In a somewhat surprising turn of events, I’ll be going to Dell World 2012 in December, as a guest of Dell. I’ll be there as part of the media pool from Australia as the only blogger. It looks like social networking is one of the main themes of the event,… Read More
As promised, this is my article providing advice to vendors, and bloggers, who sign up to be part of a blogger field day, aka BlogFest. SNIA have held two of these events, and as an attendee at both, I have some tips based on what worked well, and not so… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Symantec were the last vendor of the day, and we arrived more or less on time at their offices in North Sydney, which is quite a feat given the distances between vendors all day. We were met by Michael Porfirio,… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Update 2011-07-29: Download the slides from the Dell presentation here. Update 2011-08-10: I’ve received an email from Dell with some clarifications and corrections, which are updated inline, with some extra information near the end. Dell was our third vendor for… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest2 The second session was hotly anticipated in the bus on the way over. After such a strong showing by DiData, I was hoping for a day full of focus on customers and their issues, and how the vendors were addressing them… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. First vendor of the day were Dimension Data at their offices in The Rocks, Sydney. SNIA very kindly bought us breakfast downstairs, and we all had a quick catchup before the session. Rodney was excluded from the first session on… 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
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
Firstly, some disclosure: I do a lot of work with NetApp kit, and have a close working relationship with them. In the past, I’ve had a close working relationship with Sun Professional Services. SunOS was the first Unix I learned on. I even owned some Sun stock once. Sun have… Read More
My name is Justin Warren and I live in Melbourne, Australia. Eigenmagic is my personal blog. Mostly it’s about technology and governance, with a smattering of other topics thrown in for good measure. I write about whatever I think people might be interested in. I tend towards long form prose… Read More
