A lot of the responses to my previous post on taking a sabbatical that I received privately were inquiries about what I was up to, and a lot of questions around what all this Orbital Jigsaw mumbo-jumbo is about. So, rather…
Pushed to the brink and taking the break I never knew I needed.
Hyperconverged is simply "more converged" than converged.
Data consolidation will be the next big move for IT departments to regain control of their data.
I thought I would write up a little "thinking out loud" synopsis of what I've been thinking, pros vs cons, and ultimately where I'm leaning, in case any of you happen to be going through similar circumstances, or find yourself job hunting in our vast industry.
Last week, on May 19th, 2015, I was laid off from NetApp.
Benchmarks exist for a reason. We need a standardized measuring stick for which to measure things against. For the automotive world, the lap time at the Nürburgring has become this benchmark for which to strive. For the storage sector of the IT industry, that benchmark is SPC-1.
DISCLOSURE: After chasing both Synology and QNAP for a couple of years now to try out their various Home NAS products in exchange for a full blog review, only to be met with “We’ll give you 10% off,” I bit…
A comment was made on the podcast the other day and the first thing that came to mind was this. Let’s have a bit of a Reality Check for a moment. This whole notion of “Software-Defined” is not much…
As has become [almost] the status quo for tech bloggers, it’s borderline-mandatory that we do a “predictions for the next year” type of post, so that we can look back on it and laugh the following year. I didn’t get…
