If you are affected by DROWN you are an idiot
Drown is the latest vulnerability in OpenSSL. Essentially it allows an attacker to decrypt your TLS session and get data out of that session.
The thing is, it is based on a vulnerability in SSLv2! Here lies my problem with this: SSLv2 has been known to be insecure for …
All Backup Solutions Suck
Recently I have been working a lot on a backup solution at work, which has been a painful experience to say the least. Why? Simply because there is no solution that meets my ideal requirements. These are pretty precise:
- Open Source
- Openstack Swift as a backend
- File level restores
- Scalable …
RHEL and CentOS joining forces
Yesterday saw probably the biggest FLOSS news in recent times. Certainly the biggest news of 2014 so far :-) By some freak of overloaded RSS readers, I missed the announcement, but I did see this:
Day 1 at the new job. Important stuff first.. Where do I get my Red Hat …
The End of Centralised Storage
That is a pretty drastic
title, especially given that I spend a significant part of my day job
working with EMC storage arrays. The other day I replied to a tweet by
Scott Lowe :
\@scott\_lowe with things like Gluster and Ceph what does shared storage actually give apart from …
Open Source Virtual SAN thought experiment
Okay, I know I am little slow on the uptake here, but I was on holiday at the time. The announcement of Virtual SAN at VMWorld the last week got me thinking a bit.
Very briefly, Virtual SAN takes locally attached storage on you hypervisors. It then turns it into …
Dell Announces VRTX
Dell has announced the new PowerEdge VRTX (pronounced Vertex). The name comes from a vertex being "the intersection of multiple lines", alluding to this being a mixture of a rack server, a blade server and a SAN.
It is aimed at branch offices, so it contains 4 servers, storage, networking …
EMC ViPR thoughts
I have been a little slow on the uptake on this one. I would like to say it is because I was carefully digesting the information, but that is not true; the reality is that I have just had 2 5 day weekends in 2 weeks :-).
The big announcement at …
Stop the hate on software RAID
I've had a another bee in my bonnet recently. Specifically, it has been to do with hardware vs software RAID, but I think it goes deeper than that. It started a couple of months back with a discussion on Reddit. Some of the comments were:
Get out, get out now …
What a boss owes their staff
I recently had a conversation on Twitter with my friend Rob Borley who runs a mobile startup. He had asked what interesting perks he should be giving his staff.
My initial response was the standard IT answer. Training, certifications and a lab to play in, which they already have. I …
Thoughts on the shiney new VMAX
tags storage
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