Category Archives: General

Vendor Briefing: Datrium DRaaS Connect

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Alastair

I really like the architecture of the Datrium DVX platform. Large (cost-effective) NVMe SSDs inside ESXi hosts provide impressive storage performance, and one or more shared disk shelves provides data persistence and protection. If you remember Pernix Data’s idea of separating performance … Continue reading →

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Managing Cohesity with a RaspberryPi and Python

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Alastair

This week I was looking at the Cohesity Developer portal again and decided to see what was on GitHub. One of the repositories that Cohesity has is the Cohesity Management SDK for Python, which got me thinking. Python is a … Continue reading →

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Pets Vs. Poultry in Your Application

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Alastair

It has been a while since the phrase “Pets versus Cattle” was on the top of the conversational pile, but I think that it is a useful tool for approaching application architecture. Originally the phrase referred to on-premises enterprise IT … Continue reading →

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Cohesity Data Migration in Action

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Alastair

One of the new features in the Cohesity Data Platform version 6.4 is called Data Migration and is part of the Smart Files function. Data Migration automates moving files from a file share to the Cohesity platform and leaving a … Continue reading →

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Cohesity Relieves NAS Space Stress

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Alastair

File servers (or NAS) with disks that fill up are a constant problem in any organization. Twenty years ago, I spent more than a few weekends swapping to larger hard drives in physical file servers. Now that those file servers … Continue reading →

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Vendor Briefing: BlueCat Networks

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Alastair

We tend not to think a lot about some of the most fundamental IT infrastructure services, yet they come up a lot when we are troubleshooting problems. One rule of thumb is that when it is an application networking problem … Continue reading →

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Reporting using the Cohesity ReST API

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Alastair

I mentioned the Cohesity REST API when I looked at the developer portal, now I’d like to show you a little about how to access that API and gather information from your Cohesity clusters. For my example I am going … Continue reading →

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Pure Cloud Block Store Available on AWS

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Alastair

One of the fun elements of being briefed about a product that is not yet released, and probably has not had its form finalized, is that only part of the product is revealed. This week at Pure Accelerate the Pure … Continue reading →

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Developer Enablement, Cohesity Developer Portal

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Alastair

Following on from my quick look at using PowerShell with Cohesity, I want to highlight the developer resources page at developer.cohesity.com. The developer portal has a few useful resources for automation around Cohesity, some detailed documentation of the REST API … Continue reading →

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All-In Public Cloud for Backup

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Alastair

Born in the cloud companies approach problem-solving differently to on-premises software companies, so Druva looks at the world differently to other enterprise backup vendors. One difference is the expectation that infrastructure is rented from cloud providers, rather than purchased from … Continue reading →

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