Whether we embrace it or not, IT Security organizations have become key players in our organizations over the years. Sometimes they get a bad rap, they have to be come the enforces for various policies and compliance requirements our businesses must adhere to. Audits can be met with enthusiasm or dread, but they aren’t going any place soon. I think much …
Virtualization
When I was a VMware administrator, one of the most crucial decisions we made when we deployed a new virtual machine was which datastore it resided on. We tried to stick to a naming convention that told us if we were using FC disks or SATA disks (we had some not so nice names for …
Many of us remember when virtualization was in its infancy, when we didn’t have features like high availability to protect against hardware failures, and live migration to move a virtual server off of the host it resided on for maintenance. Back then, the benefits were all about reduced power and cooling requirements, and using less …
We keep hearing about OpenStack, but what exactly are we talking about? It’s not an apples to apples comparison to anything else in technology which can make it difficult to understand for some. OpenStack is one of those sort of nebulous (see what I did there?) things many people know about, but not everyone may understand. Or people …
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …
Shortly after joining NetApp, I started becoming much more active on Twitter, more specifically following people active in the virtualization and storage spaces. I’ve met a ton of fantastic, intelligent, helpful people, and I’m glad to have become a part of the community. I could go on and on, but that’s another post! Last year, …