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
I have a theory about IT people, related to Not Invented Here syndrome. It’s Thrill Of Discovery syndrome, or TODS. TODS is a product of ignorance. Unlike Not Invented Here, where solutions from elsewhere are actively rejected simply by virtue of being Not Invented Here, TODS occurs because people remain… Read More
The SNIA BlogFest 2 event has brought some important issues for IT infrastructure into sharp relief. Internal IT, at least as we have come to know it, is doomed. What will emerge from the wreckage will be an entirely different beast. There will be a great deal of collateral damage,… Read More
On June 21, the US FBI seized several racks of computing equipment at a hosting provider. The hosting provider was leasing blades to a company, DigitalOne, who are based in Switzerland. According to the New York Times, one of DigitalOne’s customers (information about which one has not been released) were… Read More
Check out this most excellent robot that balances on a ball. I particularly like the ‘passive assistance’ mode that provides an omni-directional wheelbarrow, and when multiple robots combine, an omni-directional omni-barrow. Or trolley. Of course, this excellent robot can still be improved. By making it out of Lego. The future… Read More
Whew. It’s been a busy few months with non-eigenmagic related work. I just found some time to hack together some updates for SCM that I’ve been wanting for a while, and it came together surprisingly quickly. More detail is over here on the seafelt blog. The short version is that… Read More
Last week I had quite a shock: The Australian domestic air travel experience is dramatically better than the US experience. I’ve heard various people complain about it, and it seemed to be much the same stuff as we get here: the security theatre, queuing, delayed flights, hassles and pain. Well… Read More
Who Cares? You don’t have to care about the difference. No one is forcing you to. The thing is, if you don’t care about the difference between a screwdriver and a paintbrush, you may find painting your house quite a challenge. I’ve seen plenty of examples of clients treating solutions… Read More
