Tuesday, February 25, 2014

This neglected blog

So it has been a while since I have posted anything.  I actually have several things as drafts that I have never gotten around to finishing because I want them to be useful and meaningful (and contain enough information that I can use them instead of having to recall everything in my brain).

So this post is as much about getting into the habit of posting regularly as much as anything.

A few hints at what has been going on in the lab over the last year.

Software Defined Storage -  by this I mean software implemented storage.  I almost want to call this software defined persistence layer instead but that is not so buzz word compliant.  I've got several experiments here to share.  This has been fun.

OpenStack -  I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about this yet.  There are things I like, things I don't like and a fair amount I either don't have an opinion on or haven't really tested.

Big Data -  I've been playing with VMware's BDE.  I Found a few things I would consider bugs but overall it is working well and was very easy to setup.

Flash Cache - OK, so I have been playing around with using software in a VMware environment as a flash cache.  I've tested several vendors in this space all with differing results.  Overall this is a very interesting space to watch develop.

Hybrid Cloud - so last year involved two trips to Asia for me all centered around how to transform to a hybrid cloud kind of model.  It is really amazing what all I have learned in this area in terms of the reality of a hybrid cloud versus the marketing material.

So those are the things I intend to write about.  I am also hoping to finish some of the draft post which are much more about performance tuning and troubleshooting.



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