Hitting Reset for 2009 -> 2010

Hitting Reset for 2009 -> 2010

By: Jorke Odolphi
Date: 29 March 2010 | Category: planning, tech•ed 2009 | Tags:

So it’s well and truly time to wrap up this blog for 2009 and move to 2010, i’ve been holding off until everytime of work from last year was resolved – strangely enough that happened just last week as the last invoice was sorted… (and no I’m not kidding..)

So here’s a fast and loose summary of what we achieved – mainly to help with our planning for teched 2010.

Delegate Network
- 99.998 uptime (was a 45 second outage from a GBIC flapping..)
- ~1300 wireless clients was the highest amount connected.
- ~2TB of data downloaded (in 4 days!)
- 300GB send out.
Demonstration Network (the glass box of doom with the servers inside)
- 100% uptime on services with over 80 virtual machines hosted for speaker and other demos. This was highly under-utilized.
Major issues

Oops
- Intel Wireless drivers – escalated to Intel who were sponsoring -
  they were kind enough to help us out
- Bit Torrent – Played network cop – Rickrolled access to key sites – click here (I dare you)
- RRAS port exhaustion – escalated to our support team in India
- Live ID creation – another escalated to our support team…
- Netbook deployment – finished this with brute force
- Session Recording – Expression Encoder crashes
- Wrong URL on netbook images – network hack
- Well i think this is minor, but there was some slight damage of a netbook box…
As you can image there was so much more that went on, we’ve added a lot of these things to our planning process which has already started;

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving” – Einstein

So here go, we’re hitting the reset button – we’ll do our best to keep you update-to-date from our end – no promises of course as we’re all focused on delivering to a higher quality outcome than before.

- jorke
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