From the monthly archives: April 2011
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Rise of The IT Generalist – A Bad Idea?

By On April 28, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Opinion

I was listening to a podcast today that was discussing a subject we’ve heard about many times recently and that’s the move from being IT specialists to generalists.  Hardware products like EMC’s VNX are making this transition easier for the storage community and no doubt many people think this is a good thing.  Whilst I [...]

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Cloud: Security Experts Required!

By On April 26, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Cloud

So it appears from today’s announcement that the Sony Playstation Network was hacked after all. Some 70 million users are unable to game online and other services, such as LoveFilm are down.  Whilst it has had a positive effect on our household (Call of Duty remains unplayed as Son#1 deems it uninteresting unless playing against [...]

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So Your AWS-based Application is Down? Don’t Blame Amazon

By On April 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances.  It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare,  Is it [...]

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Hitachi Bloggers Day 2011 – Part III

By On April 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Storage, Videos

Many of you will know I have the perfect face for podcasts, however along with Greg Knieriemen and Devang Panchigar I agreed to do a quick interview with Don Jennings.  Here are my ramblings and the more considered prose of Messrs Knieriemen and Panchigar.

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Comparing iSCSI Targets – Microsoft, StarWind, iSCSI Cake and Kernsafe – Part I

By On April 11, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Reviews, Storage

This week, Microsoft released their iSCSI Target software for general availability.  Previously this had only been available for installations with Windows Storage Server via OEMs.  Now anyone with Windows 2008 R2 can install and use the software without restrictions.  However, there are already a number of other iSCSI target software offerings already on the market, [...]

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Hitachi Bloggers Day 2011 – Part II

By On April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Featured, Storage

During the recent HDS Bloggers’ Day we were lucky enough to have a presentation from Dave Merrill, who covered the subject of Storage Economics.  You can find more of Dave’s work on his blog; The Storage Economist.

Within HDS Dave runs the Storage Economics practice; an area of the [...]

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Using The Dynamic Memory Feature on Microsoft Hyper-V

By On April 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Featured, Virtualisation

Microsoft recently released service pack 1 (SP1) of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes the Dynamic Memory option.  This new feature is meant to aid memory management across a Hyper-V host with multiple guests.  Previously the memory assigned to a guest was static and couldn’t be changed without a power off and reboot [...]

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