Titan Blue – Server Development & Experimentation Project

Titan Blue, is an IBM Intellistation Z Pro, a 43 Lbs, 2.66 Ghz Intel XEON workhorse that will become my new project over the next few months. I wanted to come up with a name that matched the new machine’s primary purpose. Titan, being something of exceptional importance or reputation, and Blue being derived from all that is IBM, I think the name is perfect, and here’s why…

Titan Blue will be more than a run of the mill SOHO file server. In fact the reason I’m calling this a project over and over is because it will be just that. I want to venture into potential that I have barely had the chance to graze in the past, I want overkill with this thing.

The Titan Blue project is all about functionality, and how that functionality is developed. My goal for this is not only serving up and backing up all of my essential data. I want to see how far I can bring this, what I can use it for and what it could be used for.

Some of the projects you will see posted in the projects section include - Remote file access, remote management, network diagnostics, VPN radius, network security management, and LAN domain/workgroup control. That’s not even scratching the surface, Titan Blue will be self contained, it will host itself with DNS and database support such as SQL and possibly Ruby containers. I think it would be neat to eventually see Titan Blue host it’s own development blog.

Here’s a breakdown of the server itself –

Intel Xeon processor at 2.66 GHz
512 MB PC2100 DDR RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4 AGP 8x
40GB Ultra 320 SCSI HDD

Make sure to check out My Projects Category for updates and more information.