Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
As a matter of course, I deal with all kinds of IT manager types during the course of a campaign.
Sometimes said managers are well-versed in technology. Other times they have biases, are bigoted, and so on. Which is fine, I’m more opinionated, cranky and obnoxious than most.
Been a while since I posted anything – there’s a TON of material but some of us actually do more than blog, it’s quarter/year end, and I barely have time to go to the bathroom…
Continue reading “Cinebench benchmarks – performance comparison between Vista 64 and Mac OS X”
So I’m now the proud owner of a tricked-out 2.8GHz MBP.
Naturally I’ve been tinkering with it already (only had it for 2 days). I’ve disabled swapfile encryption, for instance, and I think it makes it have teh snappy.
Based on some recent experiences I wanted to make people aware of some caveats with setting up a VTL with deduplication. This is specifically regarding the EMC DL3D (AKA Quantum DXi) but applies to all of them. This will be a mercifully short and to the point post. Here’s the rub:
Continue reading “A word of caution when setting up a deduplicating VTL”
Maybe the longest title for a post ever. And one of my longest, most rambling posts ever, it seems.
Recently we did a demo for a customer that I thought opened an interesting can of worms. Let’s set the stage – and, BTW, let it be known that I lost my train of thought multiple times writing this over multiple days so it may seem a bit incoherent (unusually, it wasn’t written in one shot).