Tag Archive - cloud computing

Gryphon is live. Long live to myths.

January 17, 2011 in , , , , , , with 77 Comments

Les Laboratoires Phoenix is pushing a new cluster – MYTH – in production. Normally, this isn’t really worthy of a blog post – nobody really care how many systems I deploy for clients – but since this isn’t for a specific client, it get a bit more interesting:

“Phase 1″ capacity of this multi-tenants (fully redundant) cluster is of 7.18 GHZ, 16GB Ram, 1TB. Phase 2 (next 2 weeks) will see it grow to 21.54ghz, 48gb rams and 10TB. End of February is the target date for the phase 3: 2x on each of those numbers. Everything in this cluster is already redundant – but getting bigger number is always fun.

Tonight, 3 systems get integrated (virtualized). It represent economy of about 600$/month for this client. He won’t need his half rack + bandwidth + power…

blog.pacharest.com->cloudweaver.org

June 25, 2010 in , , , , , , with 108 Comments

Business open as usual

photo: Business open as usual, by Pascal Charest

Re-launch of blog.pacharest.com under a new name (cloudweaver.org) & new url. Lots of reasons. Main one? I wanted it to be so – but also :
– because I have contractual engagement that the change of domain name will help to clear up.
– because I want to focus on network infrastructure (mainly dynamic and virtualized ones) from now on.
– because I wanted to integrate twitter somewhere on my blog (now directly in my feed/post page).

Couples of stats/facts.

October 10, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , with 86 Comments

As I look over 6 very interesting projects overview on my desk, I’m forced to do a bit of thinking about how the last year went by. A year is a lot of time, and so much plans finally came to fruition that I can’t think of listing them all here today. Which is kinda a good sign for me and my enterprise ;-)

Most of my readers doesn’t really know who I am, even when you take into account that I blog under my real name. Most don’t know that I bought a condo in Hull (now part of Gatineau, near Ottawa – the capital of Canada), that I still have a rent in Montreal, that I proposed to my girlfriend (she said “Yes!”), that I own a dog (greatest experience of forcing a regular schedule I ever had), that my greatest motivation in life is to be able to go where I want, whenever I want. My dream is going back to Yosemite, California… and bring hiking gear.

Another big aspect of my life is my business, Les Laboratoires Phoenix. I’ve been working full time at it for the last 9 months and its been a great experience. Over those months : I’ve worked with clients from 7 countries, contributed to 3 major open source projects, went to the “Free Software Foundation” Libre Planet confrence in Boston, went to the DefCon in Las Vegas, I’ve been named SME for {Zabbix, Zimbra, Asterisk, OpenLDAP, extended LAMP Stack, Mailman, GlusterFS, Lustre, MySQL, Cloud Computing, …}, 3 of my articles have been published (>40K prints), and I’m involved in a book project (from a major publisher)…

And, even thinking about all those achievements, I still look for the future of Les Laboratoires Phoenix. I guess that working with startups influenced me a lot : those 6 projects are all different from each others, they represent good revenue potential (clear business plan) and require low capital input to be started. So, I guess I’ll stop speaking about them and work ;-). Btw, two of those projects would be online services (SAAS) for well known parts of Internet infrastructure (not webserver). Another is a cloud computing infrastructure services based in Montreal (this one if almost finished! & I got an hardware provider)… A lot of fun to be had.

More news to come.

new projects

September 17, 2009 in , , , , , , , with 136 Comments

There we go. Just got a proposal accepted by one of my Montreal based client for a new joint venture in the field of cloud computing. Estimate time before full disclosure of the project is 2 weeks from now. Might not be really cute at first, but it’s going to be very useful. Hardware is pseudo-ready (not yet in rack) but we are speaking of nice stuff.

And I’m finishing the draft for another proposal, this, however, would be a lone venture from Les Laboratoires Phoenix for a specialized service (yet very used) that isn’t readily available (at a normal cost). We are speaking of about 100x less (in respect of recurring cost) of what’s currently available. Also a 2 weeks ETA for this one.

Might even have found an employee. Things are really moving fast.

projets!

February 9, 2009 in , , , , with 139 Comments

Way too much interesting projects, not enough time! Never enough.

My next one will be a lot more public than what I’m used to – should be quite a commotion created around it.

Another upcoming project will require me to direct upon all kind of teams… got hardware suppliers, financial contributors, software developers. Some very interesting aspect in leading all this.

In the mean time, I’ll post some pictures (soon).

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