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TFD11 Introduction CloudPhysics

This is a preparation blog post before I travel to Boston for Tech Field Day 11. You can find more information about Tech Field Day, the other presenters, and the other delegates here on the TFD website. Disclosure: TFD are … Continue reading

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TFD11 Introduction Plexxi

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TFD11 Introduction Actifio

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Make VMUG Great Again

Recently I spent a little over a week taking part in the VMUG user conferences, Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. I spent some of my time reflecting on the role of commercial organizations in community. There is a fairly well known … Continue reading

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My Craft of Writing

My work has changed a lot over the last couple of years. I am no longer in front of a class teaching courses that are provided to me. Since 2015, my main work is writing, producing blog posts, analytical articles … Continue reading

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Datto in the house

A little while ago I wrote about Datto and their cloud-enabled backup system. I said at the time that I was interested in trying out the solution in my lab. I was fortunate enough to be sent a unit to … Continue reading

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Great Things Happen, Sometimes

If you spend enough time traveling, you get to see some amazing things. Unfortunately, you also get to miss some amazing things. Next month is the first Asia Pacific Podcast Conference in Auckland. The conference is aimed at serious podcasters … Continue reading

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Yestoday is Here to Stay

This weekend I started my first log haul trip of the year. A week in Boston with SimpliVity and the VTUG Winter Warmer. As you probably know, travel allows lots of idle time to think. One of the things I … Continue reading

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Videos of SimpliVity platform

I haven’t mentioned my other site, Notes4Engineers for quite a while. Partly because I haven’t posted anything there for nearly a year. I have a few videos that I made with SimpliVity that cover some of teh ways that hardware … Continue reading

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Clone a VM without any IO. Curiouser and curiouser!

I’ve written quite a bit about deduplicated storage for VMs over the last few months. It’s almost the only thing I’ve written about here. So far I have mostly talked in general about dedupe and its impact on VM storage. … Continue reading

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