Those who follow me on Twitter were treated to the perspective of my new travelling companion, Blue Cow, during my trip to VeeamON. This week, I continue the tradition. Alas, Blue Cow was not allowed to join me, so Clarence the horse has come with me instead. Clarence is a… Read More
Here is my traditional disclosure post for the inaugural VeeamON conference. Overall All flights, accommodation, and hotel transfers were paid for by Veeam. I stayed at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, which was the conference venue. It’s a very nice hotel, though I’ve not seen any other hotels in… 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
Diablo Technologies are the second half of the SanDisk ULLtraDIMM partnership. They came up with the technologies for what they call Memory Channel Storage: using the memory interface from the CPU to talk to persistent storage more-or-less directly, instead of going over a storage subsystem. We covered the reasons for… Read More
For the first time ever, I’ll be at VMworld US this year, covering the event for iTNews.com.au. Well, assuming the US government lets me have an official journalist style I-visa after my interview in a couple of weeks. Since I’ll be getting paid (freelance, so only for what I actually… Read More
The centralised command-and-control method doesn’t work at scale. Many people have discovered this independently, from the Romans to the Chinese. It’s just not humanly- (or even computerly-) possible to track that many interdependent variables and make smart decisions. To manage a vast array of components, a central apparatus needs to… Read More
Getting a clear picture of what XtremeIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few rewatches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to figure out how it works. XtremeIO ‘X-bricks’ are dual-active controllers connected to 25 eMLC flash… Read More
Scale Computing know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well. The founders have built a system that is just what they wanted when they worked for mid-sized firms in the middle of America. I had a couple of informal conversations about Scale with Silicon Valley types over the… Read More
PernixData FVP, in its upcoming version (currently in private beta) has some intriguing possibilities as part of an ecosystem of products, and it adds one of the big features I asked for in my prep post. What I like most about FVP is its non-disruptive nature. Subject to a few… Read More
Veeam have a long history of presenting at various Field Days, as you can see here. I wrote about them for Tech Field Day 9, in a prep post here, and in a review here. Going on past performances, we can expect that Veeam will be presenting some sort of… Read More
