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Jul 8 2016 4 min read

ComoreTel — Distributed Private Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization: Propose Solution

Moved a telecom routing operation off unreliable commodity desktop hardware onto a geographically redundant private cloud, end to end — including the procurement, logistics, and physical build: Why the chosen direction fit the constraint better than patching around the edges.

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May 27 2016 4 min read

ComoreTel — Distributed Private Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization: Discovery

Moved a telecom routing operation off unreliable commodity desktop hardware onto a geographically redundant private cloud, end to end — including the procurement, logistics, and physical build: How the problem surfaced, what the evidence showed, and why the old path stopped holding up.

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Apr 15 2016 5 min read

ComoreTel — Distributed Private Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization: Introduction

Moved a telecom routing operation off unreliable commodity desktop hardware onto a geographically redundant private cloud, end to end — including the procurement, logistics, and physical build: A practical overview of the system, the constraint that shaped it, and the work flow behind the build.

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Mar 1 2015 4 min read

West Corporation — VMware IVR Performance & Capacity Analytics: Lessons Learned

Led the benchmarking work that decided whether latency-sensitive IVR telecom systems could safely move from dedicated hardware to VMware on Cisco UCS — a multi-million-dollar infrastructure call: What the project proved about the system and what should carry forward into the next build.

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Feb 3 2015 4 min read

West Corporation — VMware IVR Performance & Capacity Analytics: Conclusion

Led the benchmarking work that decided whether latency-sensitive IVR telecom systems could safely move from dedicated hardware to VMware on Cisco UCS — a multi-million-dollar infrastructure call: What shipped, what changed operationally, and what still needed to be watched after delivery.

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Jan 7 2015 4 min read

West Corporation — VMware IVR Performance & Capacity Analytics: Build Process 4

Led the benchmarking work that decided whether latency-sensitive IVR telecom systems could safely move from dedicated hardware to VMware on Cisco UCS — a multi-million-dollar infrastructure call: The final build step before the system was ready to ship and operate.

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