribution Y. Management has dictated that everything will be on Suse, but sure enough plenty of projects for customers who didn't want to pay the license fees went with CentOS or something else (I work for a University) - so now management has a standard that everything will be on CentOS or Suse. Even that has been hard because our ERP (Oracle Middleware based) demands it all be run on Solaris.
Yes there are a lot of variants for Windows, but it is nice to know you can buy a premier contract from Microsoft - and even if your admin is an idiot - you can hire an engineer to be onsite to help you with your server apps. Its not cheap, but they know what they are doing.
Most enterprises have a license agreement with MS anyhow that allows them to install as many Windows servers as they need/like (you just pay a per year maintenance fee - which can include support). And most managers (for good reason I'm sure) don't like putting anything in place that doesn't have a support contract in place.
What I've found that works - and probably what you need to do in your shop is separate the Unix and Windows admins - and assign projects based on work-load or what works best as a platform.
Say you have some vertical market application that only runs on Windows Server.
Yes you as a Linux purist would balk at the idea, but most enterprises have plenty of these apps that some manager spent a ton of money on that they pay you to keep running.
That said - I've got a bunch of Windows servers in my enterprise - they don't have any uptime issues. The most recent outage was causes by the data center UPS exploding (which forced all the circuits onto the remaining two and they shut down - yeah its a nasty wiring/design issue).
Wha?
My big question is of course - how do you know the CIA isn't already tapping the data in your network?
I mean where I work we have infrastructure security people (3 of them!) but only one I've met seems to actually know anything about vulnerability vectors and actually knows how to parse access logs.
Look up rendition - the CIA might as well be assassinating critics.
Well and most of this intelligence gathering is/has been privatized.
I suspect the president knows about it, but probably never personally signed off on it.
Hardly... You can browse any site you like on our network (porn, pirate sites etc) you'll just be missing a ton of inline ads.
Get infected? We have sensors setup to jail your mac address/port.
When it reboots on its own every 30 minutes.
1990 called - they want your manually set proxy server back.
We proxy everything, but the users are none the wiser and its a university where BYOD isn't even something we can control.
30 years though? I could go into a 7-11 - shoot the clerk and rob the store and get less time.
Use SCCM - I can have an entire collection of machines re-imaged with all their software/profile data and patches in under an hour.
I think the difference is peer review. With a "religious science" journal all you get are confirmation bias.
We're leaving Sparc machines because of cost. We have to run Oracle because we're using Oracle db/middleware on our ERP, but we've found that Dell's run circles around anything Oracle has sold us in the past for far less money.
I have an Optiplex 9010 with an 3.5 GHz i7 3770 at work that actually draws as little as 30 watts (according to the UPS) - that's the entire machine (disks/memory etc).
I used to work for Adobe doing support escalations - "Australian" support reps were under strict rules not to support grey marketed apps and had to call US support numbers for any help. US support would help you in ways they could, but if you needed replacement disks or whatever - they wouldn't ship overseas. US support reps couldn't even register the apps because it won't let you enter Aussie zip codes/phone numbers.
I say "Australian" btw because its just a local number that transfers the call to a robot in India.
Its really silly considering it was a brand new format without the old issues of legacy more standard connectors. They could have done anything they wanted, but no now you have to use crazy hacks to output video simply because it wasn't in the original spec and their customers apparently want to output video.
Using JAMF Casper - running on Linux on HP Server hardware.
No need for Apple servers anymore :).
ECOM station won't actually boot on any PC you have either :).
I had to do a sanity check because I remember a) the back of the 4000 series had no vents and b) I really do remember standing on the end of the rack warming my hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise - lots of vents on the side of the first picture, and the back of the Enterprise 4000 - no vents.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/ent55.srvr/805-2632-10/805-2632-10.pdf - b.9 shows the cooling module - definitely takes air in on the side.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300-1260-03-Sun-300W-Power-Cooling-Module-P-N-PEX69031-/190681693444?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c6583bd04 - auction for a cooling module definitely shows air coming in on the side.
I must have been thinking about the 4500 maybe.
Seriously? Even brand new sun hardware isn't as fast as an i7 in any benchmark I've seen (check spec.org).
The other thing is that Sun v1280 will drink electricity. I remember we had two of those in a data center I helped build in Portland - and even though the room was at 65 deg you could always warm up on the left hand side of those - because the worst heat imaginable poured out the vents on the side.
I've read that hemp is a useful thing to grow to make various products like this.
Look up the Nokia N97 which was released long before Microsoft stepped in. Nokia was on the rocks.
I had a N97 (and several Nokia smart phones before that - so yes I was a believer) and it was total shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU - quite possibly the best video to describe Nokia before their ship ran aground.
Nokia killed Nokia.
It is an odd definition though - because I'd consider a server that Dell makes more of a PC than a tablet - which they didn't even count.
Its easy for Apple to blow Dell away in PC sales when Dell doesn't really make tablets, but then Dell blows Apple away in server sales for the exact same reason.
Maybe the parent article should include all the servers Dell and HP shipped too - which they didn't. Those are PC's too by a lose definition right?