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Man the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)

Man the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)

In my days as an IT manager there were times that operators and admins effectively had to be near or…

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BrickstorOS Engineering Series: Packages Take Too Much Time

In the last post I talked about complexity of package management, the fact that there are a multitude of packaging…

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BrickstorOS Engineering Series: We Don’t Need No Stinking Packages

For a while now I wanted to begin writing a series of posts on the subject of RackTop's BrickstorOS, specifically…

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Advertised IOP Numbers Are Not Indicators Of Actual Work Capacity

One thing that seems invariable is that all vendors flaunt IO numbers, in some cases numbers that are almost impossible…

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Intercloud? Um…We Have That

I'm not one to compare myself to others, or worry about what anyone else is doing. When I was much…

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The Right Cloud Architecture, Hardware, and Operations Plan

Several days ago a cloud provider in Australia, Dimension Data, had an outage lasting over 24 hours that was deemed to…

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