Author: frank

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 114-page issue, 2023 No.4, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: Cheryl and Tom's blog post announcing their plans to retire and close the Watson & Walker company and cease publication of Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter.  This is truly the end of an...

By now, I expect all our readers will have heard the news about Cheryl and Tom retiring.  Of course, Cheryl’s ‘We’re Retiring’ blog post thanked everyone for all the friendship and support they’ve given her over the years, but she didn’t say anything about the thanks we all owe her.  So I’m going to take...

Dear Watson & Walker customers and friends, We have some really big news - at the end of 2024 we’re retiring and shutting down our business and the Tuning Letter. Tom and I would like to thank you all for being such fantastic customers and friends for the past many years. We especially want to...

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 114-page issue, 2023 No.3, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: Our Recovery at Scale article in Tuning Letter 2023 No. 2 caused quite a stir, with numerous readers commenting that it made them aware of challenges they didn't even know...

We are now just over half way through the 2023 Summer SHARE conference. As I expected, my biggest problem is in trying to decide between which of the excellent sessions I will attend – I have a minimum of three competing sessions in most slots.  It is a big help having Mario here with me –...

The 2023 Summer SHARE conference will be held in the New Orleans Hyatt Regency hotel starting tomorrow.  This is a traditional 5-day conference.  If you are attending, check out the agenda and download the SHARE app for your mobile device. I (Frank) will be co-presenting two sessions: Wednesday, 16:00, Empire C, I will be moderating the ‘Observability...

Subscribers to Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter can find the latest 112-page issue, 2023 No.2, on our publications website (https://watsonwalkerpublications.com/). In this issue, you will find the following articles: "We considered that by using disk replication and GDPS we were safe. But when I try to answer all the questions you make in the Loss of Volume(s) section I...