This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. EMC were the first vendor of the day. We assembled at their offices in Miller St, North Sydney and were greeted by Clive Gold, Marketing CTO for Australia and New Zealand. We filed into what looked like a custom… Read More
SNIA organised the inaugural Australia and New Zealand Blogfest on November 4, 2010. It was held in Sydney, Australia. The participating vendors were: EMC: Clive Gold @clivegold IBM: Craig McKenna, Joe Cho, Jane Bounds @janebounds, Anna Wells HDS: Adrian De Luca NetApp: John Martin @life_no_borders The attendees were: Ben Di… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. Ok, so #SNIAfest happened and now I need to write it up. Wow. SNIAfest was a new thing for all of us: SNIA, the bloggers, the vendors, and you. I’m just feeling my way through it, really, so enjoy… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. I’m off to Sydney on Thursday to attend the SNIA ANZ Blogfest. It’ll be a long day for me, since I’m flying home to Melbourne the same day, and kickoff will be from just before 8am for breakfast. It… Read More
I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More
Another TwitPiss erupted this week between the usual suspects. Over this. I don’t care about the topic of debate, really, since I’ve never personally used MetroCluster. I have used NetApp SnapMirror, sync and async, EMC BCVs, SRDF, EVAs and their data replication. And a bunch of other solutions to the… Read More
The ringleader of a circus is the one with the hat. They run the show. In a small company, the IT department consists of one or two admins who do everything. They look after the database, the network, the PCs, the phones. Everything. The one guy is always wearing the… Read More
This is part of a series on the NetApp Dynamic Data Center. If you grabbed the document from my last post about the NetApp Dynamic Data Center, you’ll have noticed the concept of a Project. Figuring out what exactly a Project is can be one of the hardest parts of… Read More
I’ve fixed a bug in version 1.2 of ModiPy relating to namespaces within iterators. I hit the bug while provisioning 3 clustered NetApp simulators in my lab. Sorry about that. I should have caught it during testing. Still, catch it I did, so now things are really working quite nicely… Read More
I’ve recently made some updates to my seafelt Configuration Manager tool, specifically around the auditing function. When I’m doing gigs for customers, I often need to check that their configuration settings are correct. It’s one of the biggest causes of problems in an environment. It gets worse when you have… Read More
