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Gestalt Cloud News 17.8

In this iteration of Gestalt Cloud News:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses why cloud lock-in might not be that bad
– The Gestalt IT Rundown discusses recent announcements from AWS
– Tom Hollingsworth brreaks down why Mr. Scott isn’t DevOps

James Green – IT Origins

James Green takes his turn in the IT Origins hot seat. He reveals how he got started in IT (a career slightly delayed thanks to girls, beer, and video games), what he’s reading, how caffeine changed his life, and what tools he uses to stay organized.

Technical Debt in the Age of AI

Technical debt is more than the cost of not adopting a new technology. Dr. Rachel Traylor points out that it can also be the cost of hastily adopting a new technology without considering how it will fit into your bigger strategy.

Virtualization and Containers: The On-Premise IT Roundtable 4

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In the light of the vSphere 6.5 release, moderator Stephen Foskett asks the roundtable about the impact of VMware integrated containers. This runs on Photon OS , a lightweight Linux distribution that runs a single container. What is the impact of this integration, in terms of security, training, and administration? And more importantly, does the industry need vSphere butting into the container space?

The Maritime Future of IT?

James Green reviews how the application level segmentation from Aporeto’s Trireme project can help you deal with security in the post-cloud world.

State of the Industry: Container Storage

If hype was something that had mass, containers would affect the tides. In this State of the Industry, we look at the state of container storage. Various companies will tell you it’s broken. We’ve consulted with experts to find out what the specific issues are, and what the future will look like.

The Silent Threat of Dark Data

Secondary storage sounds safe enough, but James Green brings to light the salient problem of dark data. Just so it’s understood, let’s define secondary storage as anything that isn’t considered mission critical for your business on a day to day level. Most of this would include backups, but it also could include archival data, test/dev, […]

Have We Really Outgrown RAID?

James Green writing for ActualTech.io comments: The industry has been talking about this for a few years now, but it’s becoming a real and present concern. RAID protection schemes have been used for a long time to protect data, either by mirroring the same data across redundant drives or by calculating parity across a collection […]

Disaggregated Physical Storage Architectures and Hyperconvergence

James Green of Actual Tech Media comments: In the data center, technology advances in distinct steps rather than smoothly along a continuum. One day we don’t have SSDs, and the next, the first SSD is generally available and we do. Market adoption, however, smooths out those distinct steps into what looks more like a gradually sloping […]