Nechápeš "bitkojn"? Je to hovadina pre mladých? Nástroj finančnej sebevraždy pre blbcov? Čítaj. Pochopila to moja mama, pochopila to moja sestra. Pochopíš aj ty.

You have pretty expensive NAS. With the missing disaster-recovery configuration. Let's add it for almost zero cost.

Remember when GitLab lost customers' data? How to avoid the same in your company? Read my advice.

Many storage teams use port numbers instead of WWNs during FC zone configuration. Do you belong to them? Personally, I think you are making big mistake. It seems that life is easier with port based FC zones but I will show you it could be opposite. If every touching of configuration is handled as planned change by your documented processes, read next. ...

If you are managing storage operations team, you are dealing with task how to run systems within your limited budget. Every technical issue costs you a money. Every outage caused by human error is therefore irritating. To eliminate human errors you are fighting with 3 following issues: not possible to limit admin access rights for less skilled team members typos in the naming convention causing non-functional reports non-unified configuration of disk arrays Nobody is solving these problems in most of the companies as there is no time, willingness to do it and often there is a belief that the solution is extremely expensive. But solution is relatively simple and surprisingly cheap. ...

Dream workflow Ak šéfuješ ľuďom, čo majú na starosti diskové polia, denne bojuješ s tým, ako zabezpečiť beh systémov v rámci svojho prideleného rozpočtu. Každý technický problém ťa stojí peniaze. Každý výpadok spôsobený ľudskou chybou ťa štve o to viac. A pri eliminácii ľudských chýb bojuješ s nasledovnými problémami: Nemožnosť prideliť obmedzený admin prístup menej skúseným členom tímu Neodhalené preklepy v názvosloví spôsobujú nefunkčnosť reportov Nejednotná konfigurácia diskových polí Vo väčšine firiem tieto problémy nikto nerieši. Nie je na to čas, chuť a často presvedčenie, že riešenie je extrémne drahé a tým pádom nie sú ani peniaze. Riešenie je však relatívne jednoduché a prekvapivo lacné. ...

Typical NetApp snapshots The current “ordinal” naming snapshot policy creates snapshots with the names like nightly.0 nightly.1 … What’s wrong with it? Everybody are using them! ...

At the beginning I have to admit that Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) is a great idea. During ancient times of NBU we had NBU Vault available. Nifty tool allowing us to select backup images by various filters and create new copies on tapes prepared to eject from tape library and transport to offsite location. And by reading documentation for 7.6 version it supports duplication from any Storage Unit (STU) to any STU....

Money in handby Tax Credits @ Flickr; CC BY 2.0 That was very weird situation. I have heard about one amazing project. Imagine idea to create tablet application to teach children that have no possibility to visit school. Or if the school system is not good enough. Or for any child that wants to learn more than in school. Did you read The Diamond Age from Neil Stephenson? Great novel. The main idea is about interactive book. By telling story is able to teach small girl. During few years from basic - reading/counting - to programming, self defense,… Of course. This application will not be such complex but can be some starting point to alternative teaching. I decided to donate. Great, just do it. ...

You know this situation. In some remote site you have just some amount of empty tapes available and nobody to add new ones to library available. Or it’s Friday afternoon, tape library is down and you don’t know whether the space on staging disk storage unit will be enough to accomodate wekend backups? ...