This week at work, I’ve spent a fair amount of time working in the infrastructure space as we conducted a review of SQL Server and the underlying network infrastructure. As always, it inspired me to take a look at my home configuration – and do some tinkering. NIC Teaming The […]
Storage
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Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have a networked-attached storage (NAS) storage device by manufacturer Thecus which has 5x 2 TB drives configured in RAID-5 array. I’m always outage/data-loss conscious, so I implement a somewhat […]
So, you’re building apps that span multiple devices and you’re curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable web apps and services on Windows Azure? How about storing data in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? […]
There are numerous options available for data storage available on Windows Azure and it can be very difficult to pick the right one for a given application profile. This session will evaluate many of the various storage options available to the Azure developer in terms of their: – Ease of […]
Recently I bought a brand new Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, as I’ve wanted (for a while) to redo my approach to storage capacity and – more specifically – add some fault tolerance (by way of redundant disks). I did some research and looked in to a number of NAS […]