This page lists blog posts, articles, white papers, podcasts and webinars I’ve written or given. My main blog site is blog.architecting.it (posts aren’t all listed here).
- 31st May 2009 – Infosmack Episode #6
- 6th December 2009 – Infosmack Episode #30
- 17 March 2010 – Implementing SAN Services (Datamation)
- 4 October 2010 – You the Expert (The Register)
- 12 October 2010 – iSCSI implementation: How to design, deploy an iSCSI SAN
- 28 February 2010 – Infosmack Episode #40
- 19 March 2010 – Nigel Poulton’s XIV Deep Dive
- 18 July 2010 – Infosmack Episode #59
- 1 August 2010 – Infosmack Episode #61
- 12 September 2010 – Infosmack Episode #67
- 10 October 2010 – Infosmack Episode #71
- You the Expert (January 2011 – The Register)
- Virtualisation and Storage Overview – Vendor Solutions (February 2011 – Datamation)
- Part Flash, All Flash or Dedicated Flash (May 2011 – The Register)
- Infosmack Episode #92 (March 2011 – Infosmack Podcasts)
- Infosmack Episode #97 (May 2011 – Infosmack Podcasts)
- Infosmack Episode #101 (May 2011 – Infosmack Podcasts)
- Nekkid Tech #3 – Chasing Amazon (October 2011 – Nekkid Tech)
- The Virtual Storage Appliance: Its Evolution and Outlook vs The Array (12 January 2012)
- Hybrid Cloud Storage Product Roundup (26 January 2012)
- Unified Storage Goes Mainstream (March 2012)
- Managing Storage For Virtual Servers (April 2012)
- Server SSD Guide to Form Factors and Implementations (May 2012 – searchstorage.co.uk)
- Server Virtualization and Storage Management: Better Integration, Specialized Tools (July 2012 – searchvirtualstorage.com)
- Speaking in Tech #26 – Podcast (September 2012)
- Data Reduction in Primary Storage (DRIPS) – (October 2012 – searchstorage.com)
- Storage Vendors Address Server SSD Shortcomings ( October 2012 – computerweekly.com)
- Server virtualization and storage management: Better integration, specialized tools (October 2012 – searchvirtualstorage)
- New Windows Server 2012 Storage Features Reviewed by Experts (October 2012 – searchstorage.com)
- It’s not how much storage you have, it’s what you do with it (November 2012 – HP Videocast)
- How to Build Your own Storage Subsystem with Windows 2012 (November 2012 – PCPro)
- VM Storage Efficiency Technologies: Dedupe, Compression, Thin Provisioning (November 2012 – SearchVirtualStorage.com)
- How to build a private storage cloud (SearchCloudStorage, January 2017)
- Get the most value out of your SDS systems by making smart choices (SearchStorage, January 2017)
- Using Containers for Persistent Storage (Network Computing, January 2017)
- Storage plays catch-up with DevOps environment (SearchStorage, March 2017)
- How does deduplication in cloud computing work and is it beneficial? (SearchDataBackup, April 2017)
- Copy data management systems reduce data consumption and storage costs (SearchStorage, April 2017)
- Backup testing: What to test, when to test, how often to test (Computer Weekly, April 2017)
- Can you provide some ransomware dos and don’ts? (SearchDataBackup, April 2017)
- What cybersecurity challenges do backup admins face besides ransomware? (SearchDataBackup, May 2017)
- Cloud data portability: Obstacles to it and how to achieve it (Computer Weekly, May 2017)
- NVMe flash storage: What are the deployment options? (Computer Weekly, June 2017)
- GDPR brings serious implications for data storage (Computer Weekly, July 2017)
- Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part One (Storage Unpacked, January 2017)
- Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part Two (Storage Unpacked, January 2017)
- Garbage Collection #004 – Dell EMC World Preview, DockerCon 2017 and The Return of Violin Memory (Storage Unpacked, May 2017)
- Soundbytes #008: FlashBlade 2.0 With Rob Lee at Pure Accelerate (Storage Unpacked, June 2017)
- Soundbytes #009: FlashArray Update With Ivan Iannaccone at Pure Accelerate (Storage Unpacked, June 2017)
- HPE 3PAR Adaptive Data Reduction (Langton Blue, HPE Website, February 2017)
- 3D NAND: The Hard Disk Drive Killer (Network Computing, January 2016)
- Our 2016 Storage “Anti-Predictions” (Zadara Blog, January 2016)
- Cloud-based disaster recovery service grabs spotlight (SearchDisasterRecovery, January 2016)
- Unaligned I/O: A storage performance killer (Computer Weekly, January 2016)
- All-flash array roundup 2016: The big six (Computer Weekly, January 2016)
- Overcoming Cloud Storage Challenges (Network Computing, February 2016)
- All-flash storage roundup 2016: The startups (Computer Weekly, February 2016)
- Three Secular Changes in The Storage Industry (Zadara Blog, February 2016)
- Hybrid flash array roundup 2016: The Big Six (Computer Weekly, February 2016)
- HDD, Hybrid, All-flash or Everything Array (Zadara Blog, March 2016)
- Hybrid flash array roundup 2016: The startups (Computer Weekly, March 2016)
- Cloud data recovery: Documentation is the key to success (Search Diaster Recovery, March 2016)
- PCIe SSD Roundup 2016: Some stall while others progress (Computer Weekly, March 2016)
- Cloud Storage – Choose Your Protocol (Zadara Blog, March 2016)
- Flash storage roundup 2016: Flash technology outliers (Computer Weekly, March 2016)
- Cloud recovery service providers: Areas of concern (Search Disaster Recovery, March 2016)
- Zadara’s Ability to Connect to Multiple VPCs at AWS (Zadara Blog, April 2016)
- PCIe SSD: Cache vs storage tier (Computer Weekly, May 2016)
- Amazon S3 storage 101: Object storage in the cloud (Computer Weekly, May 2016)
- Backup technologies help appliances do more than backup (SearchDataBackup, June 2016)
- Can you recover from ransomware with frequent backups? (Search Data Backup, June 2016)
- Four copy management misconceptions that can affect your business (Search Data Backup, July 2016)
- AWS NFS: Pros, Cons, and How it Compares to Zadara Storage (Zadara Blog, July 2016)
- How can software for backup use cloud resources and VMs for recovery? (Search Data Backup, July 2016)
- What are three ways to better protect mobile data during backups? (Search Data Backup, July 2016)
- Object storage product survey 2016: The big six (Computer Weekly, July 2016)
- Object storage product survey 2016: The startups (Computer Weekly, August 2016)
- All Flash: The Essential Guide (Computer Weekly, August 2016)
- Backup of mobile data: What is a good testing strategy? (SearchDataBackup, August 2016)
- Flash storage caching boosts application performance, requires balance (SearchSolidStateStorage, September 2016)
- Docker storage: how to get persistent storage in Docker (Computer Weekly, September 2016)
- Back up mobile data effectively with these five tips (SearchDataBackup, September 2016)
- How can IT administrators improve a SaaS backup plan? (SearchDataBackup, September 2016)
- Hypervisor virtualization manages, supports data storage (Storage Magazine, September 2016)
- How can a Docker container backup be more reliable and consistent? (SearchDataBackup, September 2016)
- Hyper-converged versus shared storage for SMEs (Computer Weekly, October 2016)
- Docker Containers and Persistent Storage: 4 Options (Network Computing, October 2016)
- Pioneers take flash storage to analytics and big data use cases (Computer Weekly, October 2016)
- Software-defined Storage: The pros and cons, and what is available (Computer Weekly, November 2016)
- How can I ensure that my tape backup technology is secure? (SearchDataBackup, November 2016)
- Navigate the secondary storage system market with these five factors (SearchDataBackup, November 2016)
- Disaster recovery testing: A vital part of the DR plan (Computer Weekly, November 2016)
- What are some new data deduplication techniques? (SearchDataBackup, November 2016)
- Disaster recovery testing: technology systems to test DR (Computer Weekly, December 2016)
- Speaking In Tech #196 (The Register, February 2016)
- Docker Day 1 (In Tech We Trust Podcast, June 2016)
- Are pure play storage vendors gone with the wind? (HP, Youtube, retrieved 21 June 2016)
- Dell sells it’s enterprise software business (Vulcancast website, retrieved 21 June 2016)
- Chris Evans from DockerCon day 1 – approaches to storage (Vulcancast website, retrieved 29 June 2016)
- First Impressions of DigitalOcean’s new Block Storage Service with @ChrisMEvans (VulcanCast, retrieved 14 July 2016)
- The price is so low that we question if HPE can make any money on their new arrays (Vulcancast, published 19 August 2016, retrieved 20 August 2016)
- Now that the big deal is done, what comes next for Dell, EMC and VMware? A circular ridecast (Vulcancast website, retrieved 13 September 2016)
- The Bloat Strikes Back – Windows in Containers (Vulcancast website, retrieved 19 October 2016)
- Will Pure Play Storage Vendors be Gone with the Wind? (Around The Storage Block Podcast, retrieved 21 June 2016)
- Containers and storage: The challenge of persistent storage (StorageBuzz blog, retrieved 30 June 2016)
- Outgrowing Your Cloud? No Problem (cybertrend.com, November 2016)
- Software Defined Storage: Fact or Fiction (TECHunplugged Austin 2016)
- Introduction to the S3 API (Cloudian Webinar, retrieved 7 July 2016)
- Everything you need to know about the S3 Object Storage Service and S3 API compatibility (Cloudian Webinar, retrieved 7 July 2016)
- Amazon S3 Security Perspectives (Cloudian Webinar, retrieved 11 September 2016)
- Amazon S3 Advanced Features (Cloudian Webinar, retrieved 11 September 2016)
- Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Economics Justification Evaluation (Edison, PDF, January 2016)
- The Evolution of Flash Storage in The Data Center (Tegile, PDF, June 2016)
- Hitachi Video Management Platform (Hitachi Insight Group, PDF, August 2016)
- Build an OpenStack Cloud (Computer Weekly, January 2015)
- Learn to Love The Data Not The Hardware (Gestalt IT, January 2015)
- Top Five Issues in VM Backup (Computer Weekly, January 2015)
- Build an OpenStack Storage Cloud (Storage Magazine, January 2015)
- Hyper-converged infrastructure deliver storage in a bundle (Search Virtual Storage, March 2015)
- Top 5 Things You Need to Know About VMware Virtual Volumes (Computer Weekly, March 2015)
- Docker Storage 101: How Storage Works in Docker (Computer Weekly, April 2015)
- End-to-End Data Management (Gestalt IT, April 2015)
- PCIe SSD product survey 2015: New form factors emerge (Computer Weekly, April 2015)
- Erasure Coding vs RAID for disk rebuilds (Computer Weekly, May 2015)
- Object stores, metadata create smart storage systems (Storage Magazine, May 2015)
- RAID systems yield to erasure coding for data protection (Storage Magazine, July 2015)
- Realise the potential of an on-premises cloud (Search Cloud Storage, August 2015)
- Virtualisation and storage: Five ways to do it better (Computer Weekly, August 2015)
- Storage and Virtual Containers: Where Does The Data Go? (Network Computing, August 2015)
- Flash Economics: Choosing the right SSD (Kaminario I/O Storm Blog, August 2015)
- Avoiding The Forklift Upgrade (Kaminario I/O Storm Blog, August 2015)
- The Untapped Potential of Containers Technology (Zadara Storage Blog, August 2015)
- Object store integration vexing in block and file world (Storage Magazine, September 2015)
- Managing Data in The Public Cloud (Zadara Storage Blog, October 2015)
- In search of the ideal backup system (Search Data Backup, November 2015)
- Secure Cloud Storage: How Secure is Your Cloud Data? (Zadara Storage Blog, November 2015)
- Snapshots: Hypervisor vs Array (Computerweekly.com, November 2015)
- Enterprise Storage Costs, How Do You Pay For Your Storage? (Zadara Storage Blog, November 2015)
- Top 5 things to know about flash and storage tiering (Computerweekly.com, November 2015)
- Hardware Will Fail, Storage Will Work (Zadara Storage Blog, November 2015)
- Storage Evolution Produces Countless Options (Network Computing, December 2015)
- Disaster recovery planning: Where virtualisation can help (Computer Weekly, December 2015)
- VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook – Content reviewer (Packt Publishing, August 2015)
- Server-Side Caching as an Alternative to All-Flash Arrays (StarWind Software, February 2015)
- Server-side Caching (StarWind Software Inc, February 2015)
- HP StoreOnce RMC – Technical Overview and Competitive Comparison (HP Website, August 2015)
- Tips and Tricks for Leveraging NetApp Storage with Veeam (Veeam Website, August 2015)
- Kaminario Flash Economics: Achieving a $1/GB Price Point (Kaminario Resources, September 2015)
- Kaminario Data Replication Deep Dive (Kaminario Resources, October 2015)
Unfiled
- Flash flood: the second wave of flash storage has arrived (Information Age, March 2014)
- SanDisk Pushed Flash Storage Systems Into The Data Center (Daily Cloud, December 2014)
- Packetpushers Show 214 – Storage Versus Networking (Packetpushers.net, December 2014)
- BrightTalk – Designing Storage for the Big Data Revolution (BrightTalk Website, 18 June 2014)
- Going Hyper-Converged with Software Defined Storage (RedmondMag, 23 July 2014)
- Hyper-Converged or Compute and Storage Separated – Which is Best for Virtualisation (RedmondMag, 20 August 2014)
- Hybrid Cloud Just Got Real – HDS Live G+ Hangout (Google+, 9 September 2014)
- How to Reduce Disaster Recovery Expenses by up to 50% – BC/DR Best Practices for Virtual Environments (SpiceWorks, 6 November 2014)
Computer Weekly
- Thin Provisioning – hypervisor vs array (Computer Weekly, January 2015)
- How to Combat VM Sprawl (Computer Weekly, February 2015)
- $/GB vs $/IOPS and how to compare enterprise storage pricing (Computer Weekly, February 2015)
- Product Survey: Hybrid flash arrays from the startups (Computer Weekly, February 2015)
- VMware vs OpenStack: How they handle storage (Computer Weekly, June 2015)
- OpenStack Manila: File access storage for the open cloud (Computer Weekly, June 2015)
- OpenStack Cinder: Block storage on the open storage platform (Computer Weekly, June 2015)
- OpenStack Swift 101: the object store for OpenStack apps (Computer Weekly, July 2015)
- The truth about virtualisation and disaster recovery (Computer Weekly, September 2015)
- Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in VMware (Computer Weekly, September 2015)
- Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in Hyper-V (Computer Weekly, October 2015)
- 3D-NAND boosts capacity to push all-flash datacentre (Computer Weekly, January 2017)
- Hybrid cloud 101: Using the cloud as a storage tier (Computer Weekly, January 2017)
- Private cloud: Orchestration, storage and containers (Computer Weekly, February 2017)
- RAID vs erasure coding for flash storage (Computer Weekly, February 2017)
- Key challenges in storage and virtualisation and how to beat them (Computer Weekly, November 2014)
- Flash Storage 101: How solid state storage works (Computer Weekly, November 2014)
- Virtual Backup Appliance Pros and Cons (Computer Weekly, August 2014)
- Private cloud storage: what it does and how to build it (Computer Weekly, September 2014)
- Challenges in Virtual Server Backup and how to Tackle Them (Computer Weekly, October 2014)
- Virtual server backup products surveyed (Computer Weekly, June 2014)
- Key storage performance metrics for virtual environments (Computer Weekly, July 2014)
- Flash Storage: What it is and where to deploy it (Computer Weekly, February 2014)
- Converged Stacks: What they are and what they bring (Computer Weekly, March 2014)
- Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers (Computer Weekly, March 2014)
- Flash hits the motherboard with memory channel storage (Computer Weekly, March 2014)
- VMware versus Hyper-V storage comparison (Computer Weekly, April 2014)
- Write-through, Write-around, Write-back: Caching Explained (Computer Weekly, April 2014)
- In-memory databases – what they do and the storage they need (Computer Weekly, May 2014)
- Key choices in virtual machine backup (Computer Weekly, June 2014)
- Backup vs Replication, snapshots, CDP in data protection strategy (Computer Weekly, June 2014)
- OpenStack Storage: Swift and Cinder explained (Computer Weekly, June 2014)
- SMB 3.0 brings enterprise-class storage to Hyper-V deployments (Computer Weekly, November 2013)
- PCIe SSD flash storage roundup: The few become fewer (Computer Weekly, November 2013)
- Big Data Storage: Hadoop Storage Basics (Computer Weekly, October 2013)
- VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery (Computer Weekly, September 2013)
- Flash Caching Software Market Roundup (Computer Weekly, September 2013)
- LUN storage management for vSphere and Hyper-V (Computer Weekly, July 2013)
- Virtualisation and The LUN: Storage Configuration for VMs (Computer Weekly, June 2013)
- Can Hyperscale computing eclipse enterprise storage? (Computer Weekly, May 2013)
- SSD RAID Essentials: What you need to know about flash and RAID (Computer Weekly, May 2013)
- VMware Storage: SAN Configuration Basics (Computer Weekly, May 2013)
- HP Tech Talk: Software Defined Storage (SDRNews.com, May 2013)
- In-house tape vs cloud archiving: What are the pros and cons? (Computer Weekly, February 2013)
GestaltIT
- Evolving Storage from Pets to Cattle (GestaltIT.com, December 2014)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- HP 3PAR Priority Optimisation: A Competitive Comparison (HP Via Edison Group)
- HP 3PAR Thin De-duplication: A Competitive Comparison (HP Via Edison Group)
- HP 3PAR Adaptive Cache: A Competitive Comparison (HP via Edison Group)
Speaking In Tech Podcast
- Speaking in Tech Podcast #112 (The Register, June 2014)
- In Tech We Trust Podcast – 007:Not So Pure Storage (October 2014)
- Speaking In Tech Podcast #54 Live from London (Speaking In Tech, April 2013)
Storage Magazine
- Keys to a Painless Data Migration Process (Storage Magazine, August 2014)
TechTarget – searchstorage.co.uk
- Cloud archiving: A viable alternative to in-house archiving systems (Podcast, July 2012, searchstorage.co.uk)
- Cloud archive: The most mature of the cloud storage services (July 2012 – searchstorage.co.uk)
- Hybrid Flash Arrays – (Podcast, September 2012 – searchstorage.co.uk)
- iSCSI Storage Array Developments and Future Trends (March 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Federated Storage Offers Scalability and Performance In Large and Growing Environments(April 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- SMB Storage: What Can You Outsource To Cloud Storage and Backup Services? (April 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Product Survey: Tape Storage Drive Capacities and Libraries Still Growing (October 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Hybrid Cloud Solutions Address Cloud Data Storage’s Three Key Challenges (October 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Virtual Machine Storage and Block vs File (December 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Product Roundup: Scale-out NAS Meets Unstructured Data Challenge (December 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Federated Storage Offers Scalability and Performance In Large and Growing Environments(April 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Entry-level Cloud Backup Solutions and Advanced Options for SMBs (May 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Private Cloud Storage vs Storage Virtualisation (June 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- SAN Migration Strategy, Preparation and Execution (July 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Enterprise MLC (eMLC) and Solid State Storage For The Enterprise (September 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Cloud Storage Security: Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider (September 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Virtual Machine Storage and Block vs File (November 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
- Midrange Storage Arrays Come of Age With Enterprise Features (February 2011 – SearchStorage.co.uk)
Techworld (www.techworld.com)
- How to… interpret worldwide names (8 October 2010)
- How To… Use XML output with SYMAPI commands (10 November 2003)
- How to Use XML output with EMC SYMAPI Commands – Part 2 (28 November 2003)
- How to… maintain a multi-vendor supply policy (16 October 2003)
- Accounting for Storage (9 September 2003)