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2014

Man the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)
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Man the Equipment or Equip the Man (or Woman)

In my days as an IT manager there were times that operators and admins effectively had to be near or around the system to keep it working. When we fielded…

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500 380 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
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BrickstorOS Engineering Series: Packages Take Too Much Time

In the last post I talked about complexity of package management, the fact that there are a multitude of packaging systems already and one does not rule them all. The…

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150 150 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
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BrickstorOS Engineering Series: We Don’t Need No Stinking Packages

For a while now I wanted to begin writing a series of posts on the subject of RackTop's BrickstorOS, specifically various design philosophies, engineering choices we made, things that we…

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150 150 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
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Advertised IOP Numbers Are Not Indicators Of Actual Work Capacity

One thing that seems invariable is that all vendors flaunt IO numbers, in some cases numbers that are almost impossible to believe, out to prospective customers. As customers though, we…

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150 150 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
Cyber News

Intercloud? Um…We Have That

I'm not one to compare myself to others, or worry about what anyone else is doing. When I was much younger just entering the business world a mentor taught me…

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150 150 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
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The Right Cloud Architecture, Hardware, and Operations Plan

Several days ago a cloud provider in Australia, Dimension Data, had an outage lasting over 24 hours that was deemed to have been caused by multiple issues with their EMC storage. It's…

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150 150 RackTop BrickStor Security Platform
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