Seen that? - Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks

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Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks On Storage

Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks. - DaveBlog A Sun employee, an EMC employee and a NetApp employee are all at the funeral of a mutual friend. The Sun employee says, "We have a tradition at Sun. If someone dies, we put ten dollars into their coffin," and he drops in a ten dollar bill. The EMC employee says, "At EMC our tradition is to put $100 in their coffin," and he [...] Read More


An introduction to thin provisioning On Storage

An introduction to thin provisioning: One of the more important but often misunderstood advancements within data storage is thin provisioning. This article defines and discusses thin provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. A great introduction to a concept that I've not previously seen examined - Just In Time enterprise-wide storage capacity planning. [...] Read More


ZFS and Thin Provisioning On Storage

ZFS and Thin Provisioning: I'm really liking the sound of ZFS for a few things we have coming up at work - not sure how well it will fit in with whatever technology mix we're going to get inflicted on us, but still... interesting. [...] Read More


Write a Book, Write Online, Take the Chance The Social Networking Weblog

Fellow blogger Adrienne Zurub has written a book. It's only been out a few months but it's already been sold out on Amazon. Congratulations Adrienne! The sad part about her book coming out is that she was promptly fired from her offline job as a nurse. It could be because she talks about her job in the book. She described how doctors treat nurses and talks about some of the [...] Read More


True Hires ex-Bush Aide to Seek Safety Checks The Dating Weblog

PALM BEACH POST -- Apr 16 -- True has hired a well-connected lobbyist from Tampa --- former Secretary of the Department of Management Services Cynthia Henderson --- to push the background checks measure. True routinely rejects 5% of possible daters identified as felons. Rapsheetsasserts that the checks are derived from 17 different public records sources but the DOC database hasn't been updated since August, and rapsheets.com searches only 16 of the state's 67 counties. [...] Read More