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PowerStore 3.0 Announced!

Datacenter Storage

At Dell Tech World 2022 this week Dell announced the upcoming release of PowerStore 3.0 which includes new hardware as well as some serious software updates.  Unfortunately,...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 5th 2022 | No Comments

Dell SC End of Life

Datacenter Storage

Dell SC, perhaps better known as Compellent, has finally had its end of life formally announced.  I feel like many people have been watching for this since the acquisition...

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by Rick Gouin | on Aug 23rd 2021 | No Comments

Hardening Dell Storage Center (SC) – Compellent

Cybersecurity Datacenter Storage

Over the last year or so, I’ve helped multiple companies recover from ransomware events utilizing snapshots on their storage arrays.  In several of these instances,...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 25th 2021 | No Comments
PowerStore OS Version 2 Updates List

New Dell PowerStore OS 2.0 Really is Future Ready

Datacenter Storage

Dell just announced PowerStore OS version 2.0.  It will be available for download on 6/10/2021. If you are new to PowerStore, check out this intro post here.  As you can...

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by Rick Gouin | on Apr 22nd 2021 | 2 Comments

Dell’s PowerStore reaches down market with new entry level PS500T

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Dell is expanding the reach of the PowerStore mid-range storage platform further down-market with the introduction of the entry level PowerStore 500T.  This smaller system...

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by Rick Gouin | on Apr 22nd 2021 | 2 Comments

Self host Bitwarden in AWS

Homelab Tech Soup

I’ve used a number of different password managers over the years.  I was a LastPass user for a long time, but recently felt compelled to take a look at other options...

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by Rick Gouin | on Feb 24th 2021 | No Comments

Run a Windows 10 Instance in AWS EC2

AWS Tech Soup Virtualization

You want a Microsoft Windows 10 instance in your EC2 environment.  Maybe its for a jump box, maybe its for direct access to some RDS instances or other services.  Whatever...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 20th 2021 | 7 Comments

Make Your Own METAR Weather Map

Tech Soup

This is kind of like COVID sourdough bread for pilots.  Seems like many of us undertook this fun project to keep us busy during COVID.  As usual, I was a little behind the...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 8th 2021 | 17 Comments
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Move an Existing VM into AWS EC2

AWS Datacenter Disaster Recovery Homelab

You want to move a VM into AWS EC2 with as little knowledge as possible, right?  You don’t care to become an expert in AWS, you just want enough to get the job done. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 5th 2021 | 1 Comment

New PowerStore in the Lab!

Datacenter Storage

As I mentioned here, we were beta testers for the Dell PowerStore all-flash storage array.  We tested everything from initial imaging of the array as either a Model T or...

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by Rick Gouin | on Aug 11th 2020 | No Comments
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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
23 Aug

Dell SC storage arrays, maybe better known as Compellent, are now officially end of sale. I wrote up a post with a few things users need to know here: https://www.rickgouin.com/dell-sc-end-of-life/

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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
25 May 2021

Worked with a few folks to use storage array snapshots to recover from ransomware attacks recently. Here is a checklist to help harden your @Dell SC Storage array: https://www.rickgouin.com/hardening-dell-storage-center/

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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
8 Apr 2021

Our own @vMattK popped up on @boston25 news last night talking about a recent cyber attack on the State of Mass RMV that caused vehicle inspections to shut down: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/rmv-inspections-out-commission-after-cyber-attack-vendor/EL5PVJWKVVCLFCRT5MVO4MYQ5E/

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