TFD10 Prep: Dell
What will the Dell presentation at TFD10 hold? I’m hoping for cloud services and storage updates, and an overview of the integration possibilities. Read More
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The Eigencast 007: HDS Goes All Flash
Justin talks to Greg Knieriemen from HDS about the new HDS A-series all flash arrays, and the role of analysts in helping customers to make decisions. Read More
DFD1 Prep Post: Hedvig
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to write a bunch of preparation posts on the company’s I’ll be seeing at each Tech Field Day event. With Data Field Day 1 just around the corner (next week! Ah!) it’s about time I wrote up a little something about… Read More
Dell Solutions Tour 2015
I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More
NTAPInsight with Clarence the Horse
Those who follow me on Twitter were treated to the perspective of my new travelling companion, Blue Cow, during my trip to VeeamON. This week, I continue the tradition. Alas, Blue Cow was not allowed to join me, so Clarence the horse has come with me instead. Clarence is a… Read More
Tech Company Breakups
Multiple tech companies are in the news lately because they’re splitting off parts of themselves. HP, Symantec, and eBay are all splitting off major sections, and there’s speculation about EMC splitting off VMware, and maybe Cisco doing something similar. There was also a conversation about the topic on this week’s… Read More
SolidFire
Dave from SolidFire was impressive. He had a quiet confidence that comes from knowing exactly what he’s doing. He knows his own product very well, which he should, but he also knows a lot about competitor products, and the market in generally. He was able to talk about all of… Read More
EMC XtremIO
This is my review of XtremIO based on EMC’s presentation at Storage Field Day 5. Getting a clear picture of what XtremIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few re-watches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to… Read More
XtremIO Offers Xtrem Tradeoffs
Getting a clear picture of what XtremeIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few rewatches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to figure out how it works. XtremeIO ‘X-bricks’ are dual-active controllers connected to 25 eMLC flash… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: EMC
Welcome to the first instalment of my now-traditional pre-Tech Field Day event prep work! First up is EMC. I’ve picked EMC first for two reasons: firstly, they’re one of only two publicly listed companies we’ll be talking to as part of SFD5, and secondly, because they’re huge and have many… Read More