Somewhere along the line, someone decided to put a “Sec” in between “Dev” and “Ops”… and now it is a thing! I have historically reacted poorly to the xOps labels that have been flung around IT circles for a number of years now, but the reality is that a lot of these previous silos are […] Read More
Storage has always been tough. As I have mentioned before, I bare many scars of storage platforms gone bad. To be fair, I exited out of the infrastructure game in terms of being hands on managing production storage since joining Veeam and with that, I feel like I missed out on having better experiences with […] Read More
Kubernetes can pose a steep learning curve for those coming from a more traditional infrastructure background. Its adoption is growing as we know, and there are a lot of IT Operations practitioners scrambling to get up to speed with the container management and control plane platform. The success of the public cloud Kubernetes services on […] Read More
Bitcoin has had quite the ride so far in 2021! Many thought it had had its run by late 2017, early 2018. While there is still a huge element of scepticism in crypto currencies, the fact remains that it has been the single best investment opportunity of the past decade. Those brave enough or with […] Read More
One of the positive things to come out of 2020 for me was the launch of Great Things with Great Tech. This was something that I had been thinking about for a long time and 2020 gave me the opportunity to pivot on my original idea and take advantage of the Podcast explosion as well […] Read More
I’ve always had an affinity with storage systems… that all started back at my first role with a three rack HPE Storage Area Network system that was cream coloured, big and slow… and when it crashed and burned it really crashed and burned. Since then I’ve dealt with all sorts of storage design and implementations… […] Read More
I think it would be a very brave person to claim that Kubernetes, Docker or containers in general was straight forward. There is intrinsic complexity that comes with a containerization and this is no better proven in the increasing ecosystem of management platforms for Kubernetes such as Project Pacific from VMware and others that are […] Read More