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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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Looking Forward to Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9)
So for those of you who love to nerd out on storage like I do, you have probably already heard of the awesome streaming events put on by [..]
Why are storage snapshots so painful?
Have you ever wondered why we don’t use snapshots more often than about every 5-15 minutes in most solutions, and in many others, a lot less often than [..]
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, [..]
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