I interviewed Joe Kremer, VP South Asia/Australia/New Zealand, on camera at Dell Enterprise Forum, AU in November 2013. Unfortunately I only captured ambient audio for my notes and didn’t have a lapel mic or second mic source to capture my questions, so you get title blocks instead. My A/V editing… Read More
It’s been a bit over a week since Dell Enterprise Forum Australia, and I’ve now had some time to process everything I learned. In short, Dell needs to reset and start again. No One Hates Dell Halfway through the event I realised something: no one really hates Dell. I know… Read More
I was at the recent Melbourne launch of Pure Storage, and a single word permeated much of the conversation: cost. It was a central part of their pitch that day. Pure were spruiking their gear as being at cost-parity with spinning disk for “effective storage”, meaning after their special-sauce software… Read More
I’m on a mission, apparently. The mission is to completely transform IT from a secretive cabal of techno-wizards pursuing their own ends into a collaborative business function that acts as a catalyst. I didn’t choose it so much as it chose me, and it hasn’t been without some personal cost.… Read More
This post catalogues the extent of the corporate largesse directed at me during TFD9, in the interests of full disclosure. All journalism is biased, but you’re at least supposed to educate your reader about your biases so they can take them into account. You can try for objectivity, sure, but… Read More
Solarwinds did a fantastic job, and are another example of a company that really understands their marketing strategy and their brand. Denny LeCompte clearly explains how Solarwinds is different before even three minutes had elapsed in his presentation. They’re not dealing with the bleeding edge problems of Fortune 50 companies.… Read More
Neverfail have a new product coming out, their first in 12 years. It’s called IT Continuity Architect, and it’s a backup and DR quality assurance tool. What does it do? You tell it what kinds of systems you have and how important they are (usually done with Service Level Agreements,… Read More
There’s so much good stuff to talk about with Infinio, I’m almost at a loss for where to begin. Infinio Accelerator I’ll start with the product Infinio have launched: their NAS accelerator for virtual machines. It’s so obviously a good thing I’m amazed it doesn’t already exist. I mean, think… Read More
Dell presented a session on their Data Protection products and the roadmap for them. My overall impression was that, like Dell as a whole, there are a lot of products in the portfolio, and it’s not clear which one is for what. Dell showed a slide about here in the… Read More
Veeam, like Nutanix, are Tech Field Day veterans, so I expect a smooth presentation. I’ve heard a bit about Veeam for some years now, though not in great detail. What I heard was generally glowing praise for its capabilities in backing up VMware environments. Unencumbered by issues of backwards-compatibility, or… Read More
