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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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Tag Archives: Cloud
Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)
It may surprise you to learn that Docker is actually quite old now (at least in Startup terms!), having released the first version of their very cool software [..]
Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?
I wrote last week about the challenges of long-term retention of data, and some of the architectural considerations and decisions we take in designing long-term backup or archive [..]
Startup Spotlight: Re-skill, Pivot or Get Squashed
The subject matter of this post is a startup of sorts and was triggered by a conversation I had with an industry veteran a few months back. By [..]
What’s your definition of Cloud DR, and how far down do the turtles go?
WARNING – Opinion piece! No Cloud Holy Wars please! DR in IT can mean many different things to different people. To a number of people I have spoken to [..]