EMC’s ScaleIO vs VMWare’s VSAN
VSAN is a hot topic today! Without getting into the weeds, I want to briefly describe the similarities between these two technologies and how they can help enable your IT department followed by their...
View ArticleNimble and the Hybrid/Flash Array Market.
First and foremost, I would like to welcome Nimble to the public market and thank them. I attribute their successful entrance with the bump in the entire tech stock sphere and the increased awareness...
View ArticleNSA and the US Cloud Industry
Following the news around the NSA can be depressing. Speculating on the future often leads down a pessimistic hole. I want to share the light at the end of the tunnel I have seen. As you may be able...
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Coursera: A Survival Guide
It was the first week of the new year and in the spirit of resolutions and new beginnings, I wrote down my all my goals I could think of. After some refining, one of my goals was to take an online...
View ArticleWorking with Windows 8 — The Quick Guide to Making it Usable
I recently bought a new laptop that came stock with Windows 8. I heard rumblings that “Windows 8 sucks” and that it is unusable. The same could be said about any OS by someone who isn’t comfortable....
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Standing on the Edge of the Unknown
Tomorrow, I start working for Amazon Web Services! In order to put my excitement in context, it’s important to know where I’m coming from and where I’m looking to go. Five years ago, I started working...
View ArticleLambda 101 – Serverless Business Logic
I’ll keep this post short and let the video do the talking. This twelve minute video will walk through three different Lambda examples and investigate the payloads of each. The goal is to get...
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A Few CloudTrail Best Practices
There are many tools out there to help monitor and alert on AWS accounts, both native and third-party. Across every tool I have tested, one alert is always critical and it’s so easy to fix that there...
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