“If that puck would’ve crossed the line Gord, that would’ve been a goal!” – Pierre McGuire – A Mr Obvious, annoying hockey commentator that drives me absolutely insane! (Sorry, watching the Habs game as I put all this together :))
Jambalaya and Backups – Get there!
Veeam had some big announcements this year along with a slew of releases of new products, beta’s and big updates to existing products. All that said we can only assume that VeeamON, the availability conference focussed on the green is going to be a big one! This year it takes place May 16-18 in New Orleans – a nice break from the standard Vegas conferences! I’ve been to both VeeamON conferences thus far and I can tell you that they are certainly worth it – all of Veeams engineers/support is there so if you have a question, yeah, it’ll get answered and then some! So, if you can go, go! If you can’t, if it’s a money thing – guess what??? Veeams raffling off 10, yes 10 fully paid (airfare, hotel, conference) trips over the holidays – so yeah, go sign up!
But we have a REST API?
Although this post by John Hidlebrand may be a month old I just read it this week and it sparked some of my own inner frustrations that simmer around deep inside me 🙂 John talks about how having a REST API is just not enough at times – and I completely agree! I’m seeing more and more companies simply state, oh yeah, we have a REST API, we are our first customer! That’s all said and great – but guess what, you wrote it and you know how to use it! All to often companies are simply developing the API and releasing it, but without any documentation or code examples on how to consume it! John brings up a good point about, hey, how’s about having some PowerShell cmdlets built around it? How about having an SDK we can consume? Building your application off of a REST API is a great start don’t get me wrong, but if you want people to automate around your product – help us out a little please 🙂
In through iSCSI, out through SMB, in through SWIFT, out through REST
Fellow Veeam Vanguard and TFD12 delegate Tim Smith has a post over on his blog describing a lot of the different storage protocols on the market today and how EMC, sorry, Dell-EMC Isilon is working to support them all without locking down specific data to a specific protocol. If you have some time I’d certainly check it out!
Happy Thanksgiving Murica!
I’ve always found it odd that Canadians and Americans not only celebrate thanksgiving on different days, but in different months as well! Come to find out there are quite a few other differences as well. You can see the two holidays compared on the diffen.com site. It makes sense that we here in Canada celebrate a bit earlier – especially if our thanks revolves around the harvest. I mean, no one wants to wait till November in Canada to harvest their gardens and crops – you’d be shoveling snow off of everything! Either way – Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends – may your Turkey coma’s be long-lasting!
