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Man the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)
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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 around the system to keep it working. When we fielded…

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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 systems already and one does not rule them all. The…

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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 various design philosophies, engineering choices we made, things that we…

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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 to believe, out to prospective customers. As customers though, we…

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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 have been caused by multiple issues with their EMC storage. It's…

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What to Do When Not Enough Server Storage is Available

It could be that you are just out of space and need to delete records to create storage space but it would be more helpful to take a systematic approach…

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