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Greetings, fellow humans! I'm a proud dad of two awesome kids, and my other love is Cloud! Working for 20+ years in tech has taught me 2 things; always have a backup and yes, it was the network! When I'm not working as CTO, AWS @SoftwareOne, I write blogs and occasionally do a bit of podcasting too...-
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Where and why is my data growing?…
I’ve written recently about issues of data gravity and data inertia, and about how important analytics are to managing your data “stockpile”, but one thing I haven’t gone [..]
Storage, Tech Field Day
aggregates, analytics, filesystem, NAS, NFS, QSFS, Qumulo, REST, scale-out, SFD8, SMB, statistics, storage, Tech Field Day, TFD
How often do you upgrade your storage array software?
Upgrades are scary! Having managed and implemented upgrades on highly available systems such as the old Sun StorageTech line of rebranded HDS USP/VSP arrays back in the day, [..]
Without good Analytics you dont have a competitive storage product
Throughout my career, analysing storage utilisation for solution design and capacity management has not been an easy task! Even recently when I speak to customers about utilisation, they [..]