Basics & Standards

Fundamentals, Concepts, and standards

  • Storage Nitty-Gritty 3 of 5 – NAS and Object Storage

    NAS (network attached storage) NAS server is dedicated to file-serving. NAS device runs its own specialized operating system that is optimized for file I/O, integrated…

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  • Cryptography Basics 1 of 2

    I have been dabbling with OpenSSL commands to achieve what I needed during IT implementation, but I decided to spent some time to overcome the…

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  • Git Explained 1 of 2

    In a nutshell, Git is a distributed version control system, commonly used as source control management. It places files in one of three logical areas…

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  • Storage Nitty-Gritty 2 of 5 – SAN

    In direct attached storage (DAS), storage is server centric and the host owns the storage. The storage is fully dedicated to the server that owns…

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  • Application I/O Characteristics

    There are many unknown factors and randomness when a solution architect determines storage requirement for an application. However, this process should still be as scientific…

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  • Storage Nitty-Gritty 1 of 5 – Disk and RAID

    On my trip I have been through several pre-sales discussions on storage. Therefore I’m taking this opportunities to write up a series of postings deep…

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