Over the years it has become clear to me that most people do not do a good job of evaluating shared storage systems, whether a SAN, big or small, a…
The latest version adds frictionless data management capabilities to RackTop’s data ecosystem. July 14, 2015, Fulton, MD. – RackTop Systems Inc., creator of the Data Ecosystem and a leading provider…
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…
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…
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…
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…
