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CFD3 Prep Post: Oracle
Justin expresses amazement at Oracle being at Tech Field Day and has a look at why this might be. Read More
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Disclosure: Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2017
Justin discloses the corporate largesse he was exposed to at the Schneider Electric Innovation Summit. Read More
Disclosure: #CFD2 Edition
Justin discloses the corporate largesse he received during Cloud Field Day 2. Read More
Too Long; Justin Read #tljr
Justin reads boring documents so you don’t have to! Read More
Kubernetes Lab: iPXE booting
Setting up the cloudadmin server to boot cluster nodes with iPXE and DHCP. Read More
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 7 Recommendations Review
Justin reviews the new Recommendations feature of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 7 Read More
CFD1 Prep: Druva
Druva are a backup and recovery company with a mobile endpoint heritage. Their marketing is leading the product, I suspect, so let’s see what’s really going on during CFD1. Read More
Dell Solutions Tour 2015
I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More
The First Rule of Consulting
The first rule of consulting is this: “Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig.” Never try to solve a problem your client hasn’t asked you to solve. You will fail, and you will annoy people in the process. This is one of the… Read More
Abstractions Help More Than Hinder
Only the other day I commented to a colleague that the seemingly constant outbreaks of storage industry infighting on Twitter (aka twitpiss) had pretty much stopped. Then I got back on Twitter after a long and busy day to see that one had erupted over the EMC XtremIO v3.0 upgrade… Read More