TFD10 Prep: VMTurbo
VMTurbo brings manufacturing style automation to IT operations. And it’s about time! Read More
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VFD4 Prep: VMTurbo
VMTurbo appear to make a piece of fancy monitoring software that uses “free-market principles” to make optimisation decisions. All the resources in your data centre are modelled as sources of supply and are demanded by other parts of the data centre. CPUs are basically raw ‘compute’ commodity, as is storage.… Read More
Disclosure, TFD10 Edition
Justin discloses the corporate largesse flung at him during Tech Field Day 10 and TECH.unplugged Austin 2016. Read More
Tech Field Day 10
I was invited to Austin, Texas, USA for Tech Field Day 10, in February 2016. I announced my attendance in this post. Pre-work Here are my pre-work blog posts leading up to the event, where I did some research on each of the companies to get a bit of an… Read More
VMworld 2015 Disclosure Post
Welcome to the latest in what has become a tradition of disclosure posts after major events where vendors attempt to sway my opinion with gifts of dubious usefulness. This one covers VMworld US 2015, and I’m also including vExpert type schwag that is organised to be delivered around the time… Read More
Tech Companies With An OPiuM Problem, Part 3
If you haven’t read them already, check out Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. We discussed the rule of thumb for investor returns of 10-20x money raised in the first post in this series. Let’s have a look at some numbers that we actually know to see if… Read More
VFD4 Prep: Scale Computing
I first met Scale Computing at Storage Field Day 5, and I was impressed. Their gear is ideally suited for small- to mid-size companies, often without oodles of bandwidth to the Internet to use cloud based services, and with on-site systems that need to be controlled, like manufacturers. The HC3x… Read More
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Virtualization Field Day 4
I’ve been invited to Virtualization Field Day 4, to be held in Austin, TX from 14 Jan 2015 to 16 Jan 2015. Pre-Work Here are my posts leading up to the event: Announcement: I’m Going to VFD4! VFD4 Prep: VMTurbo VFD4 Prep: StorMagic VFD4 Prep: Platform9 Previous Events You might… Read More
Announcement: I’m Going to VFD4!
I get to go to another Tech Field Day event! Yay! <glee mode> Stephen, Tom, Claire and the crew have kindly invited me to attend Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin, TX in January 2015. The invitations only just went out, so the details are still coming through about who… Read More