There are literally hundreds upon thousands of resources for information and learning in the technology ecosystem. That is an understatement really, but my point is that we have an incredible amount of great technical information being shared for all to see. What we do have a challenge with sometimes is separating the wheat from the chaff with technical information. By …
Toronto VMUG 11/13 recap: Nutanix, CiRBA and vCO with Mike Preston
It was a chilly day, but we were kept warm among the awesome VMUG community today at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As our last half-day session for 2013, this was a nice way to wind down a spectacular year and once again Angelo Luciani (@AngeloLuciani) let our team and produced a great lineup of technology and people. The sessions were …
DiscoPosse Review: MySQL Troubleshooting
This book could easily be called “Everything you wanted to know about MySQL, but were afraid to ask”. I’ve seldom seen this much deeply documented troubleshooting and tips in one book. Kudos to O’Reilly and Sveta Smirnova on this book. It is now an invaluable member of my bookshelf and referenced often. The book is nicely divided up among topics …
What do IOPs and Bandwidth have in common?
In an ever evolving world of networking, storage and computing in general, we are being bombarded by information which is meant to lead us towards finding the “best” product or feature that are out there. Vendors are often parading infographics and statistics in front of us to give us the “obvious” benefits of their product versus their competitors, or our …