Lightbits Labs at Cloud Field Day 14 – Storage on Steroids!

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Cloud Field Day 14 (https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd14/) took place in sunny Silicon Valley from June 22–24, 2022. I was honored to be a delegate and could attend in person. While I encountered some challenges on my travels to San Jose from Potomac, MD (Delta flight cancellation and SW doing a pitstop for more fuel), I did make it there!

CFD14 had a heavy focus on MutiCloud, with some presentations that took me a while to understand the concepts behind it. Check out the roundtable that was recorded onsite “Multi-Cloud is Inevitable” (https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/multi-cloud-is-inevitable/)

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Synology D1621+ Network Attached Storage Review Part I

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A while back I had a conversation with Synology and learned about their review program. After some discussion about different models for some testing scenarios I plan on doing, I received a very nice Synology DS1621+ well packaged. Currently disks are hard to come by, but I also received 4x Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST400NV008.

This blog series will go through some of the features and use case scenarios I’m planning on doing. This first part will focus on unpacking and getting the basic setup down.

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