Sam Zaydel, Author at RackTop BrickStor Security Platform

July 22, 2015

How Not to Evaluate Storage

Over the years it has become clear to me that most people do not do a good job of evaluating shared storage systems, whether a SAN, big or small, a…

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November 18, 2014

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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November 6, 2014

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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October 18, 2014

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…