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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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I Like Big Files and I Cannot Lie
You other vendors, can’t deny, When an array walks in with an itty bitty waste [-ed capacity], And many spindles in your face You get sprung, want to [..]
Site Performance and Downtime
This is just a quick note to apologise for any downtime and/or slow performance at the moment. My shared web host (Evohosting) primary web server has been providing [..]
Amazon AWS Tips and Gotchas – Part 3 – S3, Tags and ASG
Continuing in this series of blog posts taking a bit of a “warts and all” view of a few Amazon AWS features, below are a handful more tips [..]
AWS, Storage
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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, [..]
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