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My sneaky colleagues announced the new Rubrik CDM release, codenamed Andes 5.1, while I was on PTO so I’m a couple of days late with this post but still wanted to provide an overview of the new features and function highlights and show you what is coming down the line.... [Read More]

With the recent announcement of the Google Cloud VMware Solution you now have the possibility to run a VMware stack on each of the 3 major hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP. In this post I wanted to compare and contrast the 3 solutions, but before we do that let’s discuss... [Read More]

Microsoft Azure provides very compelling cloud storage services, Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects (Blob), a file system service for the cloud (Files), a messaging store for reliable messaging (Queues), and a NoSQL store (Tables). Consuming these services from within the public cloud is pretty... [Read More]

Rubrik and NetApp recently announced support for NetApp StorageGRID as an Archive target. Some things, like bacon and eggs, are just better together which is what I wanted to focus on in this blogpost. Additionally I wanted to provide some background and a deeper look at the NetApp StorageGRID solution.... [Read More]

I often find myself watching and rewatching documentaries related to my field(s) of interest, mainly the IT industry, and (computer) science in general. I find that doing so provides a certain inspiration to start tinkering with something new, or often times just to keep pushing. I’ve compiled a list of... [Read More]