Iaas Series: Amazon S3 Version Objects Lifecyle Management
S3, or Simple Storage Service is Amazon’s high capacity, high resiliency object store. The company recently announced a new feature, which allows versioned objects (those objects where multiple...
View ArticleHDS Influencers’ Day and Speaking in Tech Podcast
Last week I was fortunate to spend the first few days in Colorado Springs, staying at The Broadmoor resort. I was attending Hitachi’s HDS Influencers’ Day, a small select group of 30 people chosen...
View ArticleCloud as a Tier of Storage
In my last post I talked about storage tiering and how it has evolved with the advent of new technology and of course the arrival of flash storage to mainstream deployments. One of the comments on...
View ArticleHewlett Packard Splits In Two
Overnight news officially broke that Hewlett Packard Inc is to divide its business into two, focusing on PCs and printing through HP Inc and enterprise services and hardware through a company to be...
View ArticleAvere Systems Releases Virtual Edge Filer To Deliver Data to Compute
It’s been a little over three years since I first was introduced to Avere Systems at what was SNW Europe (now Powering The Cloud) in Frankfurt. At the time, the positioning on their FXT hardware...
View ArticleIs Basic Security Really That Hard, Sony?
In something that feels like the 1980’s, Gizmodo has published an article showing that Sony used spreadsheets to track their system passwords. Worse than that, the spreadsheets and folders clearly...
View ArticleHP Discover Review: The Machine
This is one of a series of posts covering technology announced or discussed at HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Disclaimer: I was personally invited to attend HP Discover, with HP covering my...
View Article2014 in Review
As we approach the start of a new working year, it’s time to take the almost traditional and obligatory review of the year hence. So, what made the news and how does that provide us insight on the...
View ArticleChange Control in Cloud Services
The post mortem summary on Microsoft’s most recent Azure outage is available and online here. The content makes for interesting reading. To summarise, the outage occurred as a result of an...
View ArticlevSphere vDS SPAN port with Wireshark in 2 minutes
I often find myself searching for facts to dispel “hearsay” and guesswork in troubleshooting discussions between the Network and Windows VM teams. This article is intended to show just how...
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