Is more of something always better? Depends on what you are doing

Is more always better? Depends on what you are doing

As with many things it depends, however how about some of these?

Is more better for example (among others):

Facebook likes
Twitter followers or tweets (I’m @storageio btw)
Google+ likes, follows and hangouts
More smart phone apps
LinkedIn connections
People in your circle or community
Photos or images per post or article
People working with or for you
Partners vs. doing more with those you have
People you are working for or with
Posts or longer posts with more in them
IOPs or SSD and storage performance
Domains under management and supported
GB/TB/PB/EB supported or under management
Mart-time jobs or a better full-time opportunity
Metrics vs. those that matter with context
Programmers to get job done (aka mythical man month)
Lines of code per cost vs. more reliable and tested code per cost
For free items and time spent managing them vs. more productivity for a nominal fee
Meetings for planning on what to do vs. streamline and being more productive
More sponsors or advertisers or underwriters vs. fewer yet more effective ones
Space in your booth or stand at a trade show or conference vs. using what you have more effectively
Copies of the same data vs. fewer yet more unique (not full though) copies of information
Patents in your portfolio vs. more technology and solutions being delivered
Processors, sockets, cores, threads vs. using them more effectively
Ports and protocols vs. using them more effectively

Thus does more resources matter, or making more effective use of them?

For example more ports, protocols, processors, cores, sockets, threads, memory, cache, drives, bandwidth, people among other things is not always better, particular if those resources are not being used effectively.

Likewise don’t confuse effective with efficient often assumed to mean used.

For example a cache or memory may be 100% used (what some call efficient) yet only providing a 35% effective benefit (cache hit or miss) vs. cache turn (misses etc).

Throwing more processing power in terms of clock speed, or cores is one thing, kind of like throwing more server blades at a software problem vs. using those cores and sockets not to mention threads more effectively.

Good software will run better on fast hardware while enabling more to be done with the same or less.

Thus with better software or tools, more work can be done in an effective way leveraging those resources vs. simply throwing or applying more at the situation.

Hopefully you get the point, so no need to do more with this post (for now), if not, stay tuned and pay more attention around you.

Ok, nuff said, I need to go get more work done now.

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)

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