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		<title>Validating Some Power/Cooling Cost Assertions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am making a spreadsheet comparing different products and looking at longer term costs, maintenance, power, cooling, etc.  I felt that rather than scrubbing the DOE sites and trying to get power costs by state I would just use the national average, but then fell flat on that because I found negotiated rates could be much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/02/validating-some-powercooling-cost-assertions/</link>
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		<title>Request for improvements to RFC 2544</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 1999 Scott Bradner from Harvard University and Jim McQuaid of NetScout got together and published RFC 2544 - "Benchmarking Methodology."  In the subsequent eleven years this informational RFC has been used to provide a baseline for testing many networking devices.  It is designed to provide consistency between vendors so an end-customer can make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/02/request-for-improvements-to-rfc-2544/</link>
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		<title>The Peril of Earn-Out based Mergers and Acquisitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen years ago I worked at a small technology consulting firm, headquartered out of Columbia South Carolina, named The Computer Group.  TCG was acquired by IKON Office Solutions, the copier company.
IKON then went on a spending spree over the next year acquiring many technology companies, largely small to mid-size systems integrators in a fairly classic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/02/the-peril-of-earn-out-based-mergers-and-acquisitions/</link>
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		<title>High Frequency Trading Webinar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am hosting a webinar on reducing the latency in high frequency trading environments this coming Wednesday.  (which means, if you know me, that I am working furiously on PowerPoint slides, although I have been using Keynote more lately...)) HFT is pretty interesting to me as it is one of the markets I spend a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/02/high-frequency-trading-webinar/</link>
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		<title>Synthetic Testing of Automatic Transmissions</title>
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I am still a very proud alumnus of cisco Systems, but am also not bashful about areas I think the networking behemoth can improve.  My main recommendation would be to get the business units working together to consistently solve customer problems - be a big company, but act like one company, not 20 or 50 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/02/synthetic-testing-of-automatic-transmissions/</link>
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		<title>Homebrew Render-Farm.  Frankly, &#8216;just cause&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, putting this in context- I wanted  some new network icons.  Somehow all the ones I used in the past were made by an art department I strangely do not have access to anymore, and I really don't want to have to pay an agency to make them for me.  I could probably outsource somewhere, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2010/01/homebrew-render-farm-frankly-just-cause/</link>
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		<title>HP takes out 3Com- what is the next consolidation step?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People have been asking me for a while what the next 'shot' would be in the tech titan border-clash.  Cisco entered the server market with UCS, and everyone was wondering what the response would be.
I didn't think 3com would be taken off the market this quickly, I figured everyone would wait a year or so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/11/hp-takes-out-3com-what-is-the-next-consolidation-step/</link>
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		<title>Cautious Optimism, Irrational Exuberance, Full-Circle Come-a-bouts, and Economic Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cautious optimism is a term I have been having many discussions lately with friends and analysts about - whether we are seeing true economic recovery or a bit of a 'W' and whether to make serious investments in planned growth or not.  Candidly, in IT we have compressed capital spending for a while, so it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/10/cautious-optimism-irrational-exuberance-full-circle-come-a-bouts-and-economic-recovery/</link>
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		<title>ISR G2 &#8211; what I wish it was&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco announced the new ISR line recently, a 3x performance improvement for the high-end moving up to ~150Mbps.  But the question I have that has been lingering with me for a while is, "Why not use an x86 processor and a decent hypervisor with that?"
Crazy, I know, right?  But with the current set of Intel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/10/isr-g2-what-i-wish-it-was/</link>
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		<title>On Merchant Silicon and Lawnmowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello there!
I've been on a bit of a vacation the past couple of weeks, so sorry for the slow-down in posting frequency.  But now, I am back at my desk, with a decent speed Internet connection, and too many ideas on what to write about.
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Chance had it that today a friend of mine sent me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/10/on-merchant-silicon-and-lawnmowing/</link>
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