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
Whew! Tech Field Day 9 is finished, and I’m exhausted. It’s going to take some time to mentally process everything that we discovered before I’ll be able to really write it up well. Key Points The things that most stick out for me at the moment are: Dell – There’s… Read More
Made it! I’ve arrived in Austin for Tech Field Day 9 after a journey of 14,330 kilometres, or 8,904 miles. I left home at 6am, and arrived at the hotel at 8pm local Austin time. That’s about 29 hours travel time. There was “weather” in Dallas, so my last plane… 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
Nutanix are old hands at Tech Field Day, so I expect them to be giving a polished performance. Again, Nutanix are privately held, so no spreadsheets. Nutanix Products Nutanix sell a Virtual Computing Platform. I’ve not used their gear, so this post is all based on the research I’ve done… Read More
Neverfail are privately held, so no spreadsheets, alas. Their core product is their Heartbeat Failover Engine. It’s Windows only, which is a shame, but hey, it’s a big enough ecosystem to make money. From the research I’ve done so far, it appears to be a software watchdog that uses an… Read More
Infinio are launching at Tech Field Day on June 20, so there’s very little information available about them to write about. There are no financials, so I can’t do the spreadsheet thing. Their launch product is a “software-only solution to NAS performance in virtualized environments” according to their press release.… Read More
It’s SolarWinds’ turn to run through the eigenmagic spreadsheets of wonder! Holy Cash Cow, Batman! Gross margin over 92%. That’s right. Net Income over 30% of sales revenue. 30%! It’s like SolarWinds have a money tree that fruits all the year round. But what about growth? How does an average… Read More
As I mentioned in the update to my last Commvault post, I found some extra public financial data after I’d finished writing that post. It sheds some additional light on the company that helps to test what I wrote last time. Here’s the DuPont breakdown for financial years 2006 to… Read More
I’ve looked at Dell a couple of times already, once before Dell World 2012, and once after the go-private thing was announced. I went back and read over my previous stuff, so you probably should to, because I’ll be referring to it. Since we last looked at the company, Dell’s… Read More
