I’m just reading about this now, but apparently Yesterday, 4/22/2011, morning a network event took severely hindered Amazon’s EC2 cloud.  According to an article I found on Internetnews.com Amazon is blaming the outage on storage issues caused by a network event. A report form amazon said: A networking event early this morning triggered a large…

VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is one of those new IT buzzwords.  VMWare does it, Citrix Xen Does it, a few others do it.  RedHat does it (or, is in the process of doing it) as well. A friend of mine has been looking into VDI for a client, and it got me curious.  I…

This is a simple one, but I’ve not used it much before today. You can use lsof on a linux box to find out what’s connected to what over the network. In this case, we’d implemented a new ldap server, and it’s address had changed, I was attempting to determine what was still connecting to…