SFD9 Prep: Intel
Intel are investing heavily in data center tech and the Internet of Things. What will they show us at SFD9? Read More
Intel are investing heavily in data center tech and the Internet of Things. What will they show us at SFD9? Read More
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
This week sees me back in Austin, TX for DellWorld 2015. I accepted the invitation months before the Dell/EMC news broke, so it’s going to be very interesting to see what this year is like. I travel there as a guest of Dell, so that may well colour my impression of… Read More
Hopefully you’ve had time to read my blog on getting VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vRO) running on Ravello Systems cloud platform. Since I recently took delivery of a Scale Computing cluster (kindly gifted to me by the lovely people at Scale, thanks @bocanuts) and I’ve been playing with image installs… Read More
The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015 was held last week, and was a great success. The vibe on the day was wonderful, and aside from the usual niggles that always crop up, attendees and sponsors alike told me they enjoyed the day. Numbers were slightly down on last year, but it… Read More
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
SimpliVity make a series of “hyper-convered” arrays. The devices are a mix of commodity CPU, RAM, and storage in a single OmniCube with a special bit of custom hardware: a PCIe card dubbed the OmniCube Accelerator. This custom hardware offloads the high-overhead calculations required for things like compression and de-duplication… Read More
This week I’m headed over to HP Discover in Barcelona, Spain, thanks to the magnanimity of Calvin Zito. I’m looking forward to hearing from HP directly, because I don’t know as much about them as I once did. There’s so much going on in technology at the moment that it’s… Read More
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
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