TFD10 Prep: Rubrik
Rubrik want to bring hyper-converged infrastructure to secondary storage. Read More
Rubrik want to bring hyper-converged infrastructure to secondary storage. 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
TFD10 Prep: Diablo Technologies have a couple of products now, but what are they for? Read More
Justin will attend Tech Field Day 10 in Austin, TX on 3-5 February 2016. Read More
Justin chats to Veeam about what it takes to found a successful software company, and how to appear to the enterprise and SMB customers at the same time. Read More
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
As part of Data Field Day 1, we spoke to a company called HGST. A team from HGST actually invented the hard drive back in the 1950s, not far from their current office in Silicon Valley. They’ve been bought a sold a few times, most recently to Western Digital, and… Read More
My biggest challenge with what Cloudera presented was that they tried to cram in too much into a single presentation. It was a grab bag of features, rather than a real explanation of why anyone should care. Part of this is because Apache Hadoop, on which Cloudera is based, is… Read More
DFD1 was relatively light on corporate largesse in terms of volume, but as you’d know by now, I like to keep track of what I’m given that can (and does!) influence my thinking about whoever gave me the gift. I’ve written about this before, and I don’t try for totally… Read More
Clearly I’ve done something to anger the gods of travel, somehow. Or just been unlucky. Specifically, it was probably some sort of wind god—maybe Njord, or perhaps Aeolus—because it was so windy in Sydney on Monday that the airport was only using one runway. The Qantas pilot did a wonderful… Read More