Podcast 8: Symantec Application HA, VirtualStore, and NetBackup 7
This week’s Tech Field Day roundtable discussion is an audio chat on the subject of Symantec’s VMworld-related announcements. This discussion occurred prior to the official announcement of these three...
View ArticlePodcast 9: Compellent Roundtable at Tech Field Day
This roundtable discussion focusing on storage maker Compellent is taken from Tech Field Day Seattle, held in July of 2010. The delegates dive into the topic of enterprise storage, reacting to...
View ArticleI Love the VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin comments: Most things in my life that I think are good & excellent are things I started out being very critical of, or at the least greatly disliking. Some of my...
View ArticleNutanix OS 3.5: Deduplication, New GUI, SRM, Hyper-V Support
Bob Plankers writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: Nutanix, one of the fastest growing IT infrastructure startups around, shows no signs of slowing down with their release of Nutanix OS...
View ArticleCoho Data
Bob Plankers The Lone Sysadmin comments: For both personal and technical reasons I’ve always liked the Isilon products, and they’ve done some great work contributing back to the FreeBSD codebase &...
View ArticleAccount for the Bandwidth-Delay Product with Larger Network Buffers
Bob Plankers at The Lone Sysadmin comments: This is post #14 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” At...
View ArticleOpenstack, Lock-In, Support Costs, and Open Source Free Lunches
After Bob Plankers got a lot of response on his first blogpost, he’ll discuss some of the points made with these comments and discussions. “*You* control your destiny with open source solutions and...
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