{"id":1773,"date":"2010-01-17T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2010-01-17T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:53:12","slug":"nybbles-for-the-end-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/nybbles-for-the-end-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Nybbles for the end of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few things I&#8217;ve found fascinating this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Why do IT operations suck?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotaisle.com\/2008\/09\/05\/why-do-it-operations-suck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why do IT operations suck?<\/a> An insightful article by Steve O&#8217;Donnell. Steve asks why our staff who have primary involvement with systems 24&#215;7 (operators) are often the least skilled, least trained and least paid. (As a consultant, I&#8217;ve frequently experienced companies who consider it a waste of time to properly train operators, and as a result their systems usually suffer for it.)<\/li>\n<li>Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber has an article called <a title=\"The Original Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/01\/the_original_tablet\" target=\"_blank\">The Original Tablet<\/a>. (It&#8217;s a great historical perspective on why Microsoft can&#8217;t exclusively claim ownership of the tablet idea.)<\/li>\n<li>Like many others, I found <a title=\"Google: A new approach to China\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/new-approach-to-china.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s slap in the face to China&#8217;s net censorship and cyber-warfare activities<\/a> well timed and highly appropriate. On the other hand, others such as John Obeto over at <a title=\"Google didn't leave China after all, did they?\" href=\"http:\/\/absolutelywindows.com\/blog\/2010\/1\/17\/google-didnrsquot-leave-china-after-all-did-they.html\" target=\"_blank\">Absolutely Windows found it not much more than petty PR<\/a>. Somewhere in the middle is probably the whole story&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Over at IT Depends, I found <a title=\"Shhh Microsoft Cloud Storage SLA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itdependsblog.com\/2010\/01\/13\/sshhhhh-microsoft-cloud-storage-sla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terri McClure&#8217;s views on Microsoft&#8217;s requirements for accessing their Azure SLAs<\/a> to be the same as mine \u2013 staggeringly stupid. (According to Microsoft Fanboy site The Register, <a title=\"Microsoft plucks Azure from ... something or other at the Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/01\/15\/azure_cloud_sla_nda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft are reviewing their decision<\/a> on that one.)<\/li>\n<li>Storagebod got me thinking again about <a title=\"Availability and Uptime\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/availability-and-uptime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Availability and Uptime<\/a> with his article about <a title=\"How is availability measured?\" href=\"http:\/\/storagebod.typepad.com\/storagebods_blog\/2010\/01\/how-do-you-measure-availability.html\" target=\"_blank\">how availability is measured<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Not technically reading, but I&#8217;ve finally jumped on board the growing number of listeners to <a title=\"Infosmack\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=317295841\" target=\"_blank\">Infosmack<\/a>. This podcast is run by Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley, and frequently has guests from many of the storage vendors and other storage bloggers. I&#8217;m really regretting that I haven&#8217;t been listening to it for longer. It&#8217;s definitely going to be a regular podcast for me from now on.<\/li>\n<li>Over at Storage Monkeys, Sunshine Mugrabi&#8217;s article on <a title=\"Going Social - EMC Stands Tall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.storagemonkeys.com\/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=going-social-emc-stands-tall.html&amp;Itemid=136\" target=\"_blank\">EMC&#8217;s heavy involvement in social networking<\/a> is definitely worth reviewing. (For what it&#8217;s worth, if you haven&#8217;t ever read it, you need to read <a title=\"The Cluetrain Manifesto\" href=\"www.cluetrain.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Cluetrain Manifesto<\/a> if you think that all this social networking stuff is rubbish or just a passing fad. It isn&#8217;t. Written years before its time, The Cluetrain Manifesto is a clear and articulate series of essays about exactly how important social networking is.)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, there&#8217;s been some interesting discussions on VMware and application level VSS backups through VCB\/vSphere. Check my posting <a title=\"VCB\/VSS\/VMware Coverage\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/win-vss-vmware-vcb-vsphere\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the summary of the important links to be following about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finishing up, a little about what you&#8217;ve been reading: the <em><a title=\"NetWorker Power Users Guide to nsradmin\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/micromanuals.html\" target=\"_blank\">NetWorker Power Users Guide to nsradmin<\/a><\/em>. The number of downloads has been staggering \u2013 far more than I hoped for, and I hope like the main blog, the guide proves useful to many a NetWorker administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? 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