Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

'In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. It is the difference between plodding along, or winning big. But choosing what to focus on is extremely hard. You have to have a deeper understanding of the business, an expansive knowledge of what is possible (and not just inside Google/Adobe Analytics), and, this is so, so, so important, the ability to balance the now and the near future.

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Darkhorse

MARCH 15, 2014

The goaltenders from my youth - Bill Ranford, Andy Moog, Grant Fuhr - all had jersey numbers in the low thirties. And most of the goalies I can think of now have numbers in the low thirties. This got me wondering, how do the numbers number by position across the major sports leagues? What traditions, rules, and preferences do they reveal? So, after some python scraping and excel manipulating we find ourselves with a paradox: uniform distributions that aren't uniform distributions.

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Nutanix

MARCH 11, 2014

Today, with great excitement, we are launching a new online community – Nutanix Next. This online community is open to anyone who is passionate about enterprise datacenters and cloud initiatives.

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Nutanix

MARCH 5, 2014

Flash is everywhere these days and everyone likes to throw out impressive performance numbers. If someone told you that flash is faster than a hard drive I am sure the thought that pops into your head is, “yeah… thanks for the info”.

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Nutanix

MARCH 4, 2014

In my IT career at work I have never had shared storage that didn’t have snapshots integrated. They were considered fundamental to me if I was going to put all my eggs into one basket.

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Nutanix

MARCH 4, 2014

Nutanix being a converged distributed solution is designed for failure. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Distributed systems are extremely complex for some of the following reasons.

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