Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere

Over at TED, there’s a short yet highly interesting look at data visualisation technology called the AlloSphere. I’m a big…

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Enhancing RFEs

Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…

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Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…

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Charting vendor blogging contribution

Most vendors these days have one or more official or unofficial bloggers. In the storage industry, this is no different.…

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Larry Ellison vs The Cloud

This article came out on the 26th of September (US time), but since that was my birthday (27th, AU time),…

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Hearing hype? Do a TNB test

Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…

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Obligations were popular in September

Looking back over September, the most read/visited article was “The 7 Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators“. The goal of the…

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Aside – Dust storms in NSW

On Wednesday, a large part of NSW was engulfed in a significant dust storm event. Having grown up in the…

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Aside – The exciting world of SSD

The Register has some coverage at the moment of Intel demonstrating a (highly customised/optimised) 7 disk SSD configuration which delivered…

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Aside – Victoria Tourism

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not from Victoria; I hail from New South Wales in Australia, and there’s…

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