Posts by tallmantim2

Holy helmets, Batman! Bane-like mask lets you 'talk' to computers without making a sound

Bane

explains why he has that mask on.

he just want to chat privately to Alexa.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant mages shake crystal ball, Violin goes topsy turvy

Re: The very small difference from last year's MQ means the AFA market is saturated and frozen

There were good reasons for setting this up as a separate analysis IMO; there is a lot of difference between a traditional array (even one with SSD exclusively in it) and an AFA.

There is a combination of:

1. Optimisation of IO to deal with fast throughput of SSDs/Flash

2. In-line dedupe to reduce cost/GB

3. In-line compression to reduce cost/GB

So an HDS VSP/G1000 etc or EMC VMAX with Flash is not an AFA. A Tintri VMStore or EMC XtremeIO are an AFA because their architecture has been built from the ground up with this in mind.

This is also why we see NetApp move so far over - they changed from their crappy kludge interpretation of an AFA with their FAS and purchased SolidFire.

(I have previously worked at both HDS and Tintri - I no longer work for a storage vendor)

Moto 360: Neat gizmo – if you're a rich nerd

I have a Samsung Gear 2

...and quite like it.

The phone stays in my pocket at work, on silent. You configure which alerts you want to be interrupted by (eg. ignore Facebook pokes, but make sure you get notified it's your turn in Words With Friends during boring meetings!). The watch is set to vibrate - so it too is unobtrusive.

The other things that I regularly use:

* Pedometer - no real reason (as I use other fitness apps and devices for proper training - just interesting)

* Timer (handy when cooking - so can sit down in the other room with a cake in the oven and go check without having to hear the timer)

* Hands free - easy when I am doing something like cooking again - have it on my wrist and the phone can be elsewhere

* Media player - handy (with 4GB storage) for running with bluetooth headphones on without carrying phone

I can certainly live without it - but as it was just another $10/month on contract for 24 months it was priced and packaged right!