Trevor Pott
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Leduc County, AB, Canada
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The shifting SANs of enterprise IT: You may have been burned in the past, but live migration is and will be your friend
You got hurt, we get it. But you can't ignore your data-center's workhorse → Read More
Extract, transform, load? More like extremely tough to load, amirite?
Thankfully, now there are data integration platforms for that → Read More
The science of business continuity: The next storage generation
Opinion There is a concept in biology known as r/K selection theory. An r-strategist produces lots of offspring, but is only able to invest a small amount in rearing each offspring. K-strategists produce far fewer offspring, but as a result are able to invest a great deal more into each. K-selection requires that the parent(s) provide for their offspring for a much longer period of time. This… → Read More
VMs: Imperfect answers to imperfect problems, but they're all we have
Are you a virtualization hater? → Read More
Container orchestration top trumps: Let's just pretend you don't use Kubernetes already
Open source or Hotel California, there's something for everyone → Read More
Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take
Workload isolation is niche, but they're rather good at it → Read More
You can't ignore Spectre. Look, it's pressing its nose against your screen
Strap yourself in, this ride won't be over for a long time yet → Read More
Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly
What exactly is "serverless"? Like many popular technology terms, the exact definition of serverless is increasingly fluid. Also like many popular technology terms, the fact that the term means different things to different people doesn't sit well in some quarters. I've taken my own stab at defining serverless here on El Reg. This definition has been praised by some, criticized by others. Those… → Read More
Mine all the data, they said. It will be worth your while, they said
Good developers instrument their applications. Good ops teams monitor everything. This near-fetishisation of telemetry has been extended to DevOps, where it now risks becoming something of a problem. It's good to collect data on your applications and your infrastructure. An important part of Doing IT Unstupidly is baselining: gathering a bunch of data that tells you how things behave when they… → Read More
Microservices 101
Supported Public cloud providers increasingly differentiate themselves through the features and services they provide. These run from basic storage or content delivery network up to sophisticated flavours of data analysis and increasingly Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). For the most part, these services are not offered on-prem. To take advantage of them, some portion of… → Read More
No humans allowed: How would a machine-centric data centre look?
This isn't a sci-fi premise, it'll influence how we segment our kit a few years down the line → Read More
C'mon, edgelords: The APIs are ours to command – do we do good or evil?
Edge computing is the pendulum swinging away from the idea of big, centralised servers back to distributed systems. It's the idea that instead of centralising all of our workloads in big clouds we bring the computing closer to the devices requesting that compute power. The idea is that edge computing solves whole new classes of workloads for which the latency involved with cloud is just too… → Read More
With microservices Java can at last join us in our cloudy, DevOpsy world
It's how apps are designed, not the tools used to write them → Read More
Google hooks up with Scale for cloud collab?! What does it all mean?
And what will it become? → Read More
It's a small VMworld after all – life in the shadow of re:Invent
VMware's event has become the conference of today's refresh cycle, not tomorrow's → Read More
Welcome to the Rise of the Machine-to-Machine. Isn't it time to 'block off' some data ducts?
Sysadmin blog Do you remember Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and so forth? It's marketing terminology that was popular at the turn of the millennium and was as used and abused as "cloud" is today. Underneath all the fluff, however, were solid and reasoned ideas about how technology would evolve and the benefits they'd bring. To understand where technology is going tomorrow, it's worth looking back at where… → Read More
Sysadmin Day 2017: Still time to get the beers in
70% of IT workers risk burnout: Don't let that be you. Pub. Now! → Read More
Approaches to building the enterprise cloud
Sysadmin blog Data center technologies are constantly evolving, displacing their predecessors. Data center storage, and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) in particular, make for a good example. HCI has been around for almost a decade. We're well along the hype cycle. We've seen outlandish marketing claims, watched vendors IPO and be acquired. We've read the promises and the FUD. After all of… → Read More
What does an enterprise cloud look like?
Sysadmin blog In late 2014 I wrote about Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). I revisited this early last year. This year I expect the first mainstream SDI blocks to emerge, likely under the moniker "Enterprise Cloud". So what does the enterprise cloud of 2017 look like? A number of players are entering, or have already entered the turnkey cloud market. "Push button, receive bacon" on-premises… → Read More
Hyperconverged infrastructure. It's all about the services
Sysadmin blog Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) isn't a product, it's a feature. The future lies in turnkey cloud solutions. This means that there are certain IT services HCI vendors need to bring to the table to remain relevant. At its most basic, HCI is virtualization + storage. You take hard drives, put them into servers and put a hypervisor on top. Something, either integrated into the… → Read More