Virtualization is the art of creating an abstraction layer between the physical constraints of infrastructure while maintaining an equal or better end-user experience. The abstraction layer provides greater flexibility for companies in order to adapt to changing market situations, new IT service requirements, regulatory compliance, budget cuts and other challenges. So therefore the virtualization technology [...]
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What virtualization technology to focus on?
Posted in My two cents, Services, Storage, tagged grid, SAN, Storage, virtualization on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Data in the clouds and storage grids
Posted in My two cents, Services, Storage, tagged capacity, cloud, fc, grid, iscsi, SAN, Storage on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not too long ago I wrote a small piece for a forum describing view on grid storage. I liked so now I am posting it here as well. Enjoy! Capacity and performance Grids can scale to incredibly large capacities as each storage node normally will add more resources to both capacity and computational power. Other [...]
My new mac; converged me?
Posted in My two cents, tagged Apple, Mac, shell, UNIX on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got myself a new MacBook and it is absolutely fantastic! My trusty old 12″ PowerBook is long overdue for retirement. Even though it is only six years for the past year and a half it have had a DVD stuck in the drive and to be honest the PowerPC just doesn’t deliver the [...]
UNIX tribes
Posted in My two cents, Zen of IT, tagged AIX, funny, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, UNIX on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Having worked in many different environments I have come into contact with many different administrators. Not being one to stereotype people… well, what can I say. Here are my BOFH stereotypes. Firstly those who loves UNIX. Those are the xBSD, AIX and HP-UX ‘triebes’. Very efficient folks who gets the work done with ingenious shell [...]