Category Archives: Links

ViMbAdmin – We Have a Logo!

As an example of open source in action, we had a note on our Google Code page for ViMbAdmin with a wanted section asking for a logo. Yesterday morning I received a mail from Robert Bell, self professed Head Nerd … Continue reading

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All Hands on Deck for WINI at the Mobile World Congress

WINI Technologies to present their product at three stands at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which Open Solutions have helped them develop. Continue reading

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IANA IPv4 Free Pool Exhausted

The IANA IPv4 free pool was exhausted today, 3 February 2011. Each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) has now received one of the final five /8s. Continue reading

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INEX Breaks 10Gbps Barrier – Again

INEX, Ireland’s Neutral Internet Exchange Point, broke the 10Gbps barrier last week coinciding with the Government’s budget announcement. It didn’t quite break the previous record from the announcement of the four year plan. This traffic spike would have been primarily driven by HEAnet … Continue reading

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INEX Breaks 10Gbps Barrier

INEX, Ireland’s neutral Internet Exchange Point, broke the 10Gbps barrier last week coinciding with the Government’s launch of their four year plan: Reaching a new record high, traffic at INEX, Ireland’s Internet Exchange Point, has exceeded the 10Gigabit per second … Continue reading

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WINI on the WSJ: “No More Waiting for Taxis in the Rain”

One of our customers got a great write up on the Wall Street Journal from their appearance at the the MobiTechFest Europe. Sometimes you meet a start-up with a solution that is so obvious, and so neat, yet solves a … Continue reading

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IPv6 – Are You Ready?

An excellent ‘viral’ video from Cisco. Continue reading

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PostgreSQL 9.0 Released with Mission Critical Features

Here at Open Solutions, we’ve always used and advocated MySQL for high availability mission critical applications thanks to it’s built in binary replication features. This was a feature PostgreSQL sorely lacked but it is some thing that has also been … Continue reading

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Amazon Add a ‘Micro’ EC2 Instance

Amazon have announced new micro instances on their EC2 platform which work out 75% cheaper than the next size up. These smaller instances can have a number of interesting uses… Continue reading

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Link: MySQL Best Practices

I came across this site today which has some good advice for MySQL. I’m particularly happy to see that Doctrine, a relatively new ORM for PHP which we’re big fans of, is gaining some traction. Continue reading

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