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Cisco Wants Nexus Dashboard To Be Yet Another Single Pane of Glass

By Justin Warren 4 June 2021 4 June 2021 Network, Software, Tech Field Day

A network switch with cables connected, and green status lights illuminated.

Cisco wants Nexus Dashboard to be your NOC’s One Stop Operator Shop, but Justin has his doubts. Read More

Disclosure: Cisco Live Melbourne 2019

By Justin Warren 13 March 2019 13 March 2019 Disclosure, Events

Justin discloses the stuff given to him as part of attending Cisco Live Melbourne 2019. Read More

CFD1 Prep: Cisco

By Justin Warren 11 September 2016 11 September 2016 Cloud, Events, IT, Network, Startups, Tech Field Day, Virtualization

Cisco have a range of cloudy containery things to talk about at CFD1, including Metapod, CliQr and container networking. Read More

Dell Solutions Tour 2015

By Justin Warren 16 April 2015 16 April 2015 General, IT, Marketing

I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More

VFD4 Prep: SimpliVity

By Justin Warren 12 January 2015 12 January 2015 Events, Server, Software, Storage, Tech Field Day, Virtualization

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

NTAPInsight with Clarence the Horse

By Justin Warren 27 October 2014 27 October 2014 Marketing, Network, Software, Storage

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

Tech Company Breakups

By Justin Warren 18 October 2014 18 October 2014 Business Management, Economics, Finance, IT, MBA, Network, Server, Software, Storage

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

Cisco ACI and Lossy Control

By Justin Warren 27 May 2014 27 May 2014 Business Management, IT, Marketing, Network, Software

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

CiscoLive MEL quick wrap

By Justin Warren 21 March 2014 21 March 2014 Economics, IT, Marketing

I’ve just finished up a packed week dominated by Cisco’s CiscoLive! conference in Melbourne, Australia. I met a lot of customers, executives, and technical folk from Cisco, learned a bunch and had some fun. In the background I’m developing some stuff about the event that will hopefully get published in… Read More

Coming Soon: Oracle Data Appliance

By Justin Warren 26 October 2010 26 October 2010 Business Management, IT, Marketing, Sales, Software, Storage

I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More

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