Author Archives: Gabriel

Epic Facepalm: MS Azure Storage Cloud Down

How an oversight of this magnitude appears for what I would consider is a mission critical platform like Cloud Storage is beyond my basic comprehension. It will be interesting to see what the blow back will be and how the Technology Press … Continue reading

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I am your technical resource on the sales team.

I am here to do lots of things that I’ve never done before. Roughly ten months into the embrace of the “Dark Side” and it’s time for a bit of a brain dump. I’m heading into my first Sales Kick … Continue reading

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TechCrunch seems a little fixated on something

Hmmm I wonder what it could be? I’m pretty sure  nearly everyone of those “articles” could be combined into one decent article that discussed the Apple earnings report, but then there would be 20 out of work “writers” clogging up … Continue reading

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Patent Law: EMC vs Zerto, sometimes it’s “personal”

It seems like the last few years  have seen a plethora of lawsuits between major players against smaller competitors who have started to encroach upon their business. I have written about Symantec vs Veeam/Acronis in the past and I continue … Continue reading

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Life Imitates Facebook

File under Facepalm/Epic Fail on my part.  

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ATWT: Around the Web Today

Just some random musing found today: Chris Evans: Storage QoS – How hard can it be? Apparently hard, and no SSD’s will not fix everything. Got mad Vmware skillz? Live in Phoenix, AZ? Hey look a job. The last people … Continue reading

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I took a vacation and forgot to read stuff

Fun fact: this was the first holiday period I have didn’t have to work through in probably the last 12 years. Vacation or Holiday downtime in the past has consisted of me carrying my phone and laptop around with me … Continue reading

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Tech Reporting Should Be Better

My RSS feed has a lot of technology reporting sites in it. I keep most of the feeds segmented into groups like Virtualization, Storage, etc. The interesting thing in doing it that way is that you get to see a lot of … Continue reading

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FUD WARS – Educational Benefits

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) have a long history of being deployed as a weapon of choice in the vendor space. I think we have all seen our fair share of mud flinging either in good sporting gest, or in … Continue reading

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Yes more Veeam Holiday Goodness Giveaways

Full disclosure, I have many friends who work at Veeam, I have also been a guest of theirs as a customer reference in 2011. That said, I’ve written a bit about Veeam in the past on this blog. I’ve also … Continue reading

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