As I mentioned in my post last week I recently had the opportunity to attend Storage Field Day 19, where I got to meet with a wide variety of storage software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley. One of the more interesting companies we met with was a longtime player in storage—Western Digital. (Disclosure—I own […]
Last week I got to spend some time meeting with numerous storage companies in Silicon Valley. I along with another dozen or so delegates met with companies large and small, including Western Digital, Dell EMC, NetApp, and startups like MinIO. I’ll be writing posts in coming weeks to talk about some of the interesting technology […]
I’m doing another precon at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 20th, 2020. The event is at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. This time we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into Azure. While last years precon focused on basic infrastructure skills in Azure, this time we’re going to focus a little deeper into the […]
I’ve posted about ransomware a few times before. At DCAC, we’ve worked with a few customers who’ve fortunately been able to help them recover from their attacks. But ransomware attacks are trending upward, as seen below–there’s a ransomware attacker that has pulled in $10 million dollars this year (this year being so far in 2020. […]
We have a customer who is moving platforms, and as part of this, I’ve been tasked with testing a lot of various storage configurations. This means lots of utilization of DiskSpd, which is a disk performance benchmarking tool from Microsoft. We could argue about the value of synthetic disk benchmarks, but they are good for […]
I was at Microsoft Ignite last week, and I spent the better of part of 3 days working in the “SQL Server” booth. I put SQL Server in quotes, because in 2019 that term is stretched. Our booth covered SQL Server 2019, Arc (which you should read about because it’s really cool, but is the […]
A good policy in your technology career, or life in general, is to, to quote a former president, “don’t do stupid shit”. If we look historically at major IT outages or data breaches, there’s always some universal tenants–some piece of critical infrastructure was left completely unsecured, or someone put the private keys on Github. In […]
Yesterday, GigaOm published a benchmark of Azure SQL Database as compared to Amazon’s RDS service. It’s an interesting test case that tries to compare the performance of these platform as a service database offerings. One of the many challenges of this kind of a study is that the product offerings are not exactly analogous. However, […]
As I mentioned, I was in Silicon Valley a couple of weeks ago for an analyst event, and got to meet with a variety of the companies. The final company we met with on Friday, was Solo.io, and I have to say they knocked it out of the park. Their technology was super interesting and […]
I was recently in Silicon Valley for Cloud Field Day 6, and one of the companies we met with with HashiCorp. HashiCorp is known mostly for two key products in cloud automation–Terraform and Vault which enable cloud automation, and secrets management respectively. Both of these are open source projects, which have support and premium feature […]