Chris M Evans

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Published Work

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)
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