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Pets vs. Poultry in Your Application

Alastair Cooke makes the case for changing the metaphor “Pets vs. Cattle’ to “Pets vs. Poultry” to be more in line with what we experience today. 

Pure Accelerates with Direct Memory Module

IT Consultant, Alastair Cooke, discusses the new tier of storage for the FlashArray//X, Direct Memory Module, which was announced during Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019.

Pure Flash Array//C Returns to the Beginning

IT Consultant and Writer, Alastair Cooke, attended Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 and here he shares a review of the capacity and performance of Pure Storage’s new array series.

The Cloud Should Adapt to the Enterprise – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

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It would be great if all our applications were cloud native to get the best cost, resilency, and architecture overall. But enterprises don’t move that quickly. The cloud should offer services that work for existing applications that organizations want to get out of the data center but aren’t going to refactor any time soon. The roundtable discusses the merits and why this isn’t happening right now.

Alastair Cooke – IT Origins

This week on IT Origins, we spoke to Alastair Cooke. In the interview, we learn how Alastair got his start in IT via Novell Netware, some insight into the early days of the New Zealand Internet, and where he hopes to see the IT industry going in the next few years.

A brand new Violin Memory

Alastair Cooke of Demitasse comments: Tech Field Day can be an interesting event, not just from the technology side. One of the early questions for Violin Memory was basically: How are you still in business? The answer was that they still have cash and are selling product. The core of their presentation is that this is not the […]

Hyperwashing: What Makes a Solution Hyperconverged?

Alastair Cooke writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: Whenever an innovation or buzzword gets popular, it is natural for marketing to pile on and apply the word to products. We are starting to see “hyperconverged” achieve this sort of recognition. Early hyperconverged vendors built their solutions from the beginning to be hyperconverged and deliver a […]

Hyperconverged like you just don’t care

Alastair Cook of Demitasse writes: Living in a small city, in a small country, I see a lot of small businesses. These customers will never have a virtualisation specialist on their staff, they barely have an IT specialist. These same customers find that their IT needs have grown beyond a single Windows server and some desktops. Some sort of […]

Learning Moments—HA didn’t work

Alastair Cooke of Demitasse comments: This learning moment came from a health check that I did with a client. They had a small VMware estate with only three ESX servers and a small SAN. They asked for a health check because they had been let down by VMware High Availability (HA) when one of their […]