While it’s good to have good backups, most system admins would like to know just exactly what the consequences of component failure mean for their uptime/downtime/workload scenario. In other words, how big a job will it be to get the server back on line if something falls over.
So let’s look at how the storage subsystem […]

There seem to be two types of speed-freaks in the storage world … streaming (video) and database afficionados. I thought I’d point out a few issues that the database lads should think about when setting up their systems.
There are a couple of issues where database differs from streaming … firstly in drive type. If you […]

(I’ve been away from the keyboard for a while, and needed to get the fingers working again, so I’ve stayed away from anything new we are doing so as not to upset the marketing lads any more than usual and have gone for something simple to get the hang of this again )
There are […]