13 Oct, 2007

Speaking at the BarCamp

Posted by Bhavin Turakhia | (3) Comments

On Sunday, Oct 13th, 2007 - I will be speaking at the BarCampMumbai. I have already prepared a detailed presentation on Storage / SANs / DAS / Building large storage arrays. I have been meaning to conduct a training session on the same internally since several months now. While I have been researching storage for the last 6 months now, it is only when I began penning it down in PPT form that I actually realized the colossal amount of information that this training session would encompass. By the time I reached slide 43 I realized I need to break this session into multiple parts. So I will attempt to complete part I at IIT Mumbai later today.

I plan on recording the session and uploading the slides / notes / video here, but that may take a while since I am flying off to New York today evening for 2 days. So those of you who attend the BarCamp and manage to find their way here for downloading a copy of the presentation - hit the subscribe to RSS feed link and wait for an update

13 Oct, 2007

And so it all began …

Posted by Bhavin Turakhia | (2) Comments

I am a prolific writer.

Actually - scratch that statement. At best it sounds immodest, at worst it is untrue in comparison with the existing active participants of the blogosphere. I do write a lot. I also admit I want to write more than I usually do. A lot of the content I create is for internal corporate training purposes at Directi. To me that is an investment well-made. The value of my time spent in penning down something, will likely be derived by several hundred individuals over the years. I consider the value of any creation, directly proportional to the number of people that can use it. That is probably over-simplifying it, but it is definitely one of the more important variables.

We use Confluence internally, as our knowledge management system, individual blogs, news feed, the Directi University (our internal training corpus) et al. Many a times I find myself penning down articles which I believe deserve greater visibility than the confines of our Intranet - not just for the sake of self-propaganda (and every blogger knows the importance of that) but also for the sake of eliciting greater participation in the ensuing debate.

Enter the blog. Maybe not my daily journal. Maybe not a repository for regular thoughts. Hopefully a collection of articles that will be read, by a larger circle. At the least an attempt.