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Entries from October 2006

Commandsoft – Xsan competition?

October 29, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Commandsoft
Want a truly affortable SAN? FibreJet enterprise-class storage network gives multiple computers concurrent access to terabytes of storage using just about anyones storage over Fibre Channel. Apple’s Xsan costs $23,383 more than a 6-node FibreJet solution using identical equipment!

Higer-performance Storage Networking
FibreJet is sometimes 500% the performance of Xsan for the equivelent file-copy operation! FibreJet finds a file in 5 seconds compared to taking over 4 minutes with the same operation in Xsan!

Need to do more reading on this. Looks interesting.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard · Team · VAR

New Intel Xserves are available for Pre-order

October 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Go get them now! They will ship in November.

The Xserve packs phenomenal power and industry-leading capabilities into a high-density, 1U rackmount server that fits easily into any network environment. And this award-winning UNIX-based server just got a 5x (1) performance boost over the Xserve G5, thanks to quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon processing. Additional features include up to 2.25TB storage, two eight-lane PCI Express slots, dual onboard Gigabit Ethernet, and a combo drive. With all this, the Xserve provides the stability you need and the performance you want, starting at just $2999.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Fire Your Tech Guy · Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard · Team · VAR

Fire Your Tech Guy.22 – How to Mentally react to a computer crash

October 24, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Fire Your Tech Guy.22 – How to Mentally react to a computer crash
In case you forgot what the best practice is for this,  take a listen to learn how.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Fire Your Tech Guy

Fire Your Tech Guy.21 – Video Tools, STAMPot, PageOT, Videocue, Wirecast, Camtasia

October 24, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Fire Your Tech Guy.21 – Video Tools, STAMPot, PageOT, Videocue, Wirecast, Camtasia

Some great information here. Take a listen and let me know what you think.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Fire Your Tech Guy

Fire Your Tech Guy.20 – Poor Man’s Microsoft Exchange – Zimbra.com

October 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Today we talk about www.Zimbra.com , a cross-platform email collaboration server that is now able to compete with Microsoft Exchange. In the past, Mac and Linux users could not truly join the Exchange world.

Those days are over, and Zimbra is a compelling solution.

Give a listen.

Topic suggestions are suggested via the suggestion box at birdDogdigital@gmail.com . Suggest away, creative people.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Fire Your Tech Guy · Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard · Team · VAR

Fire Your Tech Guy.19b – Recap of Gmail as backup – Airport Extreme – Express for home

October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Today we talk about some of our older episodes, take some feedback to heart, and talk about ways to use the Airport Extreme and Airport Express to easily build the “Poor Man’s home audio system”

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/unwireyourlivingroom.html

www.AlamedaMac.com

We are currently taking topics for big episode #20.

Topic suggestions are suggested via the suggestion box at birdDogdigital@gmail.com . Suggest away, creative people.

Categories: AAPL & Apple · Fire Your Tech Guy · VAR

Client referral – Reese Minshew – GoEasywriter.com

October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

“My computer is like my brain. I don’t understand how it works, but I can’t get anything done without it. Andrew managed to make brain surgery an effortless and virtually pain-free experience. He’s reliable, friendly, skilled and has a great bedside manner. I wholeheartedly recommend birdDog Digital for your tech needs.”

–Reese
http://www.goeasywriter.com/

Categories: Clients & Testimonials · Team