The DellWorld’15 Solutions Exchange was a fascinating departure from the kinds of show floors I’m used to at recent trade shows. Instead of a raucous visual cacophony of booths competing for attention, the DellWorld show floor was a relatively sedate affair. Aside from a chosen few, the booths were identical… Read More
What if cloud computing becomes the fully integrated steel mill of the future? What would disruptive mini-mills look like? I was musing on resiliency issues recently, which led to an interesting line of thinking that I’d like to share. I use the mini-mill analogy because it’s often cited in business school… Read More
On Tuesday at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London, Google shared details, and I do mean details, on the way their internal datacentre networks are (or at least were) constructed. In a paper titled Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network [PDF] the authors describe how… Read More
Much is being made of DevOps of late, and I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients in this area. What amuses me greatly is how little things have changed in the past several decades. This post by eBay cloud architect Subbu Allamaraju highlights a central struggle of IT: how… Read More
This is the third post in a series on vROps sponsored by VMware. Check out part 1 and part 2. I’ve had vROps running in the lab for over a month now, and I’ve also been playing with it in Hands On Labs. Overall, it’s a good product, though not… Read More
I’ve had to write this email multiple times now, so, taking my own advice, I’ll write it as a blog and then I can just send the link to people. As can you! Vendors, particularly storage vendors, like to say Quality of Service when they mean priority throttling, and they… Read More
This past weekend, I added a bunch of sound dampening tiles to my home office to make it sound less “echo-y” when recording audio in the room. I’ve always loved sound recording rooms, the walls covered in sound dampening foam tiles. There’s just something about the quietness of these rooms.… Read More
I first met Scale Computing at Storage Field Day 5, and I was impressed. Their gear is ideally suited for small- to mid-size companies, often without oodles of bandwidth to the Internet to use cloud based services, and with on-site systems that need to be controlled, like manufacturers. The HC3x… Read More
StorMagic make a Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) storage product called SvSAN that provides an iSCSI virtual SAN appliance (VSA) as a Linux virtual machine. It works as a 2-node synchronously mirrored cluster of VMs that provide storage services. There are some excellent blogs on the details, such as this one… Read More
I hooked up my MooresCloud Holiday to the stereo today so that I could sync up the light display with TripleJ’s Hottest 100 countdown. The Hottest 100 is a bit of a tradition for me; I’ve listened to it every year since 1993, and I have a few other personal… Read More
