Cybera benefits from Cenovus office furniture donation
Cybera’s staff are now working comfortably in a range of high-end office suites that were donated by Cenovus and the charitable group Deliver Good. [...]
MonthApril 2013
IOPS in a windows boot storm
We are going to boot 30 Windows 7 virtual machines ‘ each with one virtual CPU (vCPU) and two gigabytes of memory ‘ in two ‘boot storm’ tests: one where we boot the virtual machines (VMs), 240 seconds apart, and the second where we boot 20 seconds apart, and watch the IOPS use while that is happening. [...]
Nine local inventors recognized by Alberta legislature
Alberta nominees for Canada’s most prestigious innovation awards, the 2013 Ernest C. Manning Awards, were introduced to members of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton last week to help draw attention to the important role of technology entrepreneurs in the province. [...]
The Rise of the Meta Operating System
Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Servers, So We Put a Server in Yo Server so You can Serve More Servers Like an [...]
The best development tool is…Internet Relay Chat?
The more I work with cutting edge technology ‘ which, for me, means software that is still being heavily developed and doesn’t have good documentation yet, or software that isn’t commonly used ‘ the more I find Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to be helpful. [...]
Cloud experts from Alberta working with world’s elite
American company Nebula has launched a “cloud in a box” called Nebula One. Cybera was the first Nebula pilot-testing partner in one of only two Canadian sites. [...]
Covering up complexity
Over half of the jobs I’ve held during my IT career have been with public service providers ‘ whether providing internet or web hosting [...]