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A blog about Virtualization, Storage, Disaster Recovery and Technology in general.

The Wheelbarrow

In the Sunday morning sermon at church one week, the minister told a story that I would I would like to share now.  (I may not get it exactly, so please forgive my mistakes.) The patriarch of a famous family of acrobats wanted to show off his prowess by walking a tightrope across the Grand [...]
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Get your Geek On…

Although I have been on the management side of IT for the last 10-12 years, the first 10 years of my career I was very much on the technical side and everyone once in a while I like to return to my roots. The last few weeks I have been working on my ho...
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Madness, VMAX’s and a year’s gone by. Oh My.

It has been a year since the last time I posted about Varrow Madness back in 2011.  Since then quite a lot has changed in the form of my personal growth as an Engineer, growth of Varrow and all around … Continue reading
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vNook – vLinks 3/16/2012

Below are some links I found interesting or useful this week (work or otherwise). Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery One of my favorite subtopics in technology is the area of backup and recovery. Primarily, this is because of the impact … Continue reading
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Varrow Madness Session Slides

I greatly appreciate all who attended my session at Varrow Madness as well as the good discussions afterwards. For anyone who would like to view them the slides from my presentation “Disaster Recovery: Business and Technology” are available on Slideshare. Disaster Recovery – Business & Technology   If you’d like them in another format, just [...]
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VNX & Isilon, Isilon & VNX…oh the dilemma.

As an EMC partner, I’m definitely seeing a lot of excitement around Isilon right now…which given it’s a fantastic product is very cool. While VNX and Isilon both have clear strengths, they do overlap at a high level so I’ve found myself having a “what’s the best fit?” conversation somewhat regularly with customers. Along those lines, [...]
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On Starting: Helping

It won’t take you long after clicking on the About page to get a good sense of what I’m all about. So how does who I am, and in particular my faith, fit with my career? I regularly give that … Continue reading
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vNook – vLinks (3/9/2012)

Below are some links I found interesting or useful this week (work or otherwise). Cisco – UCS Announcements My colleague Jason Nash has an excellent post here detailing some of the important announcements around Intel and Cisco’s announcements. Please go … Continue reading
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Cisco UCS Users Group in RTP on March 22nd!

Just a reminder that the Cisco UCS Users Group in RTP is meeting on March 22nd.  I will be there speaking about the new Romley and M3 announcements that came out today.  My post about them is here.  Also on the schedule is Josh Atwell who will be doing a great presentation on the power [...]
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Cisco UCS M3 and Intel Romley

Today Cisco officially unveils the next generation of UCS servers.  These go along with the new announcement by Intel this week of their “Romley” platform that use the E5-2600 family of CPUs.  Let’s take a look at what’s new, changed, and where that puts us. First, Let’s Look at Intel’s Announcement These new blades are [...]
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Core Values

The core values of an organization are those values we hold which form the foundation on which we perform work and conduct ourselves.Not every organization has core values, but they should.  Of the organizations that have core values I believe the...
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Last Call for Varrow Madness 2012!

Next week is it!  In case you’ve ignored all my other posts and Tweets Varrow Madness 2012 is next Thursday, March 15th at the Westin in downtown Charlotte.  You can see the full agenda and register by clicking on the logo above.  Do me a favor!  When you register put my name (Jason Nash) as [...]
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esxtop and OSX’s Terminal Application

Being a Mac user I’m always using OSX’s Terminal application.  It works well and I haven’t found a need for a 3rd party Terminal app, except maybe when working with a USB to Serial device for device configs.  One problem I’ve seen people complain about is using esxtop in Terminal.  Instead of what you should [...]
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vNook – vLinks (3/3/2012)

Below are some links I found interesting or useful this week in my work. EMC – ItemPoint If you’re an Exchange 2007 or 2010 Administrator who has ever struggled with recovering single items (email, file, etc.) in one of the … Continue reading
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On Starting: Learning

If you’ve ever taken a personality test, you’ll know they typically attempt to categorize traits or aspects of your personality. No matter which one I take, if it contains standard categories, one continually presents itself: Learner. Interestingly, learning has not … Continue reading
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