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Converged infrastructure simply explained

Things move fast in technology. Yesterday’s buzz word was cloud. It seems we have a new buzz word floating about in enterprise technology. That buzz word is converged infrastructure.

What is DevOps?

On the theme of buzz words. Here’s another one that’s been around for a little while. No one seems to be able to explain what the hell this is. This is becoming almost as bad as “Agile”, lost of people are using this term but little seem to be able to explain what the heck it is.

Simple explanation of NodeJS

NodeJS is a framework (run time environment) that allows you to run programs written in JavaScript. NodeJS is used for creating applications that sit on servers, for example a web server.

Types of computer architecture (part 1)

“Computer architecture” could refer to any number of different things in the world of enterprise technology and computer engineering.

In the enterprise “computer architecture” is usually used to mean Instruction Set Architecture. Still…

Types of Storage

A really really simple guide to types of storage.

Local Disk (HDD)

A disc or number of discs called platters store data, in the from of “0”s and “1”s, and an arm with a head is used to read and write data to the platters. HDDs are a…

Vertical and horizontal scaling simply explained

In this post we look at two terms thrown about by systems architects and breakdown what they mean. Scaling verticallay and scalling horizontally.