Last week I took part in a special Infosmack recording at the HDS Bloggers’ Day. You can find a link to the recording here, via The Register;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/hds_storage_virtualisation_podcast/
Unfortunately we still didn’t have the Hu v Claus benchpress competiton, but hey….
In this picture are:
Greg [...]
Continue Reading This Post →If you weren’t already aware, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 includes an iSNS (Internet Storage Name Service) as a standard feature. You can install it by starting up Server Manager and clicking on the “Features” item in the Server Manager tree. From there you can locate “Internet Storage Name Server” and install. See the first screenshot [...]
Continue Reading This Post →As previously mentioned, last week I attended the second HDS/Hitachi Bloggers’ Day, this year located at Sefton Park in the UK. Setting the event on this side of The Pond (rather than requiring me to take a 10,000 mile round-trip) was certainly a benefit and I welcomed the lack of jet [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve been reading a book called “The Mighty Micro” by a namesake of mine, Dr Christopher Evans, a computer scientist from the 1970s, who sadly died at the age of only 48, not long after his book had been published.
I’m currently into the chapter [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In a double whammy, we have two potential storage beers events happening this week.
Tonight (sorry for the late notice), there will be a meetup at the Royal Oak in Windsor from 7pm (Tuesday 22nd), prior to the HDS Bloggers Day taking place Wednesday and Thursday. The pub’s location can be found here:
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This week I’ll be attending the 2nd HDS Bloggers Day, to be hosted in the UK. Apart from myself, there will be the following attendees:
Devang Panchigar – @storagenerve – www.storagenerve.com Greg Knieriemen – @knieriemen – Continue Reading This Post →
Here’s a cautionary tale for those of us who are constantly enveloped in storage and computing in general.
A while back I posted on Twitter how I was listening to the “click of death” from one of my home lab storage arrays. I have 21 HDDs within 6 feet of my office desk and one [...]
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