* Posts by blunderbus

6 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2017

Microsoft suffers the Tuesday shakes as Exchange Online continues to be wobbly for UK users

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MFA Bonus

As a bonus, non-blighty users are now stuck in the MFA borked hell again.

F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs

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Sounds like they are going to have troubles setting up weekly Devils Triangle meeting.

Microsoft hopes it has a sequel better than Godfather Part II: SQL Server 2019 previewed

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Managed Instances

"Azure SQL Managed Instances arriving this week and providing nearly complete compatibility with the on-premises version of SQL Server"

Just so long as you don't want to take the backup off of MI and restore it anywhere else you'll be golden.

Two years and $19bn later: What happened to WD's SanDisk enterprise flash advantage?

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Walking away from products does not help

They bought SanDisk, who had purchased FusionIO. Then they walked away from the product. Their latter line of products doesn't work on Windows 2012, which is still in use in many places.

Hard to do well in the market when people cannot trust you actually supporting the product tomorrow that you sell today.

DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds

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Super fast response times

131ms? Are they running this on an old HP Autoraid, or 5400 RPM drive?

I get microsecond latency numbers off of PCIe Flash, and NVMe storage, why would I want to bounce to "1995 performance mode"?

Enterprise flash storage market report reads like it's a vendors graveyard

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Facepalm

FusionIO - bought by SANDisk - bought by WD - now under HGST (subsidiary of WD) and products canned