mbleib

As I said, Ray's Principles were really difficult to endure. It was hugely effective, but so very stressful.

Certainly "more, faster, with less" has been a mantra of the industry for as long as we've been here and likely much longer. Thanks unlikel to change any time soon. As we move toward greater elegance in tech, we must remain adaptable.

This is the trap. Expediency at the expense of expertise promotes marginal outcomes. I do think that having your server/storage person working on your network is likely more dangerous, btw.

This is quite interesting. I do try consistently to give thought to who my audience is, and not overload them with vocabulary that's not jargony, or even too flowery. So, this kind of validation is really helpful to me. Once again, thank you.

Knowing about these things will be more and more crucial moving forward. SDN particularly, is destined to change the landscape of networking. Whether the choice is OpenFlow, ACI, or NSX, the reduction of reliance on physical ports, and the far more granular concept of micro-segmentation is so very important. SDN does…

And you're illustrating a point, JFrazier, I believe is crucial... DR and Backup are really two distinct components of a whole picture. In your case, and in the case of any well thought-out environment, they interact as parts of a whole. However, while thought of together, they are different. I had an experience with an…

This is not to say that there is only one tool for the problem, but more there are better and there are worse. It's also a case in which understanding the differences, basing those tools on your own abilities, and bridging the gap dictated by the learning curve are all factors that enter into the choice of which phillips…

This is a comment I made at the very beginning of the posting. A true misnomer.