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Re: Flash Capacities and Failure Domains

Etherealmind — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:27:06 -0000

There is a different angle to consider. Today, most companies regard storage as a scarce/limited resource and consider 500TB-1PB to be a large amount of data. Therefore the the failure domain is quite small when a single unit has 1PB of storage.

Consider an organisation that has 10, 20 or 50PB of data to manage. The failure domain becomes 'normal' and multiple 1RU chassis will handle the use case nicely, less space, less power.

In my view, we have to check & re-check our thinking that IT infrastructure is scarce & precious resource in 2017. Its cheap, small, low power and we need to start 'wasting' resources to get bigger.

Re: 3 Hidden Lessons Behind Top Podcasts to Help Yours Stand Out

Etherealmind — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:59:11 -0000

The abolutism in your post is what troubled me enough to make this comment.

Literally everything you recommend here is based on the concepts of old media. If you base a business on these precepts , you will struggle to gain an audience and be even less likely to retain them.

Find your own voice, be your own person and ditch the tedious predictability of radio and TV.

But, hey, you will build something and claim you are successful, I'll just get back to doing it.

Re: 3 Hidden Lessons Behind Top Podcasts to Help Yours Stand Out

Etherealmind — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:42:59 -0000

Just wanted to quickly say that everything in this article is incorrect. I have built a a seven figure podcast business doing exactly the opposite of your recommendations.

Re: The Media Briefing

Etherealmind — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:43:07 -0000

Post is a waste of space, doesn't match the title. It's an SEO suck.

Re: The TextExpander subscription snafu

Etherealmind — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:17:52 -0000

I can't stand subscription pricing mainly because its painful to reconcile credit card statements. I don't want syncing either. And I can't see how any of the other stuff is worth the money because I still have to pay for IFTTT, Zapier etc.

Not enough to keep me in. Moving to Keyboard Maestro.

Re: Bild on ad blocking software: we will not be blackmailed - Digiday

Etherealmind — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:48:08 -0000

Fails to go deep enough. How many people who use ad-blocking left the site completely and disengaged from the brand ? A drop in total pages views could measure this but is not mentioned.

I use an ad-blocker to protect myself from malware injected by ad-tech companies and to protect time/attention from over-distraction. What about their opinion on this perspective ?

Re: The e-book Industry is in a State of Decline – 2015 Year in Review

Etherealmind — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:56:44 -0000

I will not work with a traditional publisher again. I'm won't work with arcane tools, write in a format that I don't like or submit on an insane schedule.

On revenue - I'm taking an enormous risk in traditional publishing on book sales compared to the work needed. Because I make a such small percentage of actual sales, I'm bearing the risk of production. If the book fails, my time & effort is wasted.

Today, I sell plenty of books to cover the work time required to produce them and make a tidy profit. I have an efficient workflow that is fast and reliable. I don't have to deal with "big company stupid" like legal & commissioning, editors/reviewers who know nothing about my content or deliver manuscripts in the vile workflow horror that is Microsoft Word.

The new independent market is much bigger than you think. I don't sell my books through a channel that you can count.

Re: Why is Silicon Valley helping the tech-savvy jihadists?

Etherealmind — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:09:06 -0000

This article is wrong from start to finish.

1. Technology didn't commit this atrocity, people did.
2. There are hundreds of messaging platforms and beyond the physical capacity of nation-state services to monitor them.

3. The ability to "backdoor" encryption or communications provides everyone with attack vector. Not just my lawful government, but also also foreign governments, criminals, newspaper journalists, employers, insurance companies and more.

Re: AWS IoT vs Cisco Fog Computing – Cloud vs Network IoT

Etherealmind — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:27:24 -0000

Short sighted at usual.

Re: Musing: Amazon stops selling competitor products, impact on AWS ?

Etherealmind — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:27:22 -0000

You don't see it, but Dropbox had a substantial private cloud ......... Because Amazon stabs partners in the back

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:23:25 -0000

A tool

Re: A Segmented Front End Web Network Architecture

Etherealmind — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:48:42 -0000

There was some risk that would happen. But now that mobile OS have all got IPv6 stacks that seem stable enough, you don’t need to implement CGN gateways which would have required large numbers of IPv4.

The big cloud providers have already grabbed what IPv4 they can.

I’m not sure where the demand will come from to push up prices - switching to IPv6 could be low cost enough that buying IPv4 isn’t worth it.

Re: Musing: Who Cares About FCoE in 2015 ?

Etherealmind — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:45:42 -0000

I suspect that you were already heading that way.

Re: A Segmented Front End Web Network Architecture

Etherealmind — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:06:37 -0000

We chose not to implement IPv6 in the first stage to keep the costs down. And the selected vendors were unable to give guarantees that their IPv6 was reliable and stable - sometimes because we chose used/2nd hand hardware with old software, sometimes because they just didn't have mature IPv6.

We expect to implement IPv6 as an operational upgrade after the first deployment is completed.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: A Segmented Front End Web Network Architecture

Etherealmind — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:01:19 -0000

Its not too bad today, but a company that plans to grow 100x but doesn't have the upfront cash that is a problem.

IPv6 .... where are't thou ?

Re: A Segmented Front End Web Network Architecture

Etherealmind — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:00:17 -0000

As Ryan says, the session state is most often managed in the application stack and less often managed in the load balancer. Reasons to keep sessions on the load balancers:

1. for consistent path experience for the user
2. reduce load on the application server - session state changes might be costly in terms of CPU on servers.
3. centralised logging.

But all of these reasons apply to legacy concepts of applications and most people don't need to keep state on the load balancer any more.

Re: Apple Keynote 2015 – Enterprise & Personal

Etherealmind — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 02:56:12 -0000

In some parts, yes, it could be harder. But when paying millions for a single unit (instead of hundreds) it is reasonable expect the same level of quality.

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:58:54 -0000

In, above, below. Short-term and long term advisory.

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:57:57 -0000

The ITIL framework is flawed in terms of incentives.

The ultimate outcome of ITIL is that it creates incentives to prevent change. Over years, this creates flawed business flow and IT becomes a cost centre instead of a profit centre.

"But I have also seen how one brilliant mind in testing or change management can make a difference between defunct department and great success story." You don't build a change process on brilliant minds, the very purpose of a methodology is so that ordinary people can deliver consistent results.

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:55:46 -0000

Still making excuses for a flawed methodology there.

Re: The Network Command Line is Dying

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:54:11 -0000

Take a look at Python using the Ansible framework today. Kirk Byers has a great program for people to learn with - https://pynet.twb-tech.com/

Re: The Network Command Line is Dying

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:53:27 -0000

The short term future is automation scripting using frameworks like Ansible.

The long term future is SDN application and platforms which will deliver much more than automation of the CLI.

Both systems will use SNMP & Netconf to configure devices in addition to emerging APIs such as OVSDB.

Re: Apple Keynote 2015 – Enterprise & Personal

Etherealmind — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:51:23 -0000

You are mixed up here. I believe in paying a premium if I receive a quality product in return.

I believe in open source/whitebox because the price I pay is fair value compared to costly premiums I might pay to IBM. EMC, Cisco et al for products that have serious defects or deficiencies. And defects that recur year-on-year.

Well aware that Apple A9x is an ARM licensed product, but only the intellectual property of the CPU is licensed. All manufacture, packaging etc is done by Apple and they maintain a silicon design team that is substantial (bigger than Cisco I believe) to optimise the A9 for their own applications.

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 07:54:43 -0000

Lots of people get paid for doing nothing in a ITIL infrastructure.

Re: Why I Hate ITIL So Much

Etherealmind — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 07:54:15 -0000

Thanks,