Entries by Carl Easterday

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) adding security to your organization

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has many benefits (among them): A scalable infrastructure: Virtual desktops have become more appealing due to the cloud. By using adaptable infrastructure to provide resources as needed, the consolidation of the full VDI desktop infrastructure onto a host server lowers overall costs because businesses don’t have to purchase or maintain the necessary […]

Cisco drives that operate for 40k hours will cease to function

Cisco just announced a new Field notice regarding Defect ID CSCvt55829 which is an industry wide firmware index bug. Under normal operation, after 40,000 power-on hours (4.5 years), the SSD will report that 0 GB of available storage space remains. The drive will go offline and become unusable. These drives were used in the following […]