Getting Fired & Taking a Sabbatical … and How it Changed Things for Me
Pushed to the brink and taking the break I never knew I needed.
Converged versus Hyperconverged
Hyperconverged is simply "more converged" than converged.
Welcome to the Data Consolidation Era!
Data consolidation will be the next big move for IT departments to regain control of their data.
The Four Tiers of Career Opportunity
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.
Coming Up for Air
Last week, on May 19th, 2015, I was laid off from NetApp.
Benchmarking: SPC-1 & Nürburgring
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.
Storage Guy gets a Synology DS1813+
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…
OK, Sure, We’ll Call it ‘Software-Defined Storage’
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…
Peering into 2013 and Beyond
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…
NetApp Clustered ONTAP Design Deep Dive
I’ve been waiting a long time to get to this post. I knew it needed to be talked about, I wanted to make sure we did it right, and I finally found the right person to speak as an SME…