Mike Stump of the #eager0 comments: A complex system of PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts manages the virtual machine lifecycle here. The scripts are remarkable in their implementation, and for years have been humming along just fine without much modification, even though the creator left two years ago. Recent changes to the environment, however, caused portions […]
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The Battle For Your Data Center’s Brain
This is post 8 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” The complex ecosystem of symbiotic, technologic, silicon-based organisms that is your datacenter: it’s the epicenter for your business, your mission, and your interactions with the world. Your applications, your data, your infrastructure, and a non-trivial amount of your capital, all end […]
Minecraft and Microsoft
Mike Stump of the #eager0 comments: Last fall, Microsoft acquired Mojang, the Swedish company that developed Minecraft, for a smooth $2.5 billion. Reactions to this news fell into one of two possible categories1: WTF is Mojang / Minecraft? Microsoft has lost its goddamned mind. These are reasonable responses. Because we couldn’t see what Microsoft could […]
Data Is A Four-Letter Word
This is post 5 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” It’s no coincidence that data is a four letter word. And it’s a word that holds different meaning depending on your place in the organizational chart. Managers interpret data to mean things like budgets, schedules, and white papers. To counsel, data […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Storage
This is post 2 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” Thanks to a deluge of storage marketing in the last year or two, we have adopted the opinion that flash storage will push spinning disks out of the data center. We even picked up on the term “spinning rust” and “mechanical […]
Perceived Security & The Home Depot
Michael Stump of The #eager0 comments: Lots of posts and tweets and chats about perception lately. Frank Denneman asked if people still perceived a single chassis as a risk and sparked a Twitter discussion that I was ill-prepared for at 5:00am my time. I wrote about seeming vs. being in my post about Hamlet and Coffee […]
How to Suppress Those Awful Ask.com Options When Installing Java
the #eager0 comments: I only deal with Java these days because my kids play Minecraft. A lot. Not as much as this dude, but still. And since Java receives security patches on a frequent basis (we’ll call it weekly, and we won’t be far off), I spend time updating Java more often than I’d like. […]
Dr. Vint Cerf’s Keynote Address at the HHS IPv6 Symposium
Michael Stump of the #eager0 comments: ICYMI: Dr. Vint Cerf delivered a keynote address to the HHS IPv6 Symposium at the National Library of Medicine at NIH this morning. Dr. Cerf’s contributions to the Internet are nearly unbelievable: he co-created TCP/IP, and can get away with saying things like, “When I turned the Internet on […]
UCS M-Series: The Server, Deconstructed
Michael Stump of the #eager0 comments: Last week, I attended the Cisco #UCSGrandSlam product launch in NYC as a member of the Tech Field Day delegation. I’m sure you followed the excitement on social media; the @CiscoDC team really knows how to promote their events! And you’ve likely read some great blog posts from some […]
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Michael Stump of The #eager0 comments: You’d have undoubtably discovered the phrase “post hoc ergo propter hoc.” And you’d use those words every day in your IT career. It means, “after this, therefore because of this.” It’s a logical fallacy (which means it’s a great way to pepper your conversation at hipster dinner parties) that […]