Strandline  /  Technology Consulting

Deep storage and infrastructure expertise, when your project calls for it.

Independent consulting for high-performance storage and the systems beneath it, drawn from years of enterprise and media-and-entertainment work.

Alongside the web work, I take on select consulting engagements in high-performance storage and infrastructure: architecture, performance, and the hard problems that sit below the application layer. If your organization runs serious data systems, this is the deeper end of what I do.

What I help with

Three places I tend to be most useful.

01 / DESIGN

Architecture & design

Planning storage and infrastructure that holds up under real workloads.

  • High-performance & HPC storage design
  • Global namespace and tiering strategy
  • Capacity and growth planning
02 / PERFORMANCE

Performance & troubleshooting

Finding and fixing what slows systems down, from filesystem to fabric.

  • Filesystem and throughput analysis
  • Network and fabric investigation
  • Root-cause diagnosis on stubborn issues
03 / ADVISORY

Advisory & planning

An independent read when the stakes and the spend are high.

  • Technology and vendor evaluation
  • Migration and modernization planning
  • Architecture reviews and second opinions
Where the depth is

Built on years of enterprise and media-and-entertainment storage work.

My background is in large-scale, high-performance storage and the infrastructure around it, including parallel filesystems, object storage, and the demanding throughput needs of media production and HPC.

IBM Storage Scale (GPFS)High-performance & HPC storageParallel filesystemsObject storageStorage networking & fabricMedia & entertainment workflowsPerformance diagnostics
How I work

Scoped, independent, and straight with you.

01

Defined engagements

Each project is scoped up front, with a clear goal and a clear end. No open-ended retainers unless that's what fits.

02

Vendor-independent

My read isn't tied to selling you any one product. You get an honest technical assessment.

03

Plain answers

Findings and recommendations in language your team and your leadership can both act on.

For organizations

Have a storage or infrastructure problem worth a closer look?

Tell me what you're working on. If it's a fit, I'll tell you how I can help, and if it isn't, I'll tell you that too.