Pumpkin is the best little puppy. She loves the car, socializing and snoozing while watching tv.
PUMPKIN – working on her treat from Stephen Klenert on Vimeo.
Here she is having a treat.
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Good Morning. As some of you may already know we’ve chosen a name.
I am so happy to welcome “Pumpkin” into my home and start showing her some love.
Morning of Day2 watching TV with me.
Don’t forget to check out all the dogs Curly Tail has up for Adoption: http://www.curlytailpugrescue.org/Adoption
Please donate anything you can so that we can keep Pumpkin healthy and happy.
Happy Saturday Everyone.
As some of you may know, @reneeclements and I recently signed up to be foster parents for Curly Tail Pug Rescue. Yesterday we got a call about an abused 5 month old fawn puppy that was going to be surrendered. They needed an immediate home for it, so we sprang into action.
The puppy is now in safe hands, and will be evaluated by our vet. There is a small potential that is has Femoral head ostectomy (FHO) and will need surgery.
More updates soon, in the mean time follow us on twitter;
@klenert
@reneeclemetns
and donate to Curly Tail Pug Resume to help all of our dog find a great home.
This is a re-blog from: http://olahav.typepad.com from OUTBRAIN
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, from the early days of outbrain we chose not to base our system serving on a cloud solution and establish our own serving farm. I guess it is not because we did not know that cloud exist or was afraid to try cloud. I think it was because we were somehow funded and as graduates of big internet companies we thought that if we want this company be as big we have to start our infrastructure the way the big ones start – with our Owned and Operated data center.
Datacenter That doesn’t mean you own the facility but when you start it you buy your own hardware and host it with some Colocation facility vendor. There are lots of such vendors with different sizes and locations. Most of them gives very much the standard service of power, network, security, power redundancy,etc… but I want to talk here about 2 aspects that are most important and makes our Colocation supplier exceptional – Serviceability and Professionalism.
It’s been almost 2 years now that we are working with Atlantic Metro Communications (AMC) as our Colocation vendor. We have been hosted somewhere else before and forced to move in a short notice. We have also tried Amazon AWS for short period and got disappointed but now after long enough with AMC and handling almost 20X growth in our traffic I can recommend these guys to you all.
The reasons is the 2 factors that made them so exceptional and a good fit for company like outbrain:
* Best customer service – Like outbrain, for the AMC staff, customer satisfaction is a core value. Like an integral part in the DNA. Yes, they do have a proper ticketing system and a proper NOC like any other vendor, but you can also submit a ticket or send a mail and get an immediate reply, in the middle of the night from Steve Klenert, their CEO, taking care of the problem or answering one of your questions. You can see that with all AMC staff which is always eager to help and share from their experience and knowledge, even when the case is not in their direct responsibility. For a CTO of a company located across the ocean from his Datacenter, this is super helpful.
* Being professional- knowledge in the technology zone is always something you can argue about. I believe no one is perfect and knows it all. However, there is something that makes a professional staff… mania for solving problems. When it comes to handling internet WAN and LAN networks, it is such a huge domain that nearly every problem is different from the other. Experts with good understanding in this domain and enthusiasm for solving each problem will eventually nail it and solve it. That’s one of the things I see in AMC staff, these are guys I can count on for solving problems and will not give me answers like “That’s vendor X problem, nothing we can do about it”.
outbrain is growing fast and so does our infrastructure I’m pretty sure AMC will keep being on our help in the foreseeable future.
One word for you, when you want to choose a colocation vendor, contact @klenert and see what he has to offer, you’ll not regret it.
www.klenert.net
www.outbrain.com
www.atlanticmetro.net
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I was quoted in TMCNet article about Metro Ethernet.
Riding the (CWDM) Wave
Atlantic Metro Communications operates advanced Internet Data Centers and networks throughout the New York Metropolitan area and Chicago. The company also provides managed ISP solutions, colocation, metro transport, IP bandwidth, managed hosting and voice solutions. They provide services to many ISPs, web hosting solution providers, enterprise financial networks, Web 2.0 startups, VoIP suppliers, and carriers. Currently, Atlantic Metro Communication’s global network includes multiple PoPs in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, Canada and London, UK.
James Cornman, CTO, says, “We offer CWDM (Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing) Layer 1 passive waves. It allows our provider and enterprise customers to put their own equipment on the wave and be guaranteed a secure channel — there’s no shared infrastructure, it’s not switched Ethernet, which is what many other carriers offer. We can provide services to carriers on a fully dedicated Layer 1 passive channel. No intermediary electronics are necessary. We provide the optics on either side, which we also manufacture. We can also provide lit Layer 2 Ethernet services via our fiber infrastructure, as well as ourWiMAX ( News – Alert) infrastructure, seamlessly between any type of medium. We can deliver a 20 Meg tail circuit via WiMAX or you can also bridge that into a building connected at 100 Mbps. Our whole infrastructure nationwide is pure Ethernet; there’s no SONET anywhere in it. Our topologies run the gamut from point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, full ring, and so forth. We offer the CWDM services in Manhattan and metro area.”
“We see our carrier business growing as people increasingly outsource and replace more expensive solutions with converged technology that we offer,” says Stephen Klenert, Atlantic Metro’s CEO. “We see SONET eventually being phased out. MPLS is becoming a bit more prevalent but that’s an independent phenomenon. As a whole, with the offerings we bring to the table, customers tend to hub a lot of connections off one physical port or in other cases multiple ports in different markets or buildings. Overall, Ethernet is a far better platform to grow, particularly considering the current state of the market, with people not wanting to spend as much capital to get the bandwidth they need.”
Continue reading the full article here: http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/0209/metro-ethernet-marches-on.htm
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through Telehouse;
Not a blacklist was stirring, not even Spamhaus.
Security was sleeping all snug at their desk,
While Klenert and Cornman tried to reinstall Plesk.
And I with my spool of fiber in check,
Had just settled down to run a ghetto crossconnect.
When out in the hall there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my cabinet to see what was the matter.
The power went out and no one could see,
“Not again,” I muttered, “it’s UPS 3″.
Then suddenly the colo door flew open with a crash;
I threw down the tile puller, and hid all my cash.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a crazy looking Russian, who seemed a bit queer.
He was dressed in a trapeze suit, from his head to his toe,
And his teeth were all yellow like a cracksmoking ho.
And under the leotard was a Russian Bear sweater,
with nipple hole cut-outs, and shoes of shark leather.
With his pants hiked up almost to his boob,
I exclaimed, “Hey I know you, I saw your karaoke on YouTube!”
A bundle of batteries he had flung on his back,
He sat down like a gypsy and opened his sack.
He spoke not a word, set up a sign with a smirk,
“UPS $50, n0 j0ke, these things w3rk!”
And as the batteries sold out, he exclaimed with delight,
“Now Randy won’t hate me, I can pay Amex tonight.”
Then he packed up his bag and leapt from his perch,
And said “I must get back to my ground-breaking research!”
He ran to the window, which Telehouse calls cooling,
And hopped into a sled that left everyone drooling.
It had rims, it had dubs, it couldn’t have been slicker,
And there on the back, a Paul Wall bumper sticker!
“Now Spyware! now Phishing! now CP and Spam!”
“On DDoS! on Backdoor! on Virus and Scam!”
And as he rode out of sight, he said “I’ve got to bail,”
“But Merry Christmas to all, and the check’s in the mail.”
