Growing Beyond Your First Storage System
06/20/18 At some point, your first storage system will be “full.” I’m writing it as “full” because the system might not actually be 100% occupied with data at that exact point in t…
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Jon Klaus
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When is a Storage System Full?
06/18/18 When designing the underlying storage infrastructure for a set of applications, several metrics are important. First, there’s capacity. How much storage do you need? This …
Software Updates in the IT Stack: (Not) a Game of Jenga
06/14/18 In my last post, I talked about upgrading storage systems. More specifically, how to determine the right upgrade interval for your storage systems. What the previous post …
Paving the Road to Your Storage System
06/13/18 A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data that you just stored? You need to co…
The Software Arms Race: Do You Even Upgrade?
06/11/18 After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in t…