Crucial Paradigm Australia Official Blog
Crucial Updates
It’s been another great year thanks to the support of all our customers, and the great work by the Crucial team. We really have taken some leaps and bounds over the past 12 months with significant improvements to our support and service offerings.
We are very excited about the upcoming year, and providing a new round of great improvements to you! (more…)
World IPv6 day is a “test flight” for IPv6 across the internet, with large networks such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, and many others taking part to test IPv6 connectivity across a period of 24 hours. This is to help raise awareness and push network operators, OS vendors, software vendors, content providers, and other organisations which provide software or hardware that rely on the IP protocol to start supporting IPv6. (more…)
Very often you can get caught up in long complicated marketing or sales strategies but you should never forget the 101′s. Value is still one of the best ways to not only attract customers but it’s also a great way of building long term relationships. Here are a couple quick tips on what you can do to help deliver better value to your customers.
I thought it might good to provide everyone with some photos of the new HP SAN and Blade infrastructure that we will soon be deploying our services on. We’re extremely excited about the opportunities it will bring to our customers as well as our business. These photos have been taken during testing and we are still adding Blades and SAN modules to the environment.
We have been hard at work this year to bring our customers a new level of high availability. Our order has placed with HP for a SAN and Blade setup, and should arrive in days.
What does this mean?
This means we will be able to provide a higher level of uptime on our entire product range. The new setup is designed with no single point of failure in mind across all aspects of the setup. This means if server goes offline or fails it will be automatically started on a new node with minimal downtime (seconds/minutes). Unlike traditional SANs, the SAN we have selected (HP P4000 G2) allows for a single or multiple shelf failure without the SAN or volumes going down – this adds unprecedented reliability to the SAN.
Want to see what a Hard Drive manufacturer looks like when it gets the “Axe”? (more…)
As you might have already seen we like doing thing’s to Ross’s desk while he’s away, this could be seen as us picking on Ross however it’s all in good fun and a little payback.
A lot of things happen behind the closed doors at the Crucialplex, this year we also shipped around 100 server over from our US Data centre as part of a strategic move that we have been planning. Once in our office we realised that well, 100 servers really takes up a lot of space! Therefore we have appropriately named the them ‘The Great Wall of Servers’.
Too many times I see friends and customers lose their work, photos, music and movies (legal cough) because they didn’t have a proper backup plan, I’m going to touch on this topic and hopefully I’ll provide a bit of an eye opener to everyone who hasn’t already implemented a good backup solution.
Let’s all officially welcome Ross to the Crucial Team! Ross is a Windows Systems Administrator who also has two years experience working with VMware virtualisation software. Ross has joined Crucial looking to expand his knowledge and experience with Virtualization focusing now on Web hosting industry. Ross will spend the next 4 months getting to know our business and our customers and starting January 2010 he will take on a more complex role looking to improve our business processes and virtualisation offerings.
If you speak to Ross please welcome him to the team =)