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
Commvault are well known for their backup and recovery product: Simpana, as well they should be. From all reports, it’s a great product. I’ve not used it personally, largely because my consulting clients have mostly been bureaucratic old enterprises who installed Legato or NetBackup 15 years ago and have stuck… 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
Nutanix had a bit of a rough start to their presentation. They were asked to provide a bit of background on the company, which is fine, but the main issue I had was with the length. My impression was that Greg Smith didn’t understand his audience well enough, or maybe… 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
Veeam showed us their Backup and Replication product, Version 7. Now, Veeam is a virtualisation centric company. They deal with multiple hypervisors, but they don’t deal with physical. Veeam knows this, and does this deliberately. Doug Hazelman made this clear in his presentation. So what’s to like about Veeam? Quite… 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
I have a lot of experience with performance and capacity management. Some years ago, a colleague and I got fed up with the failings of enterprise tools like Concord eHealth, and also the limitations of low-end tools like MRTG. We wanted something that was easy to use like MRTG, but… Read More
