So I just taught a class for SNIA on Swordfish and how to build your own Swordfish provider in 2 easy lunch and learn sessions. It has kicked off in me an interest in fleshing
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Storage Developers Conference EU 2020.
Next week is Storage Develope Conference Europe, and I will be presenting and running a Swordfish Mockathon. The event is a bit more intimate than the SDC is the USA, but still contains a number
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Ignite 2019
Well, another successful event, and the blisters on my feet to prove it. I attend a number of conferences each year, and there is something special about this one. Its not the sessions (which I
Continue ReadingThe Futures so bright, gotta wear shades.
Sometimes to move forward you need to look back, and I mean WAYYYY back. All legacy management platforms own their existence to SNMP, and really to be manageable, the first protocol you commonly support is
Continue ReadingIn PowerShell it’s all about the Community: PS Gallery
So when writing a new PowerShell Module, you should consider how people are going to download it. Commonly these PowerShell modules have been tucked away behind vendor support websites that require logon, and while this
Continue ReadingHow to write a PowerShell Module that exposes a RestAPI endpoint.
Yeah, of course I will be explaining this via the Nimble Storage PowerShell Toolkit, which is (IMHO) a great example of how to do this correctly. Perfect, well no, but its going down the right
Continue ReadingCertificate Problems on Linux with PowerShell
So we have a Nimble Storage PowerShell Toolkit that can be used to fully manage a Nimble Storage Array. The toolkit exposes the entire API as individual atomic commands, which really is the right way
Continue ReadingHow I love ICANN, Let me Count the Ways…0x00
If you are curious where the blog went in the past week, it was a comedy of errors. Last week if you attempted to access this page you received a message from the ICANN that
Continue ReadingSNIA Symposium Day 3/4/5
With day three I spent part of my time with the Swordfish Protocol group as I did on Day 1/2, but added in time participating in the Swordfish Hackathon on specific projects. One of the
Continue ReadingSNIA Symposium Day 1/2
A Roll-up of the work from the first two days of the event as it is going quite well. There is a track for the Swordfish Specification in which we discuss changes to the Specifications
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