Listen in on a candid conversation with Stephen Foskett, a fixture in the world of enterprise information technology, longtime voice in the storage industry, and organizer-in-chief of Gestalt IT’s Tech…
Dropped Packets with Stephen Foskett — SolarWinds TechPod 003
Growing Beyond Your First Storage System
At some point, your first storage system will be “full.” I’m writing it as “full” because the system might not actually be 100% occupied with data at that exact point…
When is a Storage System Full?
When designing the underlying storage infrastructure for a set of applications, several metrics are important. First, there’s capacity. How much storage do you need? This is a metric that’s well…
Choosing What to Monitor – Understanding Key Metrics
Monitoring has always been a loosely defined and somewhat controversial term in IT organizations. IT professionals have very strong opinions about the tools they use, because monitoring performance metrics and…
Paving the Road to Your Storage System
A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data…
The Unifying Force of Data
Someday, we may look back on IT as a subset of social science as much as a technological discipline. Because it sits at the intersection of business and technology, visibility…