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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Yesterday we installed the new blade centres and the new storage systems. I felt like a boy carrying around new toys. With this worm and fuzzy “Christmas eve just after opening the presents” feeling. When we arrived in the new hosting facility, looking down on the power outlet under the rack, my happiness slowly transformed […]

Want to become a TTS Voice? Now you can!

Friday, March 7th, 2008

I met one of our TTS suppliers the other day. Lars-Erik Larsson, the CEO of Acapela Group. He told me about their latest development being a service to create corporate voices for their text-to-speech engine. The coolest thing was that they could now offer it at a very reasonable cost thanks to a new technology […]

From servers to blades

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Since we started with our speaking web services about 9 years ago we have grown quite a bit. Growing from a lonely Sun Ultra 5 back in 2000 to about 50 high capacity servers of various kinds today. That’s a whole lot of servers…
Managing that number of servers is not the easiest task, and wow how […]