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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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Long Term Data Retention – What do I do?
One of the more common requirements I come across on a day to day basis working with organisations across a broad spectrum of industries is the question of [..]
Pure Storage Diversity – Time for the All Flash Vendor to go All File
It was only a couple of weeks ago I was saying to some colleagues that now Pure have finished with the whole IPO business, I thought they needed to diversify [..]
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 [..]
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Software Defined Storage Virtualisation – How useful is that then?
Ignoring the buzzword bingo post title, storage virtualisation is not a new thing (and for my American cousins, yes, it should be spelt with an s! 🙂 ). NetApp [..]
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