Why can’t I just use RAID 10 for everything?
In a perfect work, you would use RAID 10 for everything. However we don’t work in the perfect world, we have budgets to deal with. And these budgets mean that we have to make sacrifices at times so we don’t get what we want. RAID 10 is very expensive to implement, much more so per […]
Expanding local storage with minimal downtime
Welcome to the first day of storage week of SQL University. Over the next week, we’ll be covering some different topics, at different levels, but hopefully the information is useful to everyone. One of the big reasons that companies pay for storage arrays is that when it comes to expanding storage (LUNs) you can do […]
Sign up for the LA to Phoenix Code Camp bus
Something which was talked about at the last SoCal Code Camp was running a bus from SoCal to Phoenix to help our two communities get to know each other better, and to give speakers and attendees easier access to more events. So along those lines a bus has been setup taking people from SoCal to […]
Free online classes “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professions”
Microsoft is putting on a great free three day online class for VMware professionals that need to learn more about Hyper-V. Day 1 will focus on “Platform” (Hyper-V, virtualization architecture, high availability & clustering) Day 2 will focus on “Management” (System Center Suite, SCVMM 2012 Beta, Opalis, Private Cloud solutions) Day 3 will focus on […]